Reviews tagging 'Pedophilia'

Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson

28 reviews

psistillreadyou's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Child death, Violence, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Blood

Moderate: Sexual violence, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Rape, and Pedophilia

Minor: Homophobia, Vomit, and Suicide attempt

jaz_gets_literary's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful sad tense medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Bullying, Child abuse, Vomit, Gaslighting, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Abortion, Sexual assault, Confinement, Grief, and Murder

Minor: Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Infidelity, and Death of parent

on_your_raedar's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

The way I loved every second of this book. No spoilers but I actually really loved the ending. Seems to be a heated topic in the reviews but it really worked for me. This is the 3rd book I’ve read by TDJ and she is officially a read without question author of mine. Do be mindful of trigger warnings though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Grief, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Addiction, Child death, Bullying, Pregnancy, and Mental illness

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Murder, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Alcoholism, and Pedophilia

Minor: Lesbophobia, Death of parent, Drug use, Alcohol, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Sexual harassment

calamitywindpetal's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Gaslighting, Domestic abuse, Death, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Rape, Murder, Violence, Racism, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Medical trauma, Forced institutionalization, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, and Grief

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Blood, and Sexual content

Minor: Homophobia, Suicide attempt, Abortion, and Lesbophobia

mapleleaf_rag's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

Loved this book right until the little bit, and then hated it! The „twist“ was so infuriating! Good righting and good plot, got me hooked right From the start, but the twist just felt cheap and not well thought out. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Pregnancy, Murder, Physical abuse, Violence, and Mental illness

Moderate: Racism, Toxic friendship, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, and Rape

Minor: Pedophilia, Blood, Vomit, and Alcoholism

bedtimesandbooks's review against another edition

dark 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Grief, Infidelity, Murder, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Kidnapping, Abortion, Animal death, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Child death, and Child abuse

Moderate: Dementia

callikat's review

challenging dark sad 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

3.75

Wow what a rollercoaster! I love how complex all of the characters are, it really breaks you out of the mold thinking that a character is 100% guilty or innocent. I feel like it's really hard to get into the mindset (especially first person) of someone who has been so traumatized and abused, but she did an excellent job. You can really tell when there are holes in Mary's memory, and things that she doesn't fully understand/refuses to accept. I feel like it ended kind of abruptly, I would have liked more of a build-up before the crazy ending, but still a really good read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Bullying, and Child abuse

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Racism and Pedophilia

briana7's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexual content, Vomit, Abandonment, Addiction, Child death, Lesbophobia, Child abuse, Death, Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, and Bullying

eateat's review

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.25

Gdamn and so "Allegedly" ended with a bang.

In this book we follow a young convict, Mary, who was sentenced for the murder of a baby named Alyssa. We get flashbacks of her time in baby jail while we follow her current timeline in a group home for girls like her. At the moment the story is happening, she is digging back up Alyssa's case so as to prove that she was convicted wrongly. 

I must say I liked the book enough but the plot twist annoyed me so such. I get that it needed a little BANG! But my gosh do I hate the twist.

Ok other than that, I liked the characters. My favorite being her lawyer, Mrs Cora and her exam teacher person, Mrs Claire. I just love seeing women being given big roles and that is exactly what the author gave these 2. 

The story flows at a pretty ok pace but the switching of timelines might get a little confusing. 1 sec she's in her room, something big happens, and we've moved ahead in the plot and Mary is now walking the group home or something. It might be a little frustrating at 1st but it's easy to ignore once you get used to it as you don't stay in one scene for too long.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Child abuse, and Drug abuse

kamzan's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Child abuse, Murder, Violence, Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Death, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Mental illness