Reviews tagging 'Pedophilia'

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire

3 reviews

bdombi's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

1.0

This book is one of the worst I have read in a long time. The dialogue is clunky, the characters never stick around long enough to get attached to, and there were far too many graphic descriptions of things that did not need to be described (including a human character being sexually violated by a sentient Tiger). The author constantly sexualized children in a way that the adult characters were not. He also made frequent references to “piss”, “urination”, and “wetness”. 

I truly wish that I had never purchased this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Pedophilia, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Rape

littleyellowfangirl's review against another edition

Fetishization of inappropriate content

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Animal death, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Incest, Racism, Slavery, Religious bigotry, Racial slurs, and Stalking

itry's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

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

0.25

Tw: murder, debauchery, sex, cheating, political intrigue, slavery, torture, pedophelia, rape. The last two being extremely prominent and occuring more than once??? Because why not i guess????
Also general depressing tone cus its a tragedy through and through

Toto i don't think we're in kansas anymore

So..... i read the book because i liked thw musical and was like hey ill like this
Welll
I didnt dislike it but i have no idea how the musical became so different from this
As a book it was interesting but the pacing felt a bit off and the time skips werent handled the best
Otherwise as a guilty pleasure, it was enjoyable
Im not gonna read the sequels though because this was depressing holy moly

Read through audiobook

Update: literally had through dissociation forgotten my dislike for the book and the,,,,,,,, y'all know what parts bothered me if y'all have read it and if y'all haven't read it, don't. Disgusting. Worse than attack on titan the mangas one horrifying scene that i try to actively block out of my head but that memory stays lol

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Toxic friendship, Trafficking, Sexism, Mental illness, Body horror, Animal cruelty, Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Racism, War, Toxic relationship, Ableism, Pregnancy, Murder, Misogyny, Medical trauma, Medical content, Kidnapping, Infidelity, Hate crime, Gore, Gaslighting, Genocide, Classism, Abandonment, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, Death, Death of parent, Colonisation, Bullying, Animal death, Chronic illness, Child abuse, and Body shaming

Minor: Deportation and Slavery