Reviews tagging 'Pedophilia'

Being Lolita: A Memoir by Alisson Wood

44 reviews

evviebabette's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia

bellasgonemissing's review against another edition

3.0

good but did seem to skip a lot over moments/feelings that she would mention later on - wish they'd just been fleshed out in the moment to also help with what felt like a very 'and this happened and this happened and then this happened' sort of structure

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Panic attacks/disorders, and Mental illness

Moderate: Death and Alcohol

Minor: Vomit

tpantozzi's review against another edition

challenging reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Gaslighting, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Self harm, and Body shaming

emilygreer's review

dark emotional funny informative inspiring sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia and Toxic relationship

frmeden's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Adult/minor relationship, and Gaslighting

Minor: Self harm and Alcohol

voicenextdoor's review

informative medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Body shaming, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Fatphobia, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Mental illness, and Gaslighting

ish7's review

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

4.0

Alisson Wood's memoir is a really wonderful read. The less I say the better, because she wrote it best. The book is a confronting read, but it is framed by Lolita which is definitely one of my favourite novels of all time. The book meditates on the ways in which authority figures in a child's life can become purposefully unreliable narrators in order to manipulate and groom them. As someone who wants to be a parent some day, I realise just how dangerous the world can be for children. So often it is the people we trust our children with the most that take advantage of and break that trust. A sad and haunting read, but one worth the emotional turmoil it places you in. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Pedophilia

kittentoes's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, and Pedophilia

jackieyvette's review

challenging dark sad medium-paced

4.0

What can I say? There are never words that can really cover the way you feel when you read something like this. 
It's raw in a way only women can be. 


Crying score: none

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Gaslighting, Suicidal thoughts, Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Alcohol, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, and Terminal illness

sleazyshay69's review

challenging

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Pedophilia, and Rape