Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Your House Is on Fire, Your Children All Gone by Stefan Kiesbye

12 reviews

sare1125's review

adventurous dark emotional 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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Incest, Sexual assault, and Murder

cait_henry56's review

challenging dark funny

5.0

A brutal read, up there with Requiem for a Dream but before Fight Night by Miriam Toews. Another reflection on the resiliency (apathy?) of people to their circumstances. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, and Rape

Minor: Incest and Sexual violence

jane_moriarty's review against another edition

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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Child death, Death of parent, Murder, and Alcohol

Moderate: Incest, Rape, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cannibalism and Deportation

owlribbon's review

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Ableism, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Incest, Infidelity, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

obliivion's review

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Incest, Rape, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Cannibalism

emilyyjjean's review

dark sad medium-paced

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

3.0

Everyone in the village is messed up. Very disturbing from beginning to end, but doesn’t get too into detail. I did like how each chapter was a different story from a child from the village, but still had a overarching timeline. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Rape, and Violence

_forestofpages's review

challenging dark mysterious sad 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

2.0

** For your own sake read the content warnings **

This book was well written, with great use of metaphor and weaved German fables and superstition into the reality of the story's setting very well. That is all I liked about it.

This book has no plot and no real conclusion. It is a peek into a small cursed town full of horrible and violent people doing awful, vile things. I don't see a purpose to it except to disturb the reader. I got nothing from this book except a bad taste in my mouth.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, Incest, Racism, Sexism, Xenophobia, and Sexual harassment

morganperks's review

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

alternative title: you're house is on fire, your children low key set it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Murder, Pregnancy, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Body horror, Body shaming, Pedophilia, Stalking, and Death of parent

Minor: Animal cruelty and Abortion

qi_'s review

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

1.75

really wanted to watch it but ended up being quite disappointed. 

it started off quite intriguing as we were first being introduced to all the perspectives. it was still confusing but at that point all the weird events from the circus dude who was apparently the devil to the weird sexual adventures. 

however, as the story began to progress and the story lines became intertwined but still quite distant i lost interest. i struggled to grasp what was going on and i failed to care for any of the characters since we changed it up so quickly. i also found it difficult to distinguish the chapters/perspectives since they are all written in the first person perspective. 

i definitely feel like a lot of the twists went over my head so i didn't really get the full effect since they were written in such a confusing and obscure manner. i didn't find anything creepy or spooky, the atmosphere was there but if anything the events in the book were just weird but nothing more. 

sad i didn't enjoy it that much :(

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Physical abuse, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Stalking

Minor: Animal cruelty

rachelunabridged's review

dark sad 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, and Murder