Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

49 reviews

stobblin's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

There's a reason why this is a classic and it showed by how easy it read and how compelling it was.

However, it very much is a product of its time and while I generally appreciate darker themes and shocking scenes in novels, some parts felt shocking just for the sake of shock. 

I'm glad I've read it at almost 30 and not at the first time I picked it up when I was 19.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Mental illness, Murder, Body horror, Blood, Death, Excrement, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Sexual content, and Vomit

Moderate: Drug use, Addiction, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

edgutierrez's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Cursing, Gore, Death, Body horror, Child abuse, and Vomit

blackcatwitch's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content

devynvictoria's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.5

I enjoyed this a lot more than I was expecting to. I am not a fan of The Exorcist movie, but I was recommended the audiobook multiple times so I finally gave it a try. It was great and the narration by the author was amazing. I love how much he fleshed out the characters before everything starts to go down hill— it made you really care about what was happening to them. The downsides were that I absolutely couldn’t stand the officer, and the ending was just a really underwhelming ending for a book that had been so enjoyable up until then.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Vomit, and Mental illness

Moderate: Murder, Drug abuse, Violence, Addiction, Medical content, Sexual content, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death

edenofalltrades'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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

thespencerj's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Gore, Grief, Medical content, Murder, Blood, Alcohol, Suicide, Violence, Vomit, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Excrement, and Sexual content

Moderate: Addiction, Religious bigotry, Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

aedoran08's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Vomit, Violence, Body horror, Blood, Cursing, Gore, Murder, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Excrement

grapes666's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.75

I was surprised by my love for this. The author is a fantastic storyteller 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Mental illness, Chronic illness, Self harm, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Excrement, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Vomit, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Racial slurs, Excrement, Addiction, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Dementia, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Suicide, Misogyny, and Domestic abuse

There’s an infamous scene where a child is forced to inflict a pretty upsetting act and it’s basically impossible to appropriately and accurately describe in trigger warnings. So, WARNING WARNING WARNING

christa8's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Pedophilia, Sexual content, and Child abuse

meaghanelizabook's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Torture, Vomit, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Death, Medical content, Physical abuse, Rape, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Gore, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, and Self harm

Moderate: Child abuse, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Murder, and Panic attacks/disorders