Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Nefando by Mónica Ojeda

24 reviews

piperback_books's review

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Child abuse, and Sexual violence

Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death

booksybookbooks's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Blood, Body horror, Torture, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Domestic abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Adult/minor relationship, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Dysphoria

alixfitz0926's review

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.75

that was. a lot. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Rape, Child abuse, and Incest

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Violence

Minor: Xenophobia

xlizabeth's review

challenging dark fast-paced

4.75

This book was fucked up but I couldn’t stop reading, so well written. 

I will admit there were some paragraphs I had to skip because I couldn’t mentally handle them.

An incredibly brutal character study about suffering, trauma, and desires of some very very troubled young adults.

Check TWs. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Incest, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Child abuse, and Gore

Moderate: Drug abuse, Excrement, Gun violence, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Religious bigotry

zeebjeeb's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense

4.0

This books is dark, disturbing and unsettling…but that’s the point. Ojeda wants you to understand pain, to make you uncomfortable and get under your skin. There is graphic content which was too much for me, but I understand that that was the point. We think of people who hurt people as monsters but they are just as human as the rest of us, “they weren’t victims of monstrosity, but of humanity”. This is a multi media story introducing us to six troubled characters all coping with trauma, redefining their trauma through art. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Violence, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

zoesauve's review

challenging dark sad tense slow-paced

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

1.0

I loved Ojeda’s book Jawbone, which was also really disturbing and dark. But this one… this one was so nasty it made me feel physically ill to read. 
I think Ojeda and the translator, Sarah Booker are both really talented at the craft, but I really wonder about what the point of bringing this stuff into the world is. 
I truly don’t see the value in dredging up this deeply disgusting stuff with no redemption. I feel sick from reading it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Pedophilia, Child abuse, Sexual violence, and Animal cruelty

readingwithgoose's review

challenging dark mysterious reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Animal death, Sexual assault, Rape, Physical abuse, Confinement, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Sexual content, and Blood

Moderate: Excrement and Mental illness

karla_burbujadeletras's review against another edition

challenging dark informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual violence, Body horror, Pedophilia, Animal death, and Child abuse

valeriaperez261's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Monica Ojeda tiene el talento de poner las situaciones mas tétricas y extremistas posibles y hacerme sentir como que soy una intrusa en la historia. Me parece muy curiosa la exploración del trauma de manera explotativa.

 Nefando en mi opinión es una manera de explorar el trauma de estos tres hermanos. Es el equivalente tétrico y asqueroso de escribir un memoir. Ellos crearon el juego para ellos mismos y decidieron que era lo suficientemente grotesco e importante para dejar que más gente viera lo que pasaron. 

¿Es exponer a gente del internet a pornografia infantil la manera más sana de superar el trauma? Not really, pero al mismo tiempo me parece un movimiento de poder. La creación del juego fue su manera de tragarse a su padre, su forma de quitarle su autoridad. 

La única razón por la que no le doy 5 estrellas es porque siento que los personajes deberían tener más historia y voz si son ellos los que cuentan la historia. En caso por ejemplo de Ivan que sabíamos que estaba sufriendo de disforia de genero y aún así no se exploró o aportó nada a la historia en general. 

En fin, sé que Nefando se publicó antes que Mandíbula y creo que al comparar ambas novelas se puede observar un gran avance y crecimiento en la voz de Ojeda. 

Can’t wait to read La Historia de La Leche :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Child abuse

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death

mariana_ab's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm and Child abuse