Reviews tagging 'Pedophilia'

Lord of Population by Elizabeth Stephens

9 reviews

britreadsbooks_'s review against another edition

dark

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Ableism, Violence, Child abuse, Child death, Alcoholism, Death, Sexual content, Medical content, Sexual assault, Torture, Vomit, Sexual harassment, Murder, Gore, Car accident, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Cannibalism, Blood, Kidnapping, and Animal death

Minor: Rape

therealjessicaaustin_2002's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Pedophilia, and Torture

Minor: Rape

kbairbooks's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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? No

5.0

Speechless. Read this book. READ THE TRIGGER WARNINGS. Be careful. And pay attention to the rules of population and you MIGHT survive.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Genocide, Medical content, Mental illness, Cannibalism, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Kidnapping, Torture, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Violence, Rape, Colonisation, Confinement, Abandonment, Ableism, Animal death, Cursing, Death of parent, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Blood, Addiction, Body horror, Body shaming, Grief, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Misogyny, Murder, Sexual assault, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, War, Infidelity, Vomit, and Car accident

apolen's review against another edition

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gun violence, Murder, Blood, Slavery, Pedophilia, Gore, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Child abuse, Death, Torture, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Child death, and War

Moderate: Medical content, Cultural appropriation, Adult/minor relationship, Vomit, Fire/Fire injury, Alcoholism, Sexual assault, Addiction, Cursing, Child abuse, Trafficking, Confinement, War, Drug use, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Rape, Death of parent, Animal death, and Cannibalism

ashatroyal's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.25

This is a post-apocalypse dystopian story with some sci-fi, paranormal and vampirism thrown in there. Abel is a strong FMC who is scrappy and witty. She’s going to fight her way out or die trying. Like my girl is a warrior! After a series of unfortunate events, she meets Kane. She lives by certain rules that keep getting amended the longer she’s in his presence. Kane has honestly been protective from the start. Mikey is not a good person. He definitely sexually assaulted her then tried to blame her in addition to all his faults. This book is gritty. Some things are hard to read and make no mistake there’s no shortage of having to survive when gangs, Others and scavengers are out in the population. I think one of the main lessons learned is that it’s okay to have hope. This book would’ve been a 4 for me if not for the grammar mistakes. Around 90% the book felt a little dragged out. 

How they trying to be stealthy and they’re slamming doors and calling out names? They do a lot of yelling for people not trying to be found. I also don’t understand why Jack looked like Kane. 

More grammatical errors as the story progressed. 

TW: Minor/adult relations, sexual assault, violence, murder, loss of parents, pedophilia, cannibalism. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, and Murder

Minor: Child abuse, Addiction, Abandonment, Pedophilia, Cannibalism, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Rape, Physical abuse, Confinement, Sexual assault, Panic attacks/disorders, and Death of parent

weezy's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

3.0

This book requires some serious editing. There were sentences that just... Didn't make sense? It could of easily been 2 or 3 books and fleshed out more fully. Probably wouldn't read again and wouldn't continue on

I adored Kane. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Colonisation, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Death, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Pedophilia, and Rape

rocksicle's review against another edition

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual violence, and Gore

Moderate: Rape, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Sexual assault, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

Minor: Vomit, Pedophilia, and Gun violence

peddlerofpages's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark medium-paced

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

3.0

What a world! 

I'm a sucker for post-apocalyptic worlds and I think Stephen's did a great job in creating this one. The first 100 pages of this book sucked me in completely and I really enjoyed the world building we received. The alien's are very close to humans, just with a lot of handy extra senses and indestructability, so this would probably be a good alien romance for those who aren't ready for horns or tails :D 

At the time of reading, I didn't realise that this novel is two books combined into one (my fault, it does state in the amazon description and author's website), if I had know this it might have made my overall rating a bit higher, as I did spend most of this book confused as to why there was way too much going on for a single novel. I don't necessarily think combining the books was a smart idea, it makes it feel way too overwhelming and lengthy and the volume of 'bad vibes' scenes overshoots the 'good times' to a point where I was desperate to get through to the end just in the hopes my emotional misery would be relieved, rather than out of excitement. Some extra editing to cut down what was the second novel - hopefully taking out the wave of characters sticking their tongues out and squabbling - would have solved this issue. 

The smut in this book is quite light, in my opinion, and from other reviews I was definitely expecting more. I would class this more as a brutal sci-fi novel with romance, than a romance in a sci-fi world. 

I will try the other books in the series and more from this author though, as I liked her writing style and world building and I can see that the other books were written as one novel, so I like to believe my main issues with this one will not apply. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Minor: Child abuse, Pedophilia, and Sexual assault

kimberlyb's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad 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? It's complicated

3.75

I think this book used to have a different title. 
It's starts out harsh, desolate.
The feelings Kane has for Able are love at first sight. And not explained enough for me.
I was shocked at how much the author puts the protagonist through. I was expecting a romance story. This was more adventure that happened to have a romance. There is a tease of a reverse harem. Kane and Able didn't spend enough time together. 
There is vampirism In This book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Rape, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Trafficking, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cannibalism and Pedophilia