Reviews tagging 'Pedophilia'

My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

104 reviews

harley_sage's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Violence, Gore, and Animal death

Moderate: Sexual assault, Pedophilia, and Child abuse

juliatindell's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative mysterious sad tense medium-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Suicide attempt, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Grief, Murder, and Gore

Moderate: Rape, Pedophilia, Child abuse, and Sexual assault

blacksphinx's review against another edition

dark informative mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Suicide, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Self harm

Moderate: Animal death, Rape, Sexual harassment, Child abuse, Vomit, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Pedophilia

Minor: Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, and Racism

lee_brahms's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Suicide attempt, Gore, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Cursing, Rape, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Incest, Animal death, Pedophilia, Alcoholism, Blood, Murder, and Self harm

Minor: Confinement, Vomit, Colonisation, and Fire/Fire injury

thexwalrus's review

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

1.75

when i picked this up, i was mostly concerned that the writing style wouldn’t be my cup of tea. i was shocked to find it was - however, the main character was very much not, and that made this book super hard to get through.

i have sympathy for jade - i understand why she is the way she is - but oh my god, i could not stand her. people are dying, jade, this isn’t a slasher film, there is no plot, have a fucking shred of empathy for a second and realize what’s going on. maybe i’m just too old to vibe with her - i read this at 28 going on 29 - but she is a teenager i would not have a high tolerance for. 

the story’s well-constructed and well-written, and i liked a lot of the characters! the ending felt extremely satisfying when it made sense - in those few, blissful paragraphs where i was able to figure out what was actually going on and what was imagined - and i loved watching jade grow into her own hero, as predictable as it was. but i would’ve liked this a LOT more if we didn’t have jade’s internal monologues to deal with. again: being a teenager in her shoes is hard. i was a teenager living with an abusive father. i get it. but i just did not vibe with her at all. 

also can we PLEASE stop using sexual assault as a "trope" in horror it doesn't need to happen and if it happens it needs to be handled better than this

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pedophilia, Sexual assault, and Rape

giannawarner's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

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

2.75

Honestly kind of overhyped in my opinion. I wish we had more slasher and less whatever 90% of this book was. I don’t recommend for people who get bored easily and like quick reads. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt and Rape

Moderate: Sexual violence, Sexual assault, and Pedophilia

Minor: Car accident and Fire/Fire injury

scoutee's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Suicide, and Gore

Moderate: Pedophilia and Rape

seanamcphie's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious slow-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Violence, Suicide, and Self harm

Minor: Pedophilia

newton's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

3.0

Okay. I'm conflicted on this book. It was a slow start, and for most of it I was just confused as to where we were and what was happening. My number one criticism was a lack of atmospheric detail, there were so many points where I knew vaguely the location Jade was in but was left with little idea of what that place looked like. I don't know if it's a flaw of the writing or just me not reading closely enough (or, most likely, a mix) but it seriously impacted how I was able to enjoy this book. I'm still lost on a lot of the plot and details, and it was just a bit of a drudge until things picked up around the end.
On to the positives, though. Jade. Jade my love. I really liked the idea of a genre-savvy slasher character, and while it was often hard to parse when serious drama was actually going down because of how slasher-focused her narration was, overall I absolutely adored her character. She deserved to go apeshit and

kill her piece of shit father

. I also found Letha to be a fantastic character

(though, again, Jade's narration made it a bit hard to really trust her – I was waiting for a twist with her that never came).

Rooting for them to fall in love in books 2 or 3.
And the GORE!! I love to feel violently sick after reading a book – it's a lot harder for gore to get to me when I'm not watching it on screen. The gore in The Only Good Indians was probably my favorite part of the book, and I was glad to see SGJ keeps up the horrifying grossness in his other work.

The part where Letha and Jade are hiding in the cave of elk corpses was so disgusting and evocative, and of course the jaw dismemberment and bodies flying in the yacht and lake massacres were delightfully horrifying.

I'll probably read at least book 2 in this trilogy, and maybe reread this one just to fill in the details of what I missed in my first read. All in all, it was enjoyable, and by the time it picked up, I couldn't put it down. I just wish the first part hadn't been so slow and that we had been able to get more details and atmosphere/mood through Jade's consistently slasher-focused narration. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Gore, Incest, Suicide attempt, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Alcoholism

charliebk_2's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Blood, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Domestic abuse, and Death