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Saving Noah by Lucinda Berry

31 reviews

cewhouser7405's review

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Grief, Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Suicide, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Physical abuse, Self harm, Medical content, Pedophilia, Rape, and Suicidal thoughts

leahpote's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, Incest, Hate crime, Rape, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

turntsnacko27's review

challenging emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

I started reading this book knowing it would be sad. Although the ending is fairly predictable, reading it was extremely emotional. There are still a few good big plot twists that completely changed my outlook on parts throughout the whole book by the time they were revealed. 
The last few paragraphs of the final chapter had me needing to take breaks to take a breath and get a hold of myself to continue, they were so deeply emotional and a major conflict of feelings. 
Overall, incredible book. Only reason I give it slightly less than 5 stars is because I felt the first 1/3 ish to be a tad slower with lots of flashbacks and family history during a time I wanted to know more about the current timeline story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts, Medical trauma, Grief, Physical abuse, Suicide, Mental illness, and Vomit

Minor: Incest, Rape, and Child abuse

katiearcher's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

4.75

How unconditional is your love for your child? Saving Noah tests the boundary of human empathy and how far a mother will go for her child, in spite of everything. It made me angry, sad, and confused, as I hurt for Noah and because of Noah. Not a five star because of some of the more graphic descriptions of abuse and illness. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Excrement, Incest, Vomit, Forced institutionalization, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Bullying, Adult/minor relationship, and Child death

emderosa's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse and Pedophilia

Moderate: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Medical content, Death, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Sexual content, Vomit, and Mental illness

chrissylue's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.0

There wasn’t a lot of back story before you are in the thick of it. You go through the book kind of having this question hanging over everything; how is she going to save him? Parts of the story were predictable (dad scenario) especially at the end; but I was connected to the story because I sobbed at the end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Abandonment, and Grief

Moderate: Vomit, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Rape, and Physical abuse

Minor: Incest

princess_marie's review

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Suicide, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Suicide attempt, Violence, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Vomit, Blood, Death, Bullying, Grief, and Medical content

Minor: Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Animal cruelty, and Cancer

paperkindle's review against another edition

challenging dark fast-paced

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

3.0

This is a difficult book to review because of the subject. I felt his mother downplayed a lot of what he did. Saying things like "Noah’s case was the least serious. He was like the kid in treatment for smoking pot a few times surrounded by kids who shot heroin." And "Their (the girls) lives weren’t going to be ruined forever. They just weren’t. But, the world wouldn’t be satisfied until they’d annihilated him. He was more of a victim than those girls" SA has trauma on everyone, whether you're a kid or an adult. The ending explained a lot about Noah, I didn't see it coming. 

TW: rape, sexual assault, suicide attempt, suicidal thoughts, suicide, cancer, grief, violence, pedophilia

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, Incest, Suicidal thoughts, Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Child death, Drug use, Grief, Medical content, Physical abuse, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Rape and Vomit

heartfelthullabaloo's review

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.5

Maybe because I’m a boy mom of a 15 year old, but this story punched me right in the gut. How utterly devastating. How do you go your whole parenthood protecting them from predators to this? The whole thing was too real and devastating. I’m just gutted about it. I pray I never have to endure this reality past the pages of this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Abandonment, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Child death, Violence, Drug abuse, Death, and Bullying

Moderate: Violence, Sexual violence, Rape, Sexual assault, and Religious bigotry

hauntedantiqueshop's review

challenging dark fast-paced

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

0.5

Hey, quick question. What the fuck was this??

The mom was so fucking insufferable, oh my god. It’s “yes my son did something terrible but can you PLEASE get over it?” every other sentence. I feel like this book tried very hard to garner support and sympathy for pedophiles, even making light of the molestation and that does not sit right with me. Perhaps I’m a bit of an extremist but I do think they should all d*e 🤭 btw, I didn’t appreciate the twist. The dad being a secret pedophile when he could have just been normal and against pedophilia and utterly disgusted with his child? Lame and he should have k*lled himself too.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Rape, Pedophilia, Self harm, Bullying, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug use, Vomit, and Blood

Minor: Animal cruelty and Cancer

This entire book is about a pedophile, features a lot of brushing off/under reacting of the abuse, and almost victim blaming tbh.