Reviews tagging 'Pedophilia'

The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood

11 reviews

vanesst's review against another edition

mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Pedophilia, and Infidelity

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Abandonment, Animal death, Grief, and Suicide

Minor: Cancer, Drug use, Alcohol, and Antisemitism

lay_kone's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Alcoholism, Pregnancy, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Animal death, Antisemitism, Sexual assault, Domestic abuse, Grief, Death, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Incest, Physical abuse, Murder, Cancer, Rape, and Suicide

Moderate: War

Minor: Abortion

lauuwz's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pedophilia

missbrookss's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-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

2.0

This book literally put me in a reading slump and I will never forgive Margaret Atwood.

Also massive trigger warning for multiple instances of r*pe of a child. I would not recommend this book tbh. Like at all. 

Three women are personally victimized by the femme fatale type taking their limp men. I just quite frankly can’t stand a cheater trope and I really can’t stand that the men cheating in this story are not the villain, the woman is. And then of course by the end of the story we get this weird flip towards sisterhood? Make it make sense. 

These girlies are so freaking obsessed with Zennia and her body, it was very uncomfortable. Like are you mad she took your man or are you mad she didn’t choose you. I know Atwood is supposedly a genius so I’m giving the benefit of the doubt and saying - I think or hope, I guess, that all of this is intentional. Maybe. But also considering how first wave her feminism is, it may not be. It may just be a shite book. 

The pacing is all over the place and it’s relatively overwritten. She spends a lot of time talking about boobs and genitalia. Very confusing for supposed star writer and feminist icon Margaret Atwood. I wish I had never read this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Pedophilia

aecorsilva's review against another edition

challenging reflective tense slow-paced

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

5.0

i’d never read atwood before, but she’s easily become one of my favourite authors. i originally picked this up for the “male fantasies” quote, but soon became enamoured with atwood’s vivid prose and great talent for writing female characters. while the book can be slow at times, this is largely due to the density of the language, which still works in the book’s favour. a haunting portrait of female relationships, the robber bride is an incredible book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity and Pedophilia

analia's review against another edition

challenging dark funny mysterious sad tense 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, and Suicide

volcanogirl's review against another edition

mysterious reflective tense slow-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

2.75

This book has written by a white woman syndrome with a sprinkling of insanely graphic sexual violence. There's some interesting stuff for sure in here but it's difficult to get past the setup

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

libelle's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

chloemakesbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark sad 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

As with all Atwood books, I feel like there are eight layers here I need to peel back. I could read this three more times and not catch everything. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Suicide, Pedophilia, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Homophobia

begla's review against another edition

challenging mysterious 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Pedophilia and Child abuse