Reviews tagging 'Pedophilia'

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

235 reviews

bluemaiden's review against another edition

3.0

reflective tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism

Minor: Pedophilia, Sexual assault

nukie19's review against another edition

3.25

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Forced institutionalization, Excrement, Antisemitism, Medical content, Grief, Alcohol

jt793's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Hate crime, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Classism

Minor: Infertility, Alcohol

kat_osta's review against another edition

1.0

challenging dark reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This book was not my favorite. The writing was overly descriptive and made way too much fluff. The chapters did not flow together well, and each scene change felt very abrupt. There were way too many characters to keep track of, and not enough time given to the MCs. New characters were being introduced even in the last few chapters, which was obnoxious.

All of the deaths were underwhelming and written in a confusing way — two of them were beloved characters, and I didn’t even feel sad when they died because I simply didn’t realize what happened. The third death was so incredibly random, and didn’t feel like justice at all.

Read the trigger warnings, and be prepared for it to be worse than what you’re anticipating.

Overall, from start to finish, the story itself was beautiful, but challenging. Some of the subject matter made me put the book down and walk away for a few days. But I liked the ending. I just didn’t like the way it was written, and probably won’t revisit this author.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia

chewy__stuff's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Hate crime, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Forced institutionalization, Antisemitism, Grief, Religious bigotry

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Infertility, Mental illness, Excrement, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Death of parent

sloanefg's review against another edition

2.5

challenging emotional sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement

Moderate: Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Antisemitism, Death of parent

bibliophilistine's review against another edition

4.0

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Ableism, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Antisemitism

Minor: Death, Infertility, Violence

gingerfoot's review against another edition

3.25

tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Forced institutionalization

sweetpotatosamm's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief

Moderate: Racism, Sexual assault, Excrement

Minor: Child abuse, Pedophilia, Death of parent

aroush's review against another edition

4.75

emotional inspiring tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Xenophobia

Moderate: Pedophilia, Rape