Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

11 reviews

seamoonstone's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Sexual content

Moderate: Homophobia, Gun violence, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Abortion

gentleprocrastination's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, Suicide, Grief, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Terminal illness, Sexual content, Eating disorder, and Child death

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Antisemitism, Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Medical content, Pregnancy, Cancer, Abortion, Gun violence, and Police brutality

yearofthesnk's review

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Gun violence

Moderate: Alcoholism and Blood

Minor: Pregnancy

jarnbooks's review

emotional inspiring sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

I liked this book. Not initially, I hated  the first 100 pages because of the EXPLICIT descriptions of sex but I enjoyed the character. The story of the Gold siblings makes you think about if you want to live or survive and how much time we really have to do it. Each sibling has their own story to tell that each give a different lesson in a different time period that makes them feel real. There were some character decisions that I thought were a little quick but it adds to the story in the moment. There is a character for everyone to have some relation to. Each character is so strong in their passions and it’s genuinely interesting to see how each of the siblings go about their lives and the time they have left. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Pedophilia, Death, Child death, Drug use, and Alcohol

Moderate: Toxic relationship, War, Racism, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Alcoholism, Cursing, and Chronic illness

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Stalking, Racial slurs, Pregnancy, Vomit, Infertility, Homophobia, Car accident, Cancer, Bullying, Antisemitism, Abortion, Abandonment, and Gun violence

Most of these are in Simon and Klara’s parts which you can pretty much skip as the important parts are mentioned in the other parts.

lbbelly's review

dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Animal cruelty, Terminal illness, Alcoholism, Mental illness, Eating disorder, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Grief, Islamophobia, War, Torture, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual harassment, and Homophobia

Minor: Abortion and Adult/minor relationship

writefromthepage's review

I should’ve known from the first page this would be a yikes read. The descriptions used when taking about a 13 year old girl who just reached puberty made my skin crawl. But I gave the book a chance because I was so excited for it. But was hit with the next chapter about an16 year old boy having sex with a man 20 YEARS OLDER than him. And the book treated it like it was fine by indulging in graphic sexual details. I had to remind myself he was 16 because the author wrote it like any other smut scene. Not an adult taking advantage of a minor.! I’ve only seen one review pointing this out. I wish I knew this going in because it was really triggering. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Body horror

_babysinblack's review

emotional hopeful reflective sad 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Terminal illness

Minor: Abortion, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Grief, Homophobia, Police brutality, and Pregnancy

bi_n_large's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Self harm, Sexual content, Gun violence, Death, Animal cruelty, Racism, Terminal illness, Homophobia, Medical content, and Mental illness

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Abortion

cammiem8's review

emotional mysterious reflective 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? Yes

4.0

I read this for a book club and couldn’t help but read ahead. The first section about the life and death of the youngest sibling in the family is the strongest emotionally, though there are things to think about throughout the book. The third section is the weakest. The author also uses a lot of very strange and seemingly out of place sexual descriptions, which might be a turn off for readers. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Mental illness, and Suicide

Moderate: Hate crime, Medical content, Police brutality, Alcoholism, Terminal illness, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

ok7a's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Abortion, Suicide, and Sexual content