Reviews tagging 'Pedophilia'

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

62 reviews

bookishvampiratelycan's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child abuse, and Pedophilia

maddie_can_read's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This book gives me a weird sense of nostalgia, I read it for the first time at 17/18 and it was my first foray into speculative fiction. 

I think it's the perfect combo of speculative fiction, interesting writing, characterization, intriguing plot, and weirdness.

The only bad thing about this book is that you can never get the first reading experience back once you know what happened to the world. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Adult/minor relationship, Trafficking, Child abuse, Violence, Death of parent, Infertility, Classism, Abandonment, Gore, Death, Cursing, Blood, Sexual assault, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Torture, Sexual violence, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Genocide, Child death, Sexual content, and Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism, Rape, Addiction, Alcohol, War, Animal cruelty, Excrement, and Infidelity

Child sexual abuse/ trafficking

pearlisarobot's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Abandonment, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Pedophilia, Murder, Death, Toxic friendship, Drug abuse, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Alcohol, and Trafficking

camiboha's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Trafficking, Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, Murder, and Blood

mereas's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.0

Cli-Fi (climate change science fiction) at its best.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Sexual content, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Trafficking

Moderate: Classism and Death

Minor: Animal cruelty, Death of parent, and Murder

vetrina's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

What a great book! I absolutely loved the writing style and how Atwood switched between past and present timelines seamlessly. The world-building and plot is amazing, very dark, and shocking. It's a great critique of capitalism, eugenics/genetic engineering, technology, the pharmaceutical industry, classism, and climate change. And it's a great exploration of human nature in general too. Very excited to read the next book (The Year of the Flood).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Pedophilia, Animal cruelty, Trafficking, Violence, Child abuse, and Death

Moderate: Classism, War, Genocide, and Alcoholism

smeagol357's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I loved this book so much. It dragged me over broken glass, put me on soft mattresses, and then whacked me in the head unexpectedly. Has to be one of the best books I’ve ever read. Strongly recommend to everyone. Do not ignore the trigger warnings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Sexual content, Animal death, Murder, Blood, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Sexual harassment, Misogyny, Rape, Animal cruelty, Gore, Gun violence, Medical content, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: War, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

filisia's review against another edition

Solely relies on settings, overtly sexual scenes involving minors in small parts, and whatever we learn about the characters remains superficial even as we move through flashbacks (that don’t bridge any gaps in our initial discoveries of the state of their world and how it came to be). Lots of drawn out details of memories that never add anything by way of character development/understanding or to the plot or setting. I listened to the audio book and even 4 hours in it was tough to stay engaged. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pedophilia, Sexual content, and Sexual assault

miaaa_lenaaa's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

Maggie A youre such a slay
What an icon
This is quite fucked and and quite fucking wonderful

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Murder, Rape, Grief, Pedophilia, Misogyny, Classism, Alcoholism, Blood, Child abuse, Death of parent, Trafficking, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Body horror, and Abandonment

sealreads's review against another edition

dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• 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: Pedophilia and Child abuse