Reviews tagging 'Pedophilia'

Gerald's Game by Stephen King

45 reviews

czoltak's review

dark slow-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

1.0

I definitely would’ve DNF’ed if I wasn’t it reading for a readathon. I can see why people like this, but it is absolutely not for me and the exact opposite of what I’m looking for.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Animal cruelty, Panic attacks/disorders, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Pedophilia, Rape, Toxic relationship, Incest, Infertility, Blood, Confinement, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Adult/minor relationship

motivationsloch's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Violence, Sexual violence, Injury/Injury detail, Incest, Blood, Pedophilia, Rape, Death, and Child abuse

cowboyaj's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Incest, and Rape

Moderate: Pedophilia, Misogyny, and Toxic relationship

ajg2289's review against another edition

dark sad slow-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

1.0

This was my first Stephen King novel and will be my last. He uses the word “cunt” in a really obnoxious way and he seems to be darkly fascinated by children and sexuality and exploiting them in that way. Making up horrific stories and scenarios and describing them in the most dense, pointless way. DO NOT RECOMMEND. 
The twist at the end was laughable and had nothing to do with the story prior the last 40 pages. Terrible.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, and Cursing

taliahalleck_'s review against another edition

icky! gross! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Death, Child abuse, and Incest

danimacuk's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Incest, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

nicole_cob_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Violence, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Body horror, Blood, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pedophilia, Panic attacks/disorders, Gaslighting, Sexual content, Stalking, Grief, Gore, Child abuse, Cannibalism, Adult/minor relationship, Self harm, Misogyny, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Sexism, and Mental illness

kkalicky94's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Blood, Body horror, Gore, Sexual assault, Confinement, Gaslighting, Incest, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cannibalism, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Sexual content

lillythebluepaladin's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

3.5

“men were not so much gifted with penises as cursed with them”.

That’s it. That’s literally every. Single. Male. Character. In this book in a nutshell. They’re actually all so gross. Jesus Christ…

This was my first Steven King book!
Saw it was on Netflix, and I wanted to read the thing first.

Okay, let’s start out with what I liked:
As a mentally I’ll and traumatised bitch myself, who used to struggle with a psychosis, I both related and hated so many parts of this book. The way that Steven described the voices and the heart drops and the visions, it was all really well written, and they felt real. Kudos to King for that one.
And the whole solar eclipse situation. SO FREAKING GROSS, I was one step away from barfing, that was a horrible thing to read about, that was genuinely terrifying, again kudos to Steven for that.

Now onto the negative stuff.
The tone shift that happened from when we first see

the man in the corner

To the end where we get all of that explained was just so anti climatic. When the first situation happened, it was SO ABSOLUTELY FUCKING TERRIFYING JESUS CHRIST, It actually triggered my psychosis so I had to take a week break, and then when we got everything explained at the end, it just did not feel scary anymore. The reveal just felt a little bit too parody-ish or just way over the top,

(there was just too much penis on all of those pages)

, and it personally made the rest of the book fall flat for me after that.

AND AGAIN, male authors just really want an outlet for their women torture porn fantasies huh? So they decide to write books to get them out huh? The way that Steven King continued to talk about her body throughout the whole thing made me so uncomfortable. WE GET IT STEVEN, YOU LOVE THE CHERRIES, STOP IT😭

So yeah, wish I could give it more stars, but I cannot 💅
Also I have decided to adopt the poor doggie, do not worry guys, he’s having a great time with me, I’m giving him treats, he’s all happy and good. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Pedophilia

clapyourshands's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Animal cruelty, Blood, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Incest, Medical content, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Violence