Reviews tagging 'Pedophilia'

Snow, Glass, Apples by Neil Gaiman

13 reviews

neolx's review against another edition

challenging dark sad fast-paced

1.0

This is one of the stupidest, grossest, most offensive things I’ve ever read. It is pointless, gratuitous, and horribly written. The art is fine, but the writing is not only mediocre and awkward, but seems like it was written by AI. While Snow White may be a monster in this retelling, she is still only a girl of six and later twelve years of age, and she is constantly sexualized and demeaned (in addition to being depicted instigating sexual acts with grown men, including her father!) and don’t even get me started on the necrophilia scene. Besides this, the book was also demeaning to disabled people, describing the forest people as misshapen, stunted, greedy idiots, and overall demeaning to women in general (no woman, alone and naked in her bedroom, would ever think “if a man were in my room spying on me right now, he would be aroused by my naked body!”). I can’t believe this was allowed to be published.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Death, Sexual violence, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Adult/minor relationship, Racial slurs, Racism, Child death, Ableism, Incest, Gore, Body horror, Blood, Sexual content, Rape, Murder, and Child abuse

Necrophilia

tifftastic87's review

dark mysterious medium-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? No

3.0

The art is absolutely stunning. The fact that its hand drawn and painted adding to that. 

The story, while a compelling thought exercise, wasnt working for me and I couldn't figure out why. I loved the magic of the queen, but the age she is at the beginning and the alluding to her using a glamor to get the king, followed by the age of snow white (13 at the oldest) and how sexualized she is was rubbing me the wrong way. I found someone in the reviews put their finger on it, it came off as edgy for the sake of edgy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Sexual content, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, and Pedophilia

stevie02's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Sexual assault, Blood, Violence, Cannibalism, Death, Body horror, Child abuse, and Sexual content

Moderate: Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Rape, Torture, Death of parent, and Excrement

Necrophilia

ceciliareading's review against another edition

dark tense

4.0

saw some uptight lady say on goodreads that it misleads as for kids and promots SA (and framed all this by talking about how she wants gaiman to whisper his stories while she sucks on his ears?) so its a 4 star for me lads, very dark and gothic.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Incest, Pedophilia, and Rape

cassimiranda's review

dark fast-paced

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

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Domestic abuse, Grief, Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Murder, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Sexism, Gaslighting, Rape, Misogyny, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Death, Child abuse, Pedophilia, and Toxic relationship

shakiral's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pedophilia

ambenicole418's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

Somehow this is even more traumatizing and disturbing than the original/traditionally written version. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Pedophilia, Death, Incest, Rape, Sexual content, Blood, Adult/minor relationship, and Sexual assault

jane_seymour7's review against another edition

4.0

TW: murder, necrophilia, pedophilia, violence, sex

This is definitely NOT a children's story; it is an adaptation of the traditional story of Snow White. Although it is quite dark and very strange, I found the concept incredibly interesting. Very quick and engaging read, but please don't read this to your children.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Murder, Incest, Sexual assault, Rape, Pedophilia, and Sexual violence

mccalab's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Loveable characters? No

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Body horror, and Rape

Minor: Incest

Necrophilia needs to be added to content warnings.

miamatic04's review

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Pedophilia

Moderate: Self harm