Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Snow by John Banville

39 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

barmyjen's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Sexual assault

alicelily's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

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

2.0

A rather dull mystery. I’m not normally one to care if something is “predictable” but this was incredibly obvious quite quickly. Also the protagonist has no personality or emotion, apart from fantasising about every woman that he encounters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Child abuse, and Violence

Fairly detailed descriptions of

sexual abuse of young boys by priests

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

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

tallbookishgirl's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Child abuse

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

jesse_post's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective relaxing sad fast-paced

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

4.0

Fantastic read by one of our best living prose stylists, and a nicely done mystery where all the actions actually matter to the characters and the corpse is a fully realized person. The purpose isn’t for you, the reader, to solve anything since what you need to know is mostly revealed early on (and not to the detective). The purpose is to read and enjoy a deeply introspective and atmospheric book about this set of characters in this society at that time. In other words, it’s a book, not a role playing game. Well done, Mr. Banville. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Murder, and Rape

ungildedlily's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence and Child abuse

indigopuzzle's review against another edition

mysterious medium-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? No

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Child abuse