Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell

464 reviews

datadog1's review against another edition

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia and Child abuse

mandi4886's review against another edition

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Murder, and Child abuse

kleinekita's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

I don't know how to feel.

No one in the book is reliable or can be trusted, but it seems to be true that Josie and Walter's relationship began when she was a teenager and he was in his forties. HE IS A PEDOPHILE AND SHE WAS ABUSED. No matter what happened later or if she "manipulated him".

The audiobook has great production though, 5 stars for that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Rape, Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Incest, and Stalking

Moderate: Grief, Kidnapping, Death, Death of parent, Excrement, Infidelity, and Confinement

bibliophilola97's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Child abuse and Alcoholism

flying_monkeys's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

2.0

Hooked me from almost the first page, and the first half was fast-paced and had me asking all the questions, but then I got the ick. Why?

It started to read like we're meant to believe that because a 15-year-old girl may be a psychopath, she wasn't a victim of grooming/SA by the 42-year-old man she ends up marrying at 18. I kept on reading, my thought process being, maybe this is simply the viewpoint of the pedophile, but no, others started to say it. Their "testimony" supporting the notion that the crazy, narcissistic teenager was at fault. That it was all her doing.

For me, the book plummeted from a 4-star read at that point.

I will say, I actually enjoyed the ambiguous ending because, to me, the whole point of this story is the malleability of memory and truth, and while an unreliable narrator is, well, unreliable, they are telling us their truth from their (perhaps curated) memories. This makes them suspect and we can never trust anything they're telling us. Certainly some of what they're saying could be true, but how can we tell the truth from the lies? And how do we avoid invalidating their real experiences when buried under a mountain of selective truths?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Stalking

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death of parent, and Pedophilia

Minor: Confinement

josiemeyer's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Toxic friendship, Murder, Abandonment, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Sexual harassment, Death, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

kimac2's review against another edition

5.0

AMAZING! This is the best audiobook I have ever listened to. A full cast with music. It’s structured so it really sounds like you’re listening to news interviews etc. 
I didn’t see any of the twists coming. I wish I could delete the memory of this one so I could read it again right away. I was on vacation in Yellowstone and Grand Teton and I couldn’t put it down. Will be recommending to anyone I know that likes thrillers. Definitely going on a Lisa Jewell binge now. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse and Sexual assault

andreahski's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad 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

4.0

Near the end you can kind of guess how it’s going to shake out,  but I still very much enjoyed reading it and looked forward to finding out how it was all going to come together at the end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Child abuse

ktdaugherty's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Murder, and Domestic abuse

julesfrigault's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Abandonment, Mental illness, Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Murder, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, and Stalking