Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

56 reviews

edenangus's review against another edition

reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse, Grief, and Rape

Minor: Racism

irahann's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad 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? No

2.5

I initially rated it 3 stars. But after some time now, I feel like it's more like a 2 ½

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Death, Murder, Violence, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Stalking, Child death, and Blood

aj222's review

dark emotional slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Pedophilia, Rape, and Violence

librari's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, and Rape

Moderate: Murder

thresholdgirl's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Child death, Pedophilia, Murder, and Child abuse

maewinter's review

challenging dark emotional sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Kidnapping, Murder, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Violence

Minor: Racism and Suicidal thoughts

bexsur's review

challenging dark mysterious sad tense

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Child death, Child abuse, and Kidnapping

readerintheruemorgue's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Grief, Infidelity, Murder, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

Minor: Animal death

ivassavi's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Kidnapping, and Pedophilia

phantomgecko's review

sad medium-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? No

3.0

This book is about grief and how it affects a family. Full stop. It's tempting to treat it like a crime novel, but it just isn't.

I think it's effective with its subject matter. Five family members, five different ways to deal with grief.

Though frustrating to me, the narrative choice to let the killer get away with it was the right one. Like, he was found out but he was never caught, and that makes sense here.

In other news, the body-swapping love scene was dumb. I think the novel would have been legitimately better without this.

Confession: I read this book about 10 years ago and literally couldn't remember what happened at all, so I decided to reread it. That's not to say the novel is forgettable, but rather my brain holds book plots poorly.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Pedophilia, Child death, Child abuse, Grief, Death, Infidelity, and Murder