Reviews tagging 'Pedophilia'

Witching Hour by Anne Rice

31 reviews

bookpooh24's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Suicide attempt

mcollier1's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad slow-paced

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

3.75

I hated this book, but it was well written. I'm just not a gothic horror person, and this book was too disturbing for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual content, and Abortion

Moderate: Incest and Pedophilia

damiscous's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Incest, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Medical trauma, Abortion, Death of parent, and Murder

beth6490's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Pedophilia, and Sexual assault

aliennas's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.0

It honestly has no business being this long. The “Yes, rape me!” and the pedophilia, incest and other… uncomfortable aspects of the book were big yikes. That being said, the narrative and the plot in itself is really cool. Part 2 is a clear highlight. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Incest, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, and Pregnancy

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

kenoughbi's review against another edition

4.0

listen i enjoyed reading it for the most part but wtf, especially with the ending

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest

Moderate: Pedophilia and Rape

lilythegoblin's review against another edition

Alot of instances of incest and/or pedophilia. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Incest, Pedophilia, Slavery, Suicide, and Alcohol

If you can make it through the gross parts... the descriptions of architecture and New Orleans was really nice! Just too much ick.

cuteasamuntin's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

2.75

I’m not sure I particularly liked this book. It isn’t a particularly fun or nice read, but I can already tell that it’s going to really stick with me. While it’s slow enough that I was at times impatient for Rice to get on with it, the narrative was still very compelling.

I really enjoyed the family chronology and learning more about the Talamasca. My favorite parts were 1) the deep and pure expressions of familial and romantic love dappled throughout an otherwise grim and haunting story and 2) Michael

in a joyous frenzy over restoring the house, to the point that I was hanging onto every word about his historically accurate and thoughtful renovations

, but the latter is probably just a hazard of my day job.

Funnily enough, I just didn’t care at all about the spirit Lasher, to the point that I found myself actively bored when

he is finally present in the narrative and begins interacting directly with Rowan

. I think this may have been a stronger story without that aspect being so explicitly present. This may, of course, be in part to already knowing the general principles of how spirits/“demons” work in the Anne Rice universe due to being a dedicated admirer of Maharat and her Great Family™ from The Vampire Chronicles. 

For audiobook listeners, the talented Kate Reading really makes this heavy tome a lot less of a slog. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Medical content, Dementia, Murder, and Classism

Minor: Body shaming, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Dementia, Kidnapping, Car accident, Abortion, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Cultural appropriation, Alcohol, and Colonisation

cgrays's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No

2.0

The main characters are incredibly dull and their "romance" is one of the worst put to writing. The book swings between the present with the main characters, to stories going from each generation of the Mayfair witches. 

The sections of the book about the Mayfair witches of the past is genuinely exciting to read, but the main plot is so unbearably awful that it can't lift this book beyond two stars for me. The ending as well, is unsatisfying for as long as we spent with the Mayfair family. 

Oh, and in Anne Rice fashion, there's unnecessarily graphic descriptions of children in sexual situations and some strangely racist undertones. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, and Colonisation

jessies's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Incest, Pedophilia, and Slavery