Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

Le Dieu des Bois by Liz Moore

300 reviews

coffeegrlreads's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional inspiring mysterious tense medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Eating disorder, Abandonment

Moderate: Drug use, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Murder

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

umbrionna's review against another edition

4.75

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Grief, Alcohol

lorit1227's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous emotional sad fast-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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Kidnapping, Grief, Alcohol, Classism

katrinarose's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Interesting mystery with family drama, time jumps, and a satisfying conclusion!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Blood, Grief, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Death, Homophobia, Infidelity, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Pregnancy

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Dementia

gir1dinner's review against another edition

4.0

dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

janayemontero's review against another edition

4.0

dark mysterious sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming

rachel_garris's review against another edition

3.5

mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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I wanted to love this so bad. It started off really strong, but the slow pace and excessive detail became a drag on the story. Like 90% of the men are HORRIBLE and the women are mostly great but not given enough space and time to breathe and be fleshed out. For how long this book is the characters were kind of flat. I disliked that several of the character storylines towards the end start to resolve themselves off page and they’re reflected on later by a different character. 

I listened to the audiobook and it is incredibly difficult to keep track of all of the different POV‘s and all of the different timelines. I’m sure it’s easier in a physical copy but I had to look up a character sheet at 15% in because it was confusing to track. So I would say unless you’re up to the task a physical copy is better. 

It’s a book that says a lot when 1/3 of the time it doesn’t need to say anything at all. While I did not predict the ending exactly, it was really obvious to me after 20% in where the author is trying to lead you is not where the story is headed. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Mental illness, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Classism

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

karly_ackley's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

madsss247's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Blood, Murder, Abandonment, Classism

Moderate: Confinement, Physical abuse, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Fatphobia

clarklyn's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional mysterious 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Grief, Gaslighting

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Drug use, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Murder, Gaslighting, Classism