Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

27 reviews

blackberryjambaby's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Lesbophobia, Toxic relationship, Religious bigotry, Grief, and Homophobia

Moderate: Medical content, Racism, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Child abuse, Colonisation, Sexism, Misogyny, Confinement, Abandonment, and Bullying

Minor: Alcoholism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Classism, Death, Fatphobia, Pregnancy, and Adult/minor relationship

therosepages's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Homophobia, Child abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Animal death

balth_the_chaotic_good's review

challenging emotional funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Lesbophobia, Religious bigotry, and Homophobia

Moderate: Death, Outing, Xenophobia, Emotional abuse, Racism, and Adult/minor relationship

maxinesf's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, and Outing

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Sexual content

bisexualwentworth's review against another edition

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I really don't know how to feel about this one. It was very interesting. Very surreal. Very emotional. I don't think I understood all of it. Definitely the sort of odd coming-of-age story that I don't tend to encounter often and usually find interesting when I do, and this was no exception. I'm just not sure I liked it.

If you have more religious trauma than me you might connect to it more than I did.

The chunk from just after the opening until about halfway through was probably my favorite. Ironically the gay parts were not super interesting to me. Poor Melanie though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Homophobia, Racism, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

nannahnannah's review against another edition

3.0

I realize this is pretty much a classic, and I recognize that it's very well written and everything, but I never, ever want to read it again. In fact, I hated reading this.

I know the importance of autobiographical works by LGBT people, I do! But sometimes, as a wlw myself, reading accounts of so much nastiness happening to people like me is ... beyond depressing. Yeah, I get how meaningful and powerful these accounts are, especial for historical reasons, but I could barely get through this.

Maybe it's just me. Maybe I just couldn't handle more homophobia, or maybe I just couldn't handle reading about an abusive household like the one I grew up in, even if the circumstances are/were completely different. I don't know. I appreciate the book and the author's experiences (and how damn strong she was and still is), but I couldn't enjoy the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia

Moderate: Racism and Child abuse

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

nappingcat's review against another edition

funny hopeful reflective sad

3.75

A strange, funny story about a girl growing up in Lancashire amongst the Evangelical community. What really struck me was the humor in this: wistful, knowing, wide-eyed, an innocent childlike belief that manages to illuminate the quirks and help us process even the difficult, harrowing moments of growing up in this particular community. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

there is a brief mention of a sexual encounter between an adult and the underage (in her teens) main character that occurs in a really emotionally fraught moment. it is brief (about a paragraph) and non graphic, but though she doesn't say no aloud, she does say that she

"hated it and hated it, but would not stop"

nicnevin's review

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

A semi-autobiographical account of a life of a child brought up in an extreme religious background and the backlash she received when her lesbianism was discovered, I couldn't put it down. I found my mind wandering through on the fairy tale aspects - I was vastly less interested in those than the actual story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Grief, Hate crime, Homophobia, Medical content, Racism, Adult/minor relationship, Outing, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Bullying, Child abuse, Classism, Colonisation, Emotional abuse, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Death, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Torture, and Toxic friendship

thelightabyss's review against another edition

reflective fast-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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Religious bigotry and Homophobia

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

ha1yan's review against another edition

challenging emotional fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Medical content

Minor: Racism