Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

The Perfect Child by Lucinda Berry

4 reviews

ashielovestoread's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring lighthearted mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This might just be the most disturbing book I've ever read, or the most disturbed I've ever been and I've read a lot of disturbing books, but this just tops it in a very weird way. I just wanted to read a thriller... I'm gonna take a breather and read and watch some fluffy stuff, cause my last read was also very disturbing...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

toofondofbooks_'s review against another edition

fast-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

3.5

I liked a lot about this one and hybrid reading it (audio and on kindle) really added to the experience and made me feel more immersed in the story. I don't think the writing was the best ever but the story in general kept me wanting to know what happened. The very end did me very dirty though. if you know you know. Now I'm gonna start the companion novella to this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Self harm, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Grief, Murder, and Abandonment

Moderate: Addiction, Sexual content, and Alcohol

erica_reads_things's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense 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

2.75

Finished this listen feeling ultimately pretty disappointed, which is unfortunate because this book had the potential for some good, freaky shit. But the ending was just so bland and lackluster. The third act was so fun to speculate about

was Janie really a devil child? traumatized and misunderstood? was Hannah right or delusional?

So much potential to really play with that, which made the ending a bust for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, and Abandonment

Moderate: Infertility, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Medical content, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Miscarriage, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

raine83's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious 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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

I NEED TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS NEXT!!! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infertility, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Torture, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, and Abandonment

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Infertility, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, Grief, and Alcohol