Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Watchmen by Alan Moore

19 reviews

magneto's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Blood, Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Animal death, Bullying, and Racism

Minor: Child death, Cancer, Child abuse, Vomit, Antisemitism, Racial slurs, and War

raynestorm's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Sexual harassment, Death, Violence, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Sexual assault

vinegardad's review

dark tense medium-paced

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

5.0

The og dark superhero store, the blueprint for shit like Man of Steel and Batman’s darker side. Brilliant but  really messed up. I annotated this book 😭😭

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Sexual violence, Violence, Ableism, Death, Rape, Homophobia, Gun violence, and Child abuse

noahhare's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Violence, Rape, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Lesbophobia, Gun violence, Gore, Genocide, Emotional abuse, and Death

Moderate: Blood, Cursing, Death, Violence, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Abortion, Body shaming, Cancer, Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, and War

urfavpunk's review

adventurous challenging dark tense 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Murder, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, and Vomit

nojerama's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Try to read it in one sitting if possible, my experience was very scattered and therefore I lost a lot of the effect so don’t do what I did. Still an excellent book and a good example of how to write asshole characters who you can still (kinda) root for. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Infidelity, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Vomit

This is 18+ for a reason. Do not give this to a kid. I can’t have that on my conscience

scripturient's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

Ugh, I think I'm done with Moore. You'd think the man should be capable to write a SINGLE female character without having her raped and/or tortured, but apparently not. That's just laughable character development.
The plot was interesting in parts, other parts bored me to death, but overall, I just don't get the hype at all. But maybe I was too focused on the rampant sexual violence and misogyny, who knows. I think I'll stick to other writers from now on.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Homophobia, Trafficking, Toxic relationship, Pedophilia, and Mental illness

noaregine's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

2.75

Oh boy, this one is complicated. For me, it swung back and forth from incredibly successful to incredibly pretentious in what it was trying to say. None of the characters were likeable at all, and some were straight up monsters, but that was a complexity I liked a lot, I think. Some characters who were morally 'right' about the big issue, were terrible, terrible people. That doesn't sit right with me, but that was the point. The overarching plot of communal strife will unite us fell a bit flat, as the world today proves that isn't really true. I don't know, I'm rambling. I liked parts, and struggled through others. What I did like, more so than the art style, was the smart page layout and panelling. That's something to really pay attention to when reading, more than I've ever encountered in a comic before. What I loved most about this was that it was a gift, and it wasn't necessarily on my radar or anything. Nothing makes me happier than receiving a book handpicked by someone else like with this one :).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Cancer, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

Minor: Child abuse, Genocide, Grief, and Homophobia

tenten's review

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

3.5

i watched it to make more sense of the HBO series. it was good and i can see why it's a classic. but it was written by a white man in the 80s — not to say that white men in the 80s cannot write or are inherently bad or whatever i just mean, it's a product of its time and creator. it's overly cynical,  quite sexist on occasion, included period-typical homophobia, everyone is white except two side characters. some of the topics introduced are not handled well, which is largely my point because i don't except the average white man in the 80s to really understand some of these things. it's not incredibly clear to me whether some of the writer's own views are expressed through the characters but even so, most of the characters kinda suck, including my fave Dr Manhattan.

but i think that's what makes the story compelling and stand up to the test  of time....or whatever? i think it's not as deep as it was trying to be in some places. but it was good for what it's worth and i can see why it's considered a classic. i definitely prefer it to Moore's other famous work, The Killing Joke — the only good thing to have come out of that was Oracle, then DC went and ruined her by ~curing~ her disability 🙄

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, Violence, Sexual content, Misogyny, Gore, Gun violence, Confinement, and Blood

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Minor: Drug abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Torture, and Trafficking