Reviews tagging 'Infidelity'

Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman

17 reviews

noku's review

The plot was too slow, the relationship was problematic and toxic, the prose was beautiful though, but after the first few chapters it became too much and it felt like I was reading a poem in paragraph form...  I tried reading it to help get me back into reading more frequently, but I got filled with dread every time I picked it up. And every time I talked about it, I never had anything good to say. Maybe someday I will finish reading it, but for now, I will be taking a break from it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Infidelity

gabrielleclarke05's review

challenging emotional reflective relaxing sad slow-paced

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

2.25

Wow.. this was gross in multiple parts.  Elio compared the peach to a SA victim🧐 I’m glad the film cut out the problematic bits. This book just felt like the author writing down his weird fetishes 
The movie overall is better and this book just felt creepy and the author is a self proclaimed pedophile so take that as you will

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Biphobia, Abandonment, Alcohol, Excrement, Gaslighting, Grief, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Body shaming, and Sexual assault

thelavendermenace's review

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

This was a great book. I didn’t read it but instead listened to it on audible. Army Hammer is an insanely good narrator and I was in tears at the end. I would recommend for anyone who wants a chilled out romance.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Abandonment and Infidelity

Minor: Alcohol and Cultural appropriation

char233's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective relaxing sad slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Infidelity, Pedophilia, and Sexual content

Minor: Child death, Death of parent, Terminal illness, and Vomit

onion's review against another edition

mysterious sad slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Alcohol, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Infidelity, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Ableism, Antisemitism, Cancer, Homophobia, Misogyny, and Racism

Minor: Drug use

sloanadrouny's review

emotional reflective tense slow-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

4.0

the prose in this book was insanely beautiful, and the story did really tug on my heartstrings at times. and THE LAST PARAGRAPH holy shit. however, there were some elements in this book that did make me quite uncomfortable, and for that i don’t think i can comfortably give this 5 stars.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Terminal illness and Sexual content

Minor: Excrement, Infidelity, Cancer, Death of parent, and Child death

emmaoline's review

challenging dark slow-paced

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

I am left with one question after reading this book and that is how was this ever published?
Not just in terms of content but the writing seems like nonsensical drivel only found in a first draft. At times it felt like Aciman had recently purchased his first thesaurus when writing this book, but had yet to learn anything about punctuation. Whilst what is supposed to pass for plot feels more like horror than romance.

There are no likeable characters in this book. There are no people in this book, only aliens masquerading as people. Although I did enjoy the character Ada whose only purpose was to say "I am Ada," in a crowded room. If this was spoken to the main characters or not, or in the background is not really clear, which made it funnier.

But in the end, I am left reeling from the racist colonial ideology that came out of nowhere and had way too much time spent on it as if it were Shakespeare. This disgusting language was so disturbing I forgot the earlier passage where a peach was described as "bruises and damaged, like a rape victim,"[sic]

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Xenophobia, Transphobia, Sexual content, Rape, Racism, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: Cancer, Terminal illness, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Deadnaming, Antisemitism, and Infidelity