Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders by Neil Gaiman

9 reviews

bookishtraveler's review

I love Gaiman but this collection of short stories just kept getting darker and darker.  I stopped at the one with child sexual violence and abuse.  I might pick it up again but it came on the heels of dnfing "Earthlings" for the same reason.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Pedophilia, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Child abuse, Excrement, Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Body horror, Self harm, Sexual assault, Drug abuse, Death, Murder, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Drug use, Slavery, and Trafficking

bi_n_large's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Death

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Murder, and Pedophilia

Minor: Sexual content

iono's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

0.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Pedophilia, Forced institutionalization, Infidelity, Sexual content, Body horror, War, Death, and Murder

Minor: Incest, Rape, Misogyny, Trafficking, and Child death

mirlezen's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Pedophilia

naomi_k's review

adventurous dark mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Body horror, Gore, Murder, Death, Toxic relationship, Violence, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Sexual content

Minor: Cannibalism, Incest, Blood, Child death, Torture, Pedophilia, Cursing, Adult/minor relationship, and Child abuse

iarlais's review

adventurous dark emotional funny tense fast-paced

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

4.0

My first Gaiman read, and I was thoroughly impressed!

He's such a wonderfully slick writer that excels at drawing you into his worlds, in which many fascinating and horrible things reside.

Out of all the short stories in this collection I particularly enjoyed "The Sunbird", owing to the likability of the cast of characters and the intriguing mystery of Zebidaiah T. Crawcustle, who has one of the best names I've ever seen.

"October in the Chair" was also pretty fun, I get a great deal out of stories within stories.

There's also his poetry, which I found difficult to understand but liked nevertheless. 

Certainly a stellar introduction to the writer, I'd strongly reccommend it if you were looking to start with his stuff but not sure where to begin.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual content

cozylifewithabby's review against another edition

Love Gaiman; hate this!
See content warnings 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Rape, Forced institutionalization, Murder, Sexual content, and Sexual assault

aguattery's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.5

This book is a good mix of hits and misses. Some of the stories felt like shells of a story that needed to be fleshed out more. Some of the stories were too scary for my taste, some of them I just didn't get (maybe they were too deep or too subtle?). Oppositely, some of them were fantastic. I probably wouldn't read the whole thing again but I would definitely read select stories. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Cannibalism, Child death, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Child death and Sexual content

Minor: Abortion

miriam_mal's review against another edition

His writing is fairly graphic and grim, and I personally found “the problem with Susan” to be particularly uncalled for (as someone who loves narnia, I did not need to read that take on the lion and the witch).  He writes so much about sex, lust, grief, as well as monsters and death and even cannibalism at one point. It’s not a comfortable read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, and Cannibalism