Reviews tagging 'Pedophilia'

My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

72 reviews

narbine's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

That was an enjoyable read! Love this author’s writing style 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Physical abuse, and Death

Moderate: Blood, Grief, Medical content, Gore, Adult/minor relationship, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Pedophilia, Sexism, Classism, and Trafficking

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Murder, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Violence, Bullying, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Medical content, and Grief

Minor: Death of parent, Addiction, Pedophilia, and Drug use

ninahuynh's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

4.75

So many characters in this book annoyed me. Points to Braithwaite for creating such full characters that are able to invoke such annoyance in me haha A page-turner, to say the least! And that ending 🙊🙈

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Gaslighting, Pedophilia, Blood, Body shaming, Child abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Violence, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, and Murder

thee_eclectic_eccentric's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Blood, Toxic relationship, Murder, Child abuse, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Infidelity

bluberrybooks's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child abuse, Death of parent, Murder, Domestic abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Medical content, Racism, and Pedophilia

Minor: Grief, Ableism, and Fatphobia

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jei_reads_sometimes's review against another edition

challenging dark 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

4.0

While no one in the story was particularly loveable, I found myself absolutely curious as to what would happen to them next. The interweaving of past and present was well executed.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death of parent, Blood, Domestic abuse, Murder, Death, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Infidelity and Pedophilia

te_ss_i's review

dark funny mysterious tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Violence, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Medical content, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Child abuse, Classism, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Infidelity, Pedophilia, and Toxic friendship

k_readingmorenow's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.25

I couldn't predict the turns of this story, which is saying something as it had this fated quality to the narration. I think I saw this on a list of comedic books, and it is definitely....not that. I can only imagine whoever put it on that list went only by the description and title, because it does have a heaviness to it that can only come from engaging with it over more than a few chapters. 

I listened to the audiobook and found the tone wonderful. I hope to listen to more books by this narrator. Clear, soft, and easy to listen to but with so much emotion and inflection in the voice, it really felt like the narration made it come alive. 

All the characters felt like real people, even the ones we only get a little bit of, and her sister seemed to become more real as we learned more about their life. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder and Sexism

Minor: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Pedophilia

vildfarenraev's review against another edition

3.5

While I'm entirely unfamiliar with Nigerian culture and traditions, and felt that I stumbled here as there as a result, I was more curious about learning more than confused. In a lot of ways, it reminded me a lot of the style of East Asian stories that I've read over the years; in terms of tone and tradition vs. modern styles of dress/living/etc.

I really liked Korede as a narrator and her inner conflict regarding if she really should protect Ayoola or not creates a dynamic story. It adds to the question "which of them is the bigger monster?", though by the end of the book, that question changes to "who's behaviour is Ayoola really copying?" Ayoola, herself, is as interesting as she is bratty and - to a certain degree - gives me Amy Dunne (Gone Girl) vibes that didn't click until I started writing this review.

I think I was hoping for more thrills, more horror, but that was based on my expectations based on the title and I quickly accepted that this was more of a domestic thriller than horror. It was fast-paced and easy to read and I would still say it was a solid novel.

Below are some spoiler-filled after thoughts I have:

I'm really curious about the question of whether Ayoola is acting as she does because of the actions of their father on because Korede is the one who suggested they kill him. It's mentioned how Ayoola follows what her elder sister does and since it was Korede's idea to murder their abusive father, is that why Ayoola kills men when the relationships she has change? What change would be necessary? Does it have something to do with sex since their father was killed for attempting to pass Ayoola to a p*d*phile?

I have so many questions but, surprisingly, I'm more intrigued by these questions rather than annoyed by the lack of answers.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse and Domestic abuse

Minor: Pedophilia

ahhhreadzombiez's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

2.75

This book hmm… I got through it very fast (in two days, really) but does that mean I enjoyed it? Well, not exactly. I didn’t enjoy the characters; it’s very hard to read a book when you don’t like a single character in it. And I can’t help but feel I continued to read it because I wanted to just see it through to the end and hope, just really hope that the characters would have some type of development that would make them just a tad bit enjoyable. It was just a tragic story with what felt like no real point. I wish I liked this more, but it just… didn’t do it for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gaslighting, Domestic abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Murder, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Grief, and Child abuse

Moderate: Rape and Pedophilia