Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Yes, Daddy by Jonathan Parks-Ramage

112 reviews

melanders_07's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Trafficking, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol

Minor: Violence and Stalking

conversion therapy

lear2696's review

dark emotional sad tense fast-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? It's complicated

3.5

It's a book that easily draws you in. I read this thing in a day. Maybe something good to read if you're in a reading slump. Please check trigger warnings though. Seemed to meander a little at the end and felt a little rushed but overall a good read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Sexual violence

horrorandscience's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Confinement, Homophobia, and Torture

Minor: Suicide

rachel_sf's review

dark tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Confinement, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, and Religious bigotry

qweenjaymes's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Homophobia

Truly didn’t expect this book to be what it is but I’m so happy to have experienced Jonah’s story. Fully about coming to terms with your trauma, I’d suggest that if you have any triggers please look up the warnings. Page #1 we are dealing with r*pe and the book really doesn’t let up from there… Parks-Ramage has shown he is quite skillful at getting to the emotion of a story and letting that be the driving force rather than merely distracting you with beautiful or polarizing things as a gag. This is one that should be experienced by anyone as it has the power to change your perspective on the world we live in.

a_stylish_bookworm's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.5

Wow!! I expected a thriller but this was more a contemporary fiction. It was a great story that explores a lot of subjects like rape, fame and privileged and religion. The story follows Jonah a struggling screenwriter/waiter that is trying to find success. He meets Richard, a rich older gay screenwriter, and his life is changed. I didn’t expect for the book to be so dark but it was well written. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

hameggs's review

dark sad medium-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Sexual assault

soljovis's review

challenging dark fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Religious bigotry, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Addiction, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

ibeforem's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

"The things we worship eat us alive."

Jonah starts out this story already full of trauma. His evangelical parents discovered he was gay and sent him to conversion therapy, which of course failed spectacularly. Now he is barely surviving in New York, waiting tables with his dreams of being a successful playwright one day. His first step in achieving that dream is to orchestrate a meeting between himself and successful playwright Richard Shriver. But when that meeting eventually leads to a summer on Richard's Hamptons compound as his boy-toy, Jonah gets a whole lot more than he bargained for.

This book went all sorts of places I wasn't expecting, and frankly I'm still thinking about it a month after I read it. I think it has a lot to say about the #metoo movement and the way victims can become perpetrators and perpetrators can become victims. Honestly, I would have given this 4 stars instead of 3 if it hadn't taken what felt like an off-course turn about 3/4 of the way through. The story finds its way back before the end, but that one turn felt extraneous.

Content warning: There is a lot of explicit sexual assault and violence in this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Violence

watchtower22's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Sexual assault