Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

It by Stephen King

6 reviews

nikolad89's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.75

This book is crazy good. The way time is used as a narrarive tool is masterful and the titular villain is just amazing. The characters, oh I love them so much. It's really weird, in good ways and bad: some chapters felt like Stephen King was on acid while writing them in the best way possible, but it was very 'she breasted boobily' at times. There are few scenes that are quite heavy and disturbing though.

Mike's racial torment made me understand more why slurs can be so triggering. Also the sewer scene was so unnecessary and strange but at least it was only like four pages.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Hate crime, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Antisemitism, Medical trauma, and Murder

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Slavery, and Grief

A lot of the heavy stuff can really escalate quickly in some chapters.

oops_i_read_it_again's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

1.75

Stephen King really pretended that children having an orgy in a drain pipe is integral to the plot 😫 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Beverly, a young girl, is descriped sexually multiple times throughout the book. Every male character wants to have Sex with her.

stuffo's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and War

amalialemay's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Suicide, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Hate crime, Slavery, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and War

All I'm going to say is this. There is a scene containing some

sexual content between the Losers club

and it does not need to be there nor is it relevant to the story. It took me out of the story and as a result it definitely didn't need to be there and came out of left field. As a result it lowered my rating by 1 star. I would recommend anyone take a look at the content warnings before reading.

jenny_blondie's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.5

In der mitte ist es einwenig langweilig aber der Schluss war super spannend konnte am ende garnicht mehr weglegen aber der anfang und mitte wird teilweise gegenstäbde oder Landschaften ellen lang beschrieben

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Racism, Slavery, Suicide, Violence, and Blood

fxtimx08's review against another edition

dark reflective medium-paced

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

4.75

A pesar de que es un libro de horror hay mucho énfasis en la amistad entre los personajes lo cual me encanto 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racism, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Child death and Suicide

Minor: Misogyny, Racial slurs, Sexual content, and Slavery