Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

Der Geisterbaum by Christina Henry, Sigrun Zühlke

18 reviews

directorpurry's review against another edition

challenging mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Racism, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Racial slurs, Body shaming, Eating disorder, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Pedophilia, Violence, and Death of parent

Minor: Pregnancy

czoltak's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

2.0

I honestly don’t know what happened with this. This book started out really well and then just fell apart more and more as the story went on. This was entirely too long and did not need to be over 400 pages. Especially since the ‘big reveal’ happened basically 100 pages in. I don’t understand why Christina Henry felt the need to reveal the twist so soon. Also the racism in this was over the top. This is not that old so why did it feel the need to fall into the trap older books have of beating us over the head with the fact that a character is bad with almost constant racism. News flash, I already knew the character was bad I didn’t need to listen to her racist ideals for pages and pages. And then, in the same story she wanted to have powerful conversations about female empowerment 🤨 which fell completely flat. I honestly don’t get this book and hope Christina Henry stays in the lane of Near The Bone instead and stays far away from this kind of writing again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Blood, Death, Toxic friendship, Adult/minor relationship, and Death of parent

julesjb's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Gore, Racism, Toxic friendship, Blood, Child death, and Death

sonygaystation's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Cool concept but muddy execution. Especially towards the end. Plus i felt the slurs and vitriol to express racism was so unnecessarily too much

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Death, Child death, Racial slurs, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Racism, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, and Grief

Moderate: Death of parent, Sexual content, Murder, Gun violence, Hate crime, Adult/minor relationship, and Vomit

Minor: Body shaming, Medical content, Emotional abuse, Deportation, Pregnancy, and Infidelity

harleyqueen's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Loved it but at times felt like it read so fast that you would lose sense of what's happening. There is a town under a curse where once a year a girl has to be sacrificed to the ghost tree but when the wrong sacrifice is offered all rules no longer exist

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Eating disorder, Body horror, and Gore

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Alcoholism

sunshinestark's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Racism, Death of parent, Death, and Adult/minor relationship

noodletime's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

3.5

I thought the premise was interesting, but derivative. IMO, the author should have shown her cards later and spent more time on the build up. The characterization was good, but the age gap in the main romance was offputting and grossed me out. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, and Blood

meecespieces's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Gore, Racism, and Violence

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

Minor: Gun violence

an_d_r_e_e_a's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Racism and Death

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

mushio's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

3.0

The focus on sexualising underage girls, to the point that is the entire character of one, with no real reason makes it a weird read.

The ending felt quite rushed and dissapointing for all the build up it was given. Plot points were barely round up at the end.

The premise was quite fun though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, Xenophobia, and Child death

Minor: Alcoholism