Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

22 reviews

loggskywalker's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-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

5.0

Super sad idea but great execution!! Makes you think about loved ones who have passed away! 

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Content Warnings

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

rebeccamatthews's review

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, and Sexual assault

that_bookworm_guy's review against another edition

challenging dark slow-paced

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

1.0

The first 20 or so pages were good, the build up and introduction was shockingly gripping. Parts of this book was good overall, but then some of it was just so cringy and bad that It didn't really balance out with the good parts.

This book literally put me into a reading slump for a couple of months as I tried to drag myself through it thinking that the beginning was so good that surely it would get better. But nope, it somehow got worse. 

Some of the writing is that which I would expect to see on accounts that feature men that write women badly, except instead, this is written by a woman. 

I had high hopes, but the hopes were crushed and burned and buried by the end of this book.

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Content Warnings

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

jazzjhg's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Animal death, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

mallory10100's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-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? No

5.0

god this was so sad 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Grief, Medical content, Child death, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Violence

Moderate: Abandonment, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Body horror, Drug use, Gaslighting, and Stalking

Minor: Bullying, Chronic illness, Cursing, Pregnancy, and Self harm

wow 😭😭😭

lilalovestoread's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Child death, Murder, Sexual assault, Kidnapping, Adult/minor relationship, Grief, Rape, and Death

mandi4886's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective 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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Grief, Animal death, Blood, Sexual content, Gore, Mental illness, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Body horror, Animal cruelty, Gaslighting, Murder, Rape, Child abuse, Death, Kidnapping, Infidelity, Medical trauma, Sexual violence, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Alcohol, Confinement, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Torture, Bullying, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Pedophilia, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, and Suicide

Minor: Lesbophobia, Dementia, and Adult/minor relationship

caitvb's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Adult/minor relationship, Murder, Violence, and Rape

aguattery's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Thought I was doing totally fine throughout reading this and then got to the end and sobbed. Holy cow, what a story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, and Child death

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Sexual content

tardycreative's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Body horror, Murder, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, and Death