Reviews tagging 'Pedophilia'

O Grande Círculo by Maggie Shipstead

35 reviews

libcolleen's review against another edition

Not interested in sexual abuse

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Pedophilia, and Sexual violence

helena_chris's review against another edition

Hard dnf, far too many sexual themes.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, and Pedophilia

_thislineismine's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, and Violence

Moderate: War

lisettemarie's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion, War, Alcoholism, Incest, Pedophilia, Emotional abuse, Rape, and Sexual content

hayleyvem's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Gun violence, Addiction, Emotional abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Pedophilia, Violence, War, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, Infidelity, Lesbophobia, Rape, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Murder, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Death of parent, Abandonment, and Pregnancy

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, and Suicidal thoughts

chloehui106's review against another edition

adventurous challenging informative reflective 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Domestic abuse, Rape, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Alcoholism, War, and Pedophilia

tangleroot_eli's review against another edition

I need to put an indefinite pause on reading non-genre adult fiction by mainstream authors from mainstream publishers. Even the most reputedly "groundbreaking" among them have a resigned conventionality that just... exhausts me, and much of their so-called novelty is authors retreading old ground while trying to one-up each other in how "edgy" they can be.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Sexism

Moderate: Xenophobia, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Death, Incest, Pedophilia, and Sexual assault

Minor: Infidelity, War, Drug use, and Fire/Fire injury

Postpartum depression

redporchinverter's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

Great Circle didn't exactly provide the rip-roaring adventure yarn I was looking for (I keep accidentally reading books with pedophilia), though it certainly has lift whenever Marian's in the cockpit. The ending left me unsatisfied in a way I can't quite put my finger on, but Maggie Shipstead is so skilled at conveying the allure and terror of being unmoored, of oblivion as both self-destruction and self-liberation that perhaps a more cathartic bang of a conclusion would've felt like a betrayal. I would've read a whole book just focused on Marian, Ruth and Eddie in World War II-era England.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Pedophilia, and Rape

kmuttschall's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

"Until she dies, she will wonder if she could have persuaded him to come with her. Until she dies, she will remember Eddie's small, dark figure on the ice, waving to her with both arms as she circles up. She will always be afraid that his valedictory gesture might have changed, at some moment when she was too far away to notice, into a plea for her to return."

"She supposes there will be nothing. She supposes each of us destroys the world. We close our eyes and snuff out all that has existed, all that will ever be. But if she could choose, she would ask for a lift. She would want to rise from her body and have it be like when she'd first gone up with Trout, as though she were being held aloft by pure possibility, as though she were about to see everything."

This book is a combination of all of my favourite books (Milkman, Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, East of Eden) while still managing to be its own distinct entity.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence and Rape

Moderate: War, Alcoholism, Death, Infidelity, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Grief, Animal cruelty, Incest, and Pedophilia

Minor: Abortion

charlieadams03's review against another edition

Didn’t read into the triggers before I began reading it! Felt almost mis-sold this book due to the description of the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Pedophilia