Reviews tagging 'Pedophilia'

Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler

113 reviews

calamitymeat's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

It's such a shame Octavia Butler died so suddenly and tragically almost immediately after writing this :( I really would have loved for this series to continue. 

I was having an AWFUL time reading it however. Damn she sure does know how to make people uncomfortable. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia

Its not TECHNICALLY pedophilia, but she is graphically describing sex between two characters when one has the body of a 10 year old. And she goes out of her way to describe how small and tiny and young and petite the character is. It's kind of gross but you also have to understand that's kind of the point

amberleefowler's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No

2.5

I was really disappointed with this book. I have heard incredible things about the author, but despite the writing style pulling me in, and the interesting vampire lore and culture, I would not read this book again and struggled to finish in the first place. 
I could not get over the appearance of Shori and despite understanding that Butler was attempting to discuss the shift of power dynamics in this book (age, race, sex), the level of description of Shori's prepubescent body and her sexual encounters with other characters is revolting. I think this aim could have been achieved without the outright and glaring pedophilia throughout the entire book.
There were also some other disappointments where the book did not live up to the hype, including the plot and dialogue.
I did love the unique take of vampire families and symbiotes as well as the discussion around race and identity but yeah pretty disappointing for how eager I was to read this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Animal death

mmefish's review against another edition

This was interesting (and disgusting) but became repetitive and full of endless exposition.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, and Fire/Fire injury

peax33's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

Would have been a phenomenal series starter as intended. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia

linda_elaine's review

dark slow-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia

maregred's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Racial slurs, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Death, Murder, and Violence

Minor: Slavery and Grief

kaitieg97's review against another edition

A little too weird for my tastes!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Pedophilia

m4tr1m0ny's review

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

I just slammed right through this one, Octavia Butler wrote just the most amazing SFF.

Super fascinating to see her continuing obsession with sex essentialism/dimorphism in alien species.

The Ina read very, very similarly to the Oankali of Lilith's Brood.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia

doctorw0rm's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia and Violence

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Racial slurs, Racism, and Gun violence

it’s technically not pedophilia bc shori is an adult who is actually older than every character she has sex with, BUT she does have the appearance of a 10 year old. she is also described as a child by other vampires though since they age much more slowly than we do, but they also consider it normal for vampires of her age to have sex with adults. so it’s complicated idk. but i think it’s good to have a warning bc i kind of wanted to throw up at first

anothersarah's review against another edition

4.5

This book is really hard to rate because everything about it was amazing and brilliant.... except Butler's choice to have Shori present as a 10 year old child, that was a constant issue for me. I'm sure she did that with purpose, she was such a brilliant writer, but at the end it was a matter of how much I'd knock off of an otherwise 5⭐ read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, and Racism

Minor: Racial slurs