Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

Le Dieu des Bois by Liz Moore

300 reviews

rao27's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Grief, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body shaming, Blood, Lesbophobia

kalafern's review against another edition

4.0

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Grief, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Classism

tfortilney's review against another edition

3.0

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Alcohol, Classism

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent

mhreads103's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous emotional mysterious sad tense 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Pedophilia, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Classism

Moderate: Animal death, Grief

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Dementia

vschrock's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexism, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Alcohol

Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Forced institutionalization, Dementia, Lesbophobia, Classism

paulabekkerus's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

robinilima's review against another edition

4.75

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Good book if you’re looking for a quick, wealthy family mystery, set in the woods type of read. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Grief

sandysmith's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad 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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The characters in the book are wonderfully written. Told from multiple points of view and different timelines, initially confusing at first and it took me a while to work out that both the name if the character and the time in the story is given as chapter headers. once I had figured this out, the story was engaging and fast-moving . There were some simply horrid unlikeable characters, but there were enough likeable ones to counter this. My favourite characters were Louise and Judy. The themes of the book are secrets, lies, class, privilege, grief, nature, and power.  There were a few loose ends towards the end of the book that had no bearing on the story (Delphine), but other than that, it's an enjoyable mystery with good suspense, a great plot and very accessible writing style.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Grief, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

kryscat1990's review against another edition

4.5

dark mysterious 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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A highly anticipated book for me. I really liked the writing style. I feel like this book was a really well written mystery and it kept me engaged the whole time. I liked the ending. All of my question were resolved. I really liked the characters and the investigator POV. There were a lot of timelines and POVs that would have been hard to keep straight if I hadn’t read the physical copy but I love both of these things in a book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Drug abuse, Grief

Moderate: Domestic abuse

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Dementia, Alcohol

ka_cam's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Fast, addictive read. Sad and frustrating. Good beach read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Lesbophobia, Abandonment, Alcohol, Classism