Reviews tagging 'Excrement'

The Perfect Child by Lucinda Berry

53 reviews

alreinwarth's review

Just no. This feels like it is demonizing mental illness and childhood trauma survivors. And then the brutal animal cruelty was just too much for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Animal death, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Self harm, Abandonment, Excrement, Murder, Physical abuse, Eating disorder, Medical content, Miscarriage, Confinement, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, and Violence

amaranth_wytch's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Pregnancy, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, and Grief

Moderate: Self harm, Torture, Violence, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Vomit, Blood, Body horror, and Medical content

Minor: Addiction, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, and Ableism

aerialwhitney's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Animal cruelty, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Child abuse, Animal death, and Abandonment

Moderate: Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, and Infertility

gneumann's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

this was a really tough read. i should not have read this

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Animal cruelty, Confinement, Grief, Child abuse, Animal death, Death, Gaslighting, Pregnancy, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Medical content, Abandonment, and Excrement

Minor: Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Drug abuse, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

luhchan's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Vomit, Mental illness, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Excrement, Blood, Gaslighting, and Medical content

faithsbookreads's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

This book was WILD. So many moments had my jaw dropping & gasping. However, it was a disturbing read. I wasn’t a huge fan of the ending. I think if the ending were a bit different, I would’ve rated higher, but due to the disturbing nature of the book & the not-so-great ending, I could only give 3 stars.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Domestic abuse, Excrement, Panic attacks/disorders, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Infertility, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Vomit

amarachireadss's review against another edition

4.25

 I devoured this book, I couldn’t put it down and read it nonstop for hours. The writing was great, easy to understand and kept me interested in the story. This is a thriller and the main characters are a doctor and a nurse that foster and then later adopt a child that comes into the emergency room with serious neglect. I don’t even know what to say about this book but normally when I can separate it from real life but for this it was so real. 

The couple deals with taking care of this child that is not okay and has issues surrounding her past and the neglect and trauma she’s faced. Bringing this child into their home causes the couples relationship to change and leads them to do things that aren’t great. There are a lot of themes dealing with trauma, mental illness, manipulation, child abuse and neglect so be aware if you choose to read this. While I was reading the only thing I could think of was that the child should not be in a home. They should have be in 24/7 therapeutic program or something cause i would have also gone insane as the parent. 

The last 10 percent of the book was crazy, a lot of things happened, were revealed and it happened too fast. It also annoyed me because I needed to know more about the child past and I had so many questions. Read this book if you like thrillers, the author was a trauma psychologist and it shows in the she wrote this book and the character interactions. I definitely need to pick up the short story because I need to know more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Violence, and Excrement

knik's review against another edition

dark sad medium-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, and Child abuse

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Murder, and Excrement

dilani's review against another edition

dark sad tense 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? Yes

3.0

entertaining but everyone pissed me off…especially Christoper👀 so many warning signs around a troubled child…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

Moderate: Mental illness, Infertility, and Pregnancy

Minor: Vomit, Murder, and Excrement

toofondofbooks_'s review against another edition

fast-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? Yes

3.5

I liked a lot about this one and hybrid reading it (audio and on kindle) really added to the experience and made me feel more immersed in the story. I don't think the writing was the best ever but the story in general kept me wanting to know what happened. The very end did me very dirty though. if you know you know. Now I'm gonna start the companion novella to this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Miscarriage, Self harm, Confinement, Physical abuse, Ableism, Body horror, Abandonment, Infertility, Mental illness, Murder, Animal death, Blood, Child abuse, Excrement, Medical content, Bullying, Death, Domestic abuse, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Sexual content, Addiction, and Alcohol