Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

Die Einladung by Monika Baark, Emma Cline

56 reviews

mstall_'s review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

I wanted The Guest to be so much more than it is.

Emma Cline’s writing is wonderful — quick, sultry, and so so atmospheric. I felt like I was summering on the East Coast by page two. What gets me about this book is that nothing happens, nothing. The last page, the last word, is the start of the thing you’ve been waiting for this whole time! I can appreciate a good, unsatisfying ending but this just felt confusing. I read almost 300 pages to not find out what happens?

Does Dom the drug dealer come and find her and hurt Simon?

or

does Simon see her and take her back?

or

is she just making all of this up?

or

is Jack alive or hurting himself?

I guess I just don’t understand the point here. Where is the story? Is the story just about a girl who wanders the beaches of New Jersey for a week? I’m so lost. 

3/5 ⭐️

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use and Sexual content

Minor: Violence and Adult/minor relationship

raes_library's review against another edition

challenging mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Drug abuse, and Adult/minor relationship

chloeburton's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Car accident

Minor: Sexual assault

thebookpaiges's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Sexual content, Drug use, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Car accident and Stalking

Minor: Sexual assault and Infidelity

dyer's review against another edition

dark reflective sad

• Strong character development? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Classism, and Sexual content

Moderate: Alcohol, Stalking, Rape, Addiction, Body shaming, Drug use, and Mental illness

aliyachaudhry's review against another edition

dark tense 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Sexual assault, Drug abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Car accident, Drug use, and Sexual content

Moderate: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Eating disorder

maryclaire92's review against another edition

challenging dark funny tense fast-paced

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

5.0

A delectable train wreck that I could not put down. Gobsmacked at the sheer audacity of protagonist Alex and the way she both floats and jackhammers through life. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Sexual content

Moderate: Drug abuse, Car accident, Cursing, Drug use, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Alcohol

ashp's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship

e11en's review against another edition

dark reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, and Sexual content

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Car accident

channamason's review against another edition

dark funny sad tense 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? Yes

3.5

this is a fucking weird book. this truly the top tier of unreliable narrators. this was very hard to get into as I didn’t understand the meandering plot. however as the book continues something extremely sinister seems to be ever boiling under the surface and it is very unsettling. and then i couldn’t stop reading. good for fans of the divisive film Saltburn and My Year of Rest and Relaxation for sure.

i could see this being a good episodic series- each group she leaves in the wake a different episode kind of like Swarm

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Addiction, Blood, Abandonment, and Suicidal thoughts