Reviews tagging 'Pedophilia'

Maeve Fly by CJ Leede

2 reviews

natahoochie's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

WTF. Horrifying. Brutal. Incredible. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Death, Drug use, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Pedophilia and Vomit

Minor: Abortion

sarah984's review against another edition

dark 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

2.0

I picked this up because of the cool looking cover, after seeing it recommended as "feminist body horror" on Likewise. So if you are like me I will save you some time: it's not feminist or body horror. The cover is cool though.

The main character is a woman but she hates and/or belittles all other women (except her grandmother, who is a complete non-entity in this story) and thinks she's unique as a woman due to her misanthropy. The book makes a big deal about it being sexist that stories require women to have trauma to be villains when men can just do what they want, but then gives Maeve villain trauma. The romance is all "oh he was so much bigger than me" straight people crap.

Several quotes and entire scenes are lifted whole cloth from American Psycho but nothing interesting is done with that at all.

I really have to wonder who this book was for. I feel like it was somehow simultaneously too much and too tame, like it's not extreme horror because pretty much everything "extreme" happens off screen, but too much "extreme" content is implied for this to appeal to normies. Baffling book.

Some of the Halloween music trivia was interesting, so 2 stars.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Murder

Moderate: Bullying, Confinement, Fatphobia, Gore, Misogyny, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Vomit, Grief, Cannibalism, Stalking, Abortion, and Alcohol