Reviews tagging 'Pedophilia'

Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James

77 reviews

rainstormdragon's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Pedophilia, Rape, and Murder

jessthanthree's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Drug use, Homophobia, Incest, Pedophilia, Excrement, Cannibalism, and Classism

Minor: War

quietnyx's review against another edition

I almost always give books 100 pages to hook me, but I couldn't stomach any more than 60. Almost every page, of what I read, mentioned the rape of men, women, children, or animals and I couldn't do it. I also wasn't prepared for it; a lot of the positive reviews about this book seem to skim over this aspect and I'm not sure why. It is also incredibly slow and made me feel like I was reading the first draft ramblings of a man who wants you to think he's smarter than you. Every piece of dialogue was a riddle that felt like it was only written to be quoted in some literary circle jerk about all the ways you can describe genitals and gore. I'm sure his writing style is for someone, but it's not for me.

I thought the premise was interesting, but it's lost in the long-winded, tedious prose that would have really benefitted from a good editor. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, and Violence

allisonporta's review against another edition

After the 4th or 5th rape in less than 200 pages I couldn’t bear reading another page. This book is so awful. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

Moderate: Pedophilia and Rape

Minor: Rape

ambergrewal's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Gore, Pedophilia, Rape, Slavery, and Violence

local_hat's review against another edition

Because honestly, nope. See trigger warnings.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, and Pedophilia

abbyleinbach's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark slow-paced

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

4.25

I don't think I could ever explain this book to people, but I really enjoyed it. This is not a book I would recommend to everyone, but the story really enthralled me. 
This is a dark, unhappy book. There's rape and murder in fairly graphic detail. Every character is morally grey. If that's not something that you enjoy, I don't recommend this book. What kept me reading was the world building and the relationships, platonic and romantic. 
One thing I did not like about this book was the main character's hatred towards women. I don't think this went unexamined, but I also feel like ultimately, his hatred was validated. 
If you decide to read this book, I highly recommend reading the book and listening to the audiobook in tandem. That really helped me to understand it and get through it. Seeing the maps was also helpful and was very fun.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Incest, and Pedophilia

samanthand's review against another edition

Disgusting, dense, and pretentious. Was a struggle to even get to 150 pages.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Gore, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

mollyzilla's review against another edition

The violence against women, the pedophilia... Despite being intrigued with this book, it just gave me too many icky feelings.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual violence, and Violence

taleofabibliophile's review against another edition

I just wasn't finding myself bothered about reading this. I tried to give it a good chance as I've heard if you get so far in its worth it, but I just don't think this is for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Cursing, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, and Fire/Fire injury

Other CW: FGM, beastiality