Reviews tagging 'Pedophilia'

A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham

15 reviews

theyellowbrickreader's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Drug abuse, and Murder

Moderate: Pedophilia

queenblife's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

5.0

This was another amazingly well written book, but beware the trigger warnings. The storyline is centered around Chloe, who is someone trying to live outside of the shadows of her past, and her family ties. I sense a pattern of types of books I like to read (but I've never personally been through any of these triggers/events so that's something for me to think on later). Something about the past seems familiar and it's something she's put out of her mind, until she can't ignore it anymore. She moves through the rest of the book trying to uncover anything to be helpful to the events in the present. I don't want to give any spoilers but it's worth the read. From one booknerd to another, Happy Reading!

tw: emotional abuse, physical abuse, pedophilla, suicide, missing children

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Suicide, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

shannnne_reads_words's review

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Child death, Suicide attempt, and Murder

Minor: Gun violence, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Self harm, Sexual content, Stalking, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, and Injury/Injury detail

taelights's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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

3.75

This book had so many fun and unexpected twists I absolutely loved it. I had thought I figured it out at about 50% in and had two theories I was really leaning towards and just when I thought one of them was it the last twists slapped me so hard out of nowhere. 

I almost gave this book 4 stars due to me being genuinely shocked by the ending but I have settled on 3.75 because I found the main character often annoying me. I thought a lot of her decisions were very dumb and dangerous plus like I get that she has trauma from her childhood but that doesn't excuse her actions or dangerous and illegal practices when it comes to taking pills. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Physical abuse, Stalking, Suicide, Misogyny, Suicide attempt, Sexism, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Medical content

Moderate: Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Rape, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

Minor: Miscarriage and Pregnancy

pial's review

It's boring and somewhat predictable. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Death, and Mental illness