Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis

43 reviews

malloryballory's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, and Sexual content

Moderate: Gore and Stalking

Minor: Mental illness

booksandbulletjournaling'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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug use, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug use, Sexual content, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Toxic friendship

serafinamariac's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Biphobia, Body horror, Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Incest, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Antisemitism, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Outing, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

levtitticus's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Cursing, Homophobia, Vomit, Medical content, and Car accident

elektracaganis's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

det va en väldigt bra, intressant & spännande bok!! den va kanske lite segstartad, fast typ ändå inte ??? spänningen trappades verkligen upp successivt under hela boken vilket jag gillade !! 
det va dock väldigt mycket ”male gaze” men jag antar att det är pga den utspelar sig på 80talet & att då va allt så jävla kvinnligt & manligt & hemligt, så det passar la!

varning dock, väldigt grova beskrivningar av ganska så sjuka mord & sex om det stör er! kram

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, Sexual content, Violence, and Murder

alineh's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Murder, Outing, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

readwithharry's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

OH MY GOOD GOD. This book is PHENOMENAL, but needs to come with some serious trigger warnings - if you want a spoiler free description, think of a cross between ‘American Psycho’, ‘The Secret History’, ‘These Violent Delights’, and then add some teenage nihilism, drugs, sex, and private-high-school rich-kid drama. 

Admittedly, there were a few points where I actually had to stop reading, but that comes with reading Bret Easton Ellis. 

Ellis is gifted at describing moments in time, and at capturing a ::feeling::  

This is a complete and utter mindfuck, yes, but if you’re prepared for the dark stuff, i could not recommend this more. I read this pretty much non-stop for 6 days, and my copy of the book is now heavily annotated and highlighted (and drenched with my tears - and my tea when I spilled it in shock). 

Nostalgic, lustful, and extremely powerful - literally couldn’t recommend this more. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Drug use, and Sexual content

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

not_to_day's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, and Homophobia

Minor: Addiction

cindylchap's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

If you love reading pornography, namely detailed homosexual pornography (which was about 99.99% of it. The rest of the less detailed sexual acts were heterosexual with a sprinkle of pedophelia), then this book is for you. The actual story line probably amounted to about 1/8 of the entire book and that is most likely being generous. This really was not a “coming of age” story. Not only that, the dialogue was not even congruent with the age of the characters. These were teenagers but conversing like experienced adults. I also found it unbelievable that these teenagers know how to make specific cocktails, know exactly what is in one just by the taste, and serve home made margaritas at their secret teen parties while their parents are away. The only reason I kept reading was because I always try to finish a book and I wanted to know what happened in that tiny little plot that was interspersed here and there 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Drug use, Pedophilia, Sexual content, and Alcohol

ladybergart's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, Vomit, and Alcohol