Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Tampa by Alissa Nutting

23 reviews

gnarlykaitlyn's review

dark emotional informative tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual harassment, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Death of parent and Death

Minor: Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Drug use, and Dysphoria

chuckyinspace's review

challenging dark funny reflective tense medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Grief

Moderate: Drug use, Alcohol, Death, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Cursing, Violence, Infidelity, Stalking, Death of parent, Drug abuse, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Police brutality, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, Abortion, Fire/Fire injury, Vomit, and Misogyny

lisettemarie's review

challenging dark tense

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Sexual content, Death of parent, Sexual assault, Alcohol, Child abuse, Stalking, Drug abuse, and Toxic relationship

madelinequinnee's review against another edition

challenging dark fast-paced

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

5.0

Wow, that was truly disgusting.

Tampa does a great job showing the realities of female predators, and how their gender and looks can make them go about their ways completely unseen, and once they’re caught, getting lighter punishments purely because they’re women. This was horrific and hard to read, but I also think really important. 

The writing was impeccable, and the portrayal of an unreliable narrator was done really well. 

Please check trigger warnings before reading because this is very dark and explicit 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Adult/minor relationship, Grief, Incest, Pedophilia, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Alcohol, Child abuse, Death of parent, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

xdawnsii's review

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.0

I'm giving Tampa 3 stars because I honestly don't know how to rate a book like this.

I read this book in one sitting, mostly because I didn’t want to have to pick it up again. This book makes you feel absolutely awful while reading it. It is disgusting and tragic. I can’t recommend this book, because it is such a challenging read.

The end of this book is infuriating. You spend 200+ pages reading the main characters deranged and demented thoughts, holding your breath and continuing to read this book solely for the satisfaction of Celeste Price ending up in prison. This book is a painful commentary about how male victims & female offenders are not taken seriously.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Adult/minor relationship, Gaslighting, Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Death of parent, Drug use, Drug abuse, and Grief

evdark's review against another edition

challenging dark fast-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

3.5

The writing was gripping, and the reason the book was written was important, but the author absolutely failed to deliver the message she set out to achieve. It is based on a true story of a teacher that had sex with her 14-year-old pupil in 2005. Nutting wants to make a point that young men are never seen as victims of sexual assault, and it is too easy to forgive the woman in the situation. Which is exactly how I felt after reading the book. Having just read Lolita, the standard might be set a little high. Psychologically, I can tell this author wanted to be provocative and maybe even erotic but did not truly understand the mindset she was trying to convey in the female pedophile and ended up taking a very male stance to this. Stalking. Obsession with semen. Souvenirs and pornography. It didn't feel authentic to a female pedaphile and this author was just winging it. It was well-written but poorly crafted, and it made me feel icky after reading it even though I have no problem with any of the graphic sex, I had a problem with almost everything else. It did the worst thing a book can do. It wasted my time. The ending was downright awful.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Drug use, Toxic relationship, Infidelity, Death, Sexual violence, Stalking, Injury/Injury detail, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Grief, Toxic friendship, and Gaslighting

love3v07's review against another edition

dark tense fast-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

4.0

Incredibly disturbing. Even more so when you think about the fact that people like the main character really do exist.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Drug use, Infidelity, Grief, Adult/minor relationship, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual content

cassiopeian_star's review

dark funny tense fast-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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual violence, Child abuse, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Excrement, Violence, Rape, Addiction, Blood, Death, and Grief

lordslag's review against another edition

challenging dark fast-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

1.75

Pretty women can be predators!! Now you don’t the have to suffer through 300 pages of little boys getting molested you’re welcome. IMO If this was supposed to have any kind of commentary on rape culture it 100% needed less smut??? Of Celeste assaulting the boys and more focus on how she victimized them and the long-term effects of what she did Or at the Very Least a follow-up where they realize they were abused and failed by the system

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Grief, Rape, Child abuse, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, and Sexual assault

Minor: Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Drug abuse, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

ephemeral_remi's review

challenging dark fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Grief, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Violence, Suicide, Stalking, Alcohol, Abandonment, Rape, Drug use, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Vomit, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death of parent, Death, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Gore, Pedophilia, and Sexual assault