Reviews tagging 'Pedophilia'

My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

86 reviews

chainsawheartbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

“Who is to say that an object does not come with its own agenda?”

This was a lot of fun! It was such an easy read with small chapters and a fast pace, I didn’t realise how quickly I was flying through it. 😂

It’s definitely one of those books that I think you should go into without much detail as it gets revealed in such a good way, and Braithwaite’s writing was so beautiful, I need to check out more of her work. 

It does beg the question, how far are you willing to go to help your sibling?!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Pedophilia

rariri's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Violence, and Blood

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Pedophilia

mgraceslay's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Fun and fast read. I didn't feel that it was especially deep, not shallow, but just not much to inspect or digest. Which is fine! Preferable actually after my last couple of reads.

Anyway, good slump breaker if you need one. Like I said, it's face paced and the chapters are more like vignettes, none of them longer than 5-6 pages so it's really great for reading on the bus or train.





*SMALL SPOILER* 

I feel bad about it, but I didn't feel bad for Tade lol he was such a c*nt to Korede that it felt like a dose of (albeit uneven) karma hah

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Murder

Minor: Pedophilia, Sexism, and Sexual assault

khandid's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Infidelity and Grief

Minor: Pedophilia

hauntedantiqueshop's review against another edition

dark funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Reading this as the middle child of sisters… 😬 but no really, older sisters are actually just like that. Loyal to the very end, no matter what. I know I’d call my older sister and I know our little sister would call us. THAT BEING SAID!!

It really pulled me out of the fiction that Korede didn’t put hands on her sister. She should have beat the living fuck out of Ayoola. I don’t know a single older sister that didn’t beat their siblings on the regular, regardless of their personalities types.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Medical content, and Murder

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child abuse, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, and Trafficking

mtparish1's review against another edition

dark funny tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Pedophilia

coolfoolmoon's review against another edition

sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

No matter how much I hate the characters I always love when sisters sister. When sisters are sistering, I am sat. You have my full attention. I don't care if they're good or evil. I love them. Makes me wish I wasn't an only child, even if she was a serial killer! (I'm kidding but not really. Kinda.) Also based off the title alone I thought the book was gonna be set in New York lol

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Mental illness, Misogyny, Blood, and Medical content

Minor: Animal death, Drug use, Pedophilia, Police brutality, and Car accident

mal214's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Medical content and Death of parent

Minor: Bullying, Infidelity, Police brutality, and Classism

zulmiro's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, Racism, Police brutality, and Stalking

pacifickat's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Enjoyable shorter read that pulled me in from start to finish. I like that it was told largely through little vingetes from the sister Korede's first-person point of view. I liked the sprinkling of reveals throughout that flip your assumptions at every turn. The ending moved it from a decent 4 to solid 4.5 stars for me. 

The audio narration by Adepero Oduye was brilliant and helped me better connect with the setting and culture of the characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Blood, Murder, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Drug use, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, and Trafficking