Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Nefando by Mónica Ojeda

19 reviews

seaweed657's review

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Excrement, and Dysphoria

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

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

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

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

readingwithgoose's review

challenging dark mysterious reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Mental illness and Excrement

moss_martii's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Gore, Incest, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

cnversehigh's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, and Blood

danidamico's review against another edition

1.0

No me gustó para nada. El terror que está hecho solo para shockear me parece aburrido, flojo e innecesario. En ningún momento sentí que hubiera una verdadera historia, algún tipo de profundidad o contenido más allá del horror en sí, de las ganas de repugnar al lector. Si vas a escribir sobre pedofilia más vale que esté justificado, que sea totalmente indispensable para el relato, como sucede por ejemplo en The Bluest Eye de Toni Morrison. Ojeda utiliza la pedofilia solamente para escandalizar, describiendo todo de manera tan asquerosamente gráfica que casi parece volverse una apología o un material pornográfico.

Las historias que se entrecruzan a lo largo de la novela nunca llegan a nada, nunca culminan ni se complementan, simplemente asistimos a una seguidilla interminable de violaciones, agresiones y abusos sexuales, escenas super detalladas de pedofilia, abuso intrafamiliar, automutilaciones, fantasías sexuales repugnantes. Y lo peor es que no sirven para nada, no generan ningún sentido de totalidad al terminar la novela, ni siquiera es como "El niño proletario" de Osvaldo Lamborghini: un cuento horroroso que sí tiene un propósito, una eficacia, una razón de ser.

Si hubiera sabido lo innecesariamente explícito que es el libro nunca lo hubiera escogido y si no fuera para el club de lectura definitivamente lo hubiera dejado sin terminar.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence