Reviews tagging 'Pedophilia'

Snow by John Banville

30 reviews

cstein's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

Enjoyable read with interesting insights into Irish history/politics, but too many knowing nods to mystery genre tropes and archetypes, the motive was obvious to the reader long before the detective, and

there was a frustratingly long break between when we learned a character was dead and Strafford got it together to find the body.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Murder, Pedophilia, Gore, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Violence, Alcohol, Bullying, Classism, Alcoholism, Death, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Vomit and Child death

yenna's review against another edition

there’s not much mystery to this mystery story 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Rape, and Child abuse

Minor: Suicide

genevievereads's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Rape, and Sexual assault

romcomapologist's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia and Child abuse

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Suicide

pnwlisa's review against another edition

dark reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Physical abuse, Child abuse, and Pedophilia

elsmith09's review

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Sexual assault, Rape, Pedophilia, Injury/Injury detail, and Adult/minor relationship

klfgasaway's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad slow-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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, and Sexual violence

Minor: Alcohol, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Murder, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

laurenmvmills's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.0

Tired and predictable priest trope but otherwise good read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Child abuse, and Abandonment

hconnellyal's review against another edition

dark slow-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? Yes

1.0

I love Agatha Christie. Although I see the topic and structure similarities to her works, it is beyond me how reviewers have put this book in the category of her works. The pace is excruciating, the ending painfully predictable and deeply unsatisfying, the characters flat ... and worst of all, the pedophilia is unnecessarily, gratuitously detailed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Rape, and Child abuse

mercurialbooks's review against another edition

sad slow-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

I cannot say I enjoyed this, as soon as the murder happens it is pretty obvious who the criminal is and even why they would have committed murder. Which is unfortunate.

That and the complete lack of actual investigation on the part of the detective left me a little confused as to how this has been pitched as a mystery / crime story at all. 

The main character seems to just hang out in the local area and it gets solved because someone eventually tells him the answer. 

So many plot holes it was painful. Oh that character isn't violent because he once worked in a butchers and couldn't wring a chickens neck? But he has literally just hunted a rabbit and split it open to gut it for cooking and doesn't blink?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Pedophilia, and Rape

Moderate: Death and Violence