Reviews tagging 'Incest'

Nefando by Mónica Ojeda

16 reviews

parap's review against another edition

dark sad slow-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Violence, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Self harm, Dysphoria, Sexual violence, and Body horror

Moderate: Physical abuse and Xenophobia

Minor: Drug use and Islamophobia

alixfitz0926's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.75

that was. a lot. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Rape, Child abuse, and Incest

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Violence

Minor: Xenophobia

xlizabeth's review against another edition

challenging dark fast-paced

4.75

This book was fucked up but I couldn’t stop reading, so well written. 

I will admit there were some paragraphs I had to skip because I couldn’t mentally handle them.

An incredibly brutal character study about suffering, trauma, and desires of some very very troubled young adults.

Check TWs. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Incest, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Child abuse, and Gore

Moderate: Drug abuse, Excrement, Gun violence, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Religious bigotry

readingwithgoose's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Animal death, Sexual assault, Rape, Physical abuse, Confinement, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Sexual content, and Blood

Moderate: Excrement and Mental illness

moss_martii's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual assault, Self harm, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Rape, Injury/Injury detail, Incest, Gore, and Child abuse

danidamico's review

1.0

No me gustó para nada. El terror que está hecho solo para shockear me parece aburrido, flojo e innecesario. En ningún momento sentí que hubiera una verdadera historia, algún tipo de profundidad o contenido más allá del horror en sí, de las ganas de repugnar al lector. Si vas a escribir sobre pedofilia más vale que esté justificado, que sea totalmente indispensable para el relato, como sucede por ejemplo en The Bluest Eye de Toni Morrison. Ojeda utiliza la pedofilia solamente para escandalizar, describiendo todo de manera tan asquerosamente gráfica que casi parece volverse una apología o un material pornográfico.

Las historias que se entrecruzan a lo largo de la novela nunca llegan a nada, nunca culminan ni se complementan, simplemente asistimos a una seguidilla interminable de violaciones, agresiones y abusos sexuales, escenas super detalladas de pedofilia, abuso intrafamiliar, automutilaciones, fantasías sexuales repugnantes. Y lo peor es que no sirven para nada, no generan ningún sentido de totalidad al terminar la novela, ni siquiera es como "El niño proletario" de Osvaldo Lamborghini: un cuento horroroso que sí tiene un propósito, una eficacia, una razón de ser.

Si hubiera sabido lo innecesariamente explícito que es el libro nunca lo hubiera escogido y si no fuera para el club de lectura definitivamente lo hubiera dejado sin terminar.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence