Reviews tagging 'Incest'

Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers

5 reviews

bookswithcapri's review

challenging hopeful mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy and Abortion

Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault

Minor: War, Terminal illness, and Incest

skudiklier's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

I'm worried I'm too emotionally invested at the moment to be writing this review; I don't know how to write about how this book made me feel without writing about the ending. I'll spoiler warning it at the end here, but just know that all spoilers in it are very vague.

Overall I liked this book. I knew absolutely nothing about it going in--not the premise, not the genre, nothing. I picked it solely based on the cover. Throughout the first half of it I just felt a sort of rising tension, as I waited for the shoe to drop. This book was well-written and while the ending devastated me, I don't think it should have been changed. 

This book makes me want to read more by this author, because I really liked how well it showed tiny social things that feel hard to capture/explain but can make a real impact on how a situation feels or a relationship progresses. Small things that Jean worries over momentarily, that just felt really well-done. 

Honestly the ending just is so sad. I wasn't prepared. I wish I'd paid more attention to the dates so that I could have seen it coming. It makes sense as a story but I'm just too close to these characters right now, I feel too sad for them. It made it so I couldn't give this book five stars.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Abortion, Death, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Dementia, Infidelity, Medical content, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexism, Antisemitism, Death of parent, Grief, and Sexual content

Minor: Lesbophobia, Cancer, and Incest

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bashmash31's review

challenging hopeful medium-paced

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

4.0

It was a really interesting book with subtle but significant plot twists. The development of the story makes the reading a lot more enjoyable and it is a very unique, admirable concept. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Rape and Incest

emmagreenwood's review against another edition

dark emotional funny lighthearted reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Grief, Mental illness, Cancer, Medical content, Pregnancy, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Chronic illness, Terminal illness, Abortion, Infertility, Confinement, Dementia, and Rape

Moderate: Body shaming and Ableism

Minor: Infertility, Incest, Medical trauma, and Mental illness

groovywitch's review

dark mysterious 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

2.5

The title is a complete misnomer and I’m honestly so surprised the book is so well received. The twist was so disappointing, the characters so generic, and there was too much misogyny, homophobia and distressing and disturbing subject matters for this book to have such a misleading title and twee cover art.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Sexual assault

Moderate: Lesbophobia

Minor: Incest