Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

Walk the Vanished Earth by Erin Swan

4 reviews

kendramichele's review

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

3.0

This book had a lot of promising elements. I love a multigenerational family saga, a cautionary tale, or when the setting is the dystopian future. I also don't mind when a story becomes unusual or things take a turn for the unexpected. 

Yet I could not bring myself to invest in the characters. A great many themes are explored, but don't feel compelling or fully developed. 

Ultimately, this is an example of a premise that's more interesting than its execution. There are other books with similar concepts of survival amidst a collapsing society that are more memorable. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Mental illness

Minor: Animal cruelty and Fire/Fire injury

spacebot3000's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Death, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Mental illness, and Rape

Minor: Confinement, Drug abuse, Cannibalism, and Infertility

exactlyem's review

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Pregnancy

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal death, and Murder

lesbianclerics's review

This book really made me ask myself questions and think. Questions like, "where do we draw the line between dark content and torture porn?" And "At what point is a book so feminist it wraps back around to misogynistic?"

Erin Swan has somehow managed to pass both those points. The first few chapters had me hooked. I was rambling excitedly to my mom about how much i enjoyed the writing style, and I'm generally a fan of books which jump back and forth in time.

Then the uncles got weird about Moon. Then I realized Bea was 12, not 17ish like I had assumed. The final nail in the coffin was Paul's first chapter. I realized that the only thing I cared about at this point was Bea's time in the hospital and her recovery. I read Paul's chapter, barely, but it was so boring i mostly skimmed it and the one-paragraph description about how the doctor basically just gave up on Bea. I decided to follow suit and gave up on the book. Unfortunate, because i really did like the writing style.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Drug use

Moderate: Incest, Kidnapping, Medical content, Rape, Sexual violence, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Death, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, and Death of parent

Minor: War, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

Most of the things in the moderate list barely slipped out of graphic just because it is described in metaphor and HEAVILY insinuated rather than explicitly described. It is very obvious though, and this is just what i got to in the first 115 pages.