Reviews tagging 'Incest'

Pet by Akwaeke Emezi

59 reviews

michaelion's review against another edition

dark hopeful reflective fast-paced

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

3.75

I'm not ashamed to say it: Hot monster.

Pet, I mean, is hot, not the actual monster of the book.

But then we find out Pet is an angel, so double hot. And an angel that kills? Triple hot!!! A righteous angel that can eventually be reasoned with and see the good in letting humans learn to be better and do better without having to exact justice on behalf of victims without due process?! This is just gonna keep going, I have to stop myself now.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Pedophilia, Incest, and Sexual assault

Minor: Physical abuse

ceilisbookshelf's review

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Child abuse, and Incest

zombiezami's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gore, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Incest, Cursing, Pedophilia, Child abuse, and Gaslighting

Minor: Dysphoria and Mass/school shootings

saffyre's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Body horror, Gore, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Cursing

Minor: Pedophilia and Incest

bruhbruh's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Rape, Pedophilia, and Sexual violence

Minor: Dysphoria

gabbo's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Incest, and Pedophilia

indi72547's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Incest, and Pedophilia

Minor: Transphobia

lolajh's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

Perfectly conveying racism and police brutality through fantasy themes and referring to the bad people in this world as monsters. Jam is a trans girl who uncovers an unfortunate mystery in her family with the help of the morally grey fantasy being: Pet. Pet acts as a guardian and protector of Jam and her community whilst having horrific and extreme motives that are what make it a morally grey character that I still adore. This book is quite reflective, because it makes you wonder if people who have done bad things like those that are done in this book do deserve to be dehumanised as monsters and be sentenced to death, which I can understand as a solution because of the objectively immoral things done by humans in this book. It opened my eyes to how much of the world is full of bad people, and how not all of them can be noticed as such straight away or are even conscious of it themselves. Very scary thought that Akwaeke illustrated so well.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Blood, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Rape, Incest, and Sexual assault

jodiwatterson's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

I feel like everyone should read this book honestly. It’s message is so important. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, and Vomit

Minor: Drug abuse

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse, Pedophilia, Incest, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Blood, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Gun violence, Police brutality, Child death, Murder, Suicide, and Hate crime

Minor warnings mostly apply to backstory/worldbuilding information provided early on. Child abuse (emotional, physical, and implied sexual) is heavily discussed and thematically relevant but not actually shown on-page, nor is it described in explicit detail.