Reviews tagging 'Infidelity'

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

27 reviews

midnightbelles's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

It took me a while to sit down and read this fully but when I finished I was glad I did. I enjoyed this despite boarder-line having an anxiety attack after every mention of Mr.Harvey. I think it’s a well written Book however and I would recommend reading it. Despite it being really sad and heartbreaking it was interesting to read about the Salmon family and to experience this loss with them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death, Grief, Murder, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Stalking, and Violence

Moderate: Infidelity

Minor: Cursing, Kidnapping, and Torture

travelthrupages's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Murder, and Rape

Moderate: Abandonment, Alcohol, Death, Grief, Infidelity, Pedophilia, and Suicidal thoughts

faizoo's review against another edition

emotional 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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Rape

Moderate: Infidelity and Grief

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

haileymundell's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Infidelity, Murder, Pedophilia, Rape, and Violence

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

kaleidoscope_heart's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad slow-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Death, Grief, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual violence, and Violence

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Medical content

Minor: Addiction and Adult/minor relationship