Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

A Cosmology of Monsters by Shaun Hamill

25 reviews

plantainicus's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Homophobia

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

ghostriver's review

dark sad slow-paced

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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Homophobia and Suicide

natnoble18's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Adult/minor relationship

aparker89's review

adventurous dark emotional sad 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Outing, Toxic relationship, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Chronic illness, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Stalking, Bullying, Cancer, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, Adult/minor relationship, Gore, Pregnancy, Terminal illness, Pedophilia, Lesbophobia, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical content, and Mental illness

sylvestra's review

dark mysterious tense fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Cancer, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Lesbophobia and Sexual content

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis and Pedophilia

tibbarasden's review

dark medium-paced

4.0

Very meandering and not what I expected based on the synopsis. The synopsis had me expecting the horror attraction and monster aspect to be a more central focus of the story. Really, the focus was more on this family and Noah's perspective, specifically. Though the monster is a big part of Noah's life. That said, I think the synopsis did what it could without spoiling the story. Also, why the constant pop culture references! That is a personal pet peeve, and so I try not to judge too harshly. There were even some points where I thought it worked well for the story and was a clever nod for those who get it. Still, even knowing my personal grievance, I felt it was a little over the top. That said, the story really comes together in the end, which I found enjoyable if not mind-blowing. My favorite parts were the Turner sequences. Loved that aspect.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Death, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Car accident, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

dpsmom's review

dark mysterious sad fast-paced

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

3.5

More geared like Lovecraft horror than Stephen King horror. Weird and a bit uncomfortable in spots. Not an overly complex read, making it quick to get through. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Kidnapping, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide attempt, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, and Grief

a_novel_craving's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Pregnancy, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Car accident, Lesbophobia, Cancer, Child death, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

kittykaz's review against another edition

This was written by A Man. And he kept referencing Lovecraft.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cancer, Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Car accident, and Death

siobhanward's review

dark medium-paced

1.5

 I really wanted to like this book - the story was cool, it was well-developed and clever, but man was it problematic. I'm just going to tag the rest of my review for spoilers, since it's all pretty spoiler-y, but mostly I'm just diving into various things that strike me as pretty jarringly problematic.

Firstly, we have another lovely case of a queer character attempting suicide as a result of their sexuality. Sure, she doesn't succeed, but she then buries her true sexuality and marries a man. She does eventually get a better ending, but I don't really think that this was needed. It didn't actually add a whole lot.

Second, all the female characters seemed to do was be miserable. Every woman had something (or multiple) horrible things happen, and honestly not really in a horror way, just in a sad way. Abuse, assault, family trauma, etc. and the only real purpose was to give Noah a plot.

Finally, the whole story is basically one about grooming - that's what the plot really comes down to, and it's never really addressed in terms of how horrific it is. I agree with other reviewers that if Noah had been a female character being groomed, people would have been much more upset, but Hamill gets away with it because Noah is a boy.

Going into this I really thought that I might come out of it as a book that I could use as an alternative when people recommend House of Leaves , but while this book has a much better plot, there are just so many things that gave me bad vibes that I don't think I'll be recommending it... 

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Content Warnings

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