Reviews tagging 'Pedophilia'

The Angel of Indian Lake by Stephen Graham Jones

22 reviews

jillaay_h's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

mlovesbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense slow-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? Yes

3.0

Unfortunately, this is the weakest of the trilogy for me. It just goes too off-the-walls crazy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Gore, Gun violence, Racism, Blood, Murder, and Colonisation

Moderate: Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

tifftastic87's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Jade returns to Proofrock and is trying so hard to keep her life on track, to just be normal. Proofrock has other plans for her though. 

I think this wrapped up everything in such a satisfactory way. The hits never stopped coming though. I kept wanting Jade to get a break, just let her catch her breath! The plot kept moving, the heart strings kept getting tugged and the friendship was overshadowing all of it. I think Jade finally came into herself here, though it was occasionally overwhelming to hear how negatively she feels about herself. That being said, I think it made sense within the plot. Really solid ending for me. 

I wasn't sure it was going to be a five until the last two chapters though, those really did it for me. I am also glad the ending wasn't super crisp, that it left it open a little bit for, as the acknowledgements imply, to let Jade move on. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

shedevls's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-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

5.0

the only downside to this book is that the series is over and i'm really going to miss jade 😭 she's easily one of my all time favourite characters and, even though i'm someone who can never seem to reread books for a number of reasons, i know this entire trilogy is going to be the exception.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Vomit, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Self harm, Sexual assault, and Grief

Minor: Ableism, Child abuse, Confinement, Pedophilia, Rape, Forced institutionalization, Cultural appropriation, and Colonisation

aiden_mr2's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful fast-paced

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

5.0

A fitting end to an incredible series 
I’ve never cried so much for a book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Abortion

itsheyfay's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Racism, Sexual assault, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, and Classism

sofipitch's review against another edition

dark tense 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? No

4.5

An excellent ending to this trilogy. All three books analyze a different part of the slasher formula, book 1 being the final girl, book 2 the slasher and their motivations. Now this one analyzes the endings. At one point it's mentioned that slashers are conservative in genre in that the goal is often to return to how it was in the beginning. That is what a lot of this book is in conversation with, is this really the only ending?
The other strength of this book is Jade's voice, as always. The downside is potentially how little is added to the world and story, this truly wraps up the last two books, doesn't contribute much that's new

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Pedophilia

ehmannky's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-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

5.0

I think this might be one of the best conclusions to a trilogy that has ever existed. The incorporation of horror rules (the Scream 3 rules are references explicitly by characters), the emphasis that the Final Girl does not exist without a community and family supporting her, the idea that to truly cure what ails a toxic society requires you to go and right the original wrong that was committed there and that the original wrong is violence against Native people, specifically Native women...everything is flawlessly done. The prose is beautiful, I was so invested in the characters... truly one of the best endings of a trilogy I could imagine. It is ridiculously violent, with so many deaths that are pointless in that if the characters had just listened or been more careful, they would have lived, but again serve to emphasize the point of a toxic culture leading to more and more easily avoidable deaths. 

 

It has been a while since a character's death hit me so hard, but Banner's had me spiraling in the kitchen at 11:30 p.m. I was so, so sad about it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Blood, and Death of parent

Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault

Minor: Pedophilia, Racism, and Self harm

torturedreadersdept's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Incest, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Colonisation, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

ripxreads's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death and Murder

Minor: Child abuse, Pedophilia, and Rape