Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Playground by Aron Beauregard

101 reviews

alexlouise97's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Animal death, Bullying, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Child abuse, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Classism, Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, Torture, Child death, Violence, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Rape, Body shaming, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Toxic friendship, Kidnapping, and Pedophilia

readingsun's review

Gross, clunky exposition and bad writing. Gross and explicit for the shock factor AND had extreme CSA and child abuse 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Vomit, Sexual assault, and Child death

anni_ly22's review

Bad writing and terrible plot. The female villain was not written well at all. Very misogynistic 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Death of parent, Religious bigotry, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Blood, Body horror, Torture, Violence, Death, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Incest, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Abandonment, and Mental illness

elioot's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Wow did this book not disappoint in many ways. I won't lie and pretend I didn't see rumors on booktok and wanted to see it for myself how bad it could be and it was true. 'The Scene' was definitely disgusting but reading on it does end up playing a major part in motives. The book itself felt like one of the Saw movies but done with children instead. Speaking of characters I really do think that the characters designed well. There really was no doubt that basically every character had their own unique personality minus the proclaimed twins but that was there shtick. It also was definitely a horror book start to finish but also played into some interesting ideas that many people don't think about. Finally without spoiling the ending turned out super symbolic to the point that it was like the perfect cherry on top.  Overall a great read that deserves more appreciation! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest and Sexual assault

sabrina_the_alien's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, Adult/minor relationship, Vomit, Murder, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Torture, Gaslighting, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Grief, Classism, Gore, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Incest, Medical trauma, Rape, Body horror, Bullying, Death, Domestic abuse, Blood, Child abuse, Excrement, Medical content, and Mental illness

vllxllx's review

I didn't like the feeling I got every-time I picked it up :(

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Sexual assault, Incest, Physical abuse, Child abuse, and Sexual violence

emmataylor173's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Sexual assault, Torture, Blood, Sexual content, and Child abuse

india_nalani07's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gore, and Sexual assault

This is definitely a one time read.

bennifersbody's review

challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

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

3.25

This book is incredibly dark, disturbing and twisted. It’s definitely for more hardcore horror fans who feel like they can handle some truly awful imagery and situations.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Domestic abuse, Murder, Pedophilia, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Child abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Vomit, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Animal death, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, and Torture

zyderm's review

funny medium-paced

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

If you’ve heard all of the recommendations for this book, ignore them. I went into this book knowing nothing about it aside from it was well recommended. 

I ended up with a copy of this book from my sisters colleague, who is a published author and used to work at penguin publishing. She raved about this and called it a pinnacle of modern horror. A complete load of shit. 

Any bad reviews you read about this are true, including the authors particularly misogynistic writing. His blurb at the back states he has a wife, but I refuse to believe that since this reads like he’s never touched a woman in his life, and in fact seems like he’s actively disgusted by women’s personal parts. 

The authors writing is exceptionally juvenile, and were it not for the subject matter, his writing combined with the illustrations included would lead me to believe this was ya. He also has odd wording choices “a single tear pissed out of his eye” that he uses consistently and that quickly became irritating. 

The worst part is I think the author may have actually been trying to write a mature book that was disgusting and at times clearly intended to be emotional and impactful. However everything comes off extremely comical, the end had me laughing, the rest I was amused or annoyed by. Writing for these characters is non existent. I wouldn’t recommend this to anybody unless you actively like schlocky garbage. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Confinement, Excrement, Infertility, Sexual assault, Child death, Death of parent, Bullying, Gore, Grief, Incest, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Torture, Blood, Gun violence, Misogyny, Rape, Classism, Domestic abuse, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Violence, Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Toxic relationship, and Vomit