Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Água Fresca Para As Flores by Valérie Perrin

11 reviews

jo845's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Moderate: Infidelity, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Grief, Car accident, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Cancer, Suicide, Vomit, and Pregnancy

Beautiful translation with lots of unexpected twists. Sad but I didn’t cry. Lots of choices made by the characters that I don’t agree with but I couldn’t put it down and finished in two days.

aleilvandrea's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Cancer, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Violence, Medical content, Murder, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

Minor: Homophobia, Self harm, Vomit, Stalking, and Lesbophobia

srm's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

What a stunningly beautiful book. And such unique characters, who I just love. Honestly, I'm a little too emotional after just finishing it to write much more. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Infidelity, Grief, and Abandonment

Moderate: Suicide and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Sexual content and Alcohol

helen's review against another edition

4.0

I really liked the main character, Violette. She’s a French woman in her late 40s who works as a cemetery keeper (a job I didn’t know existed), tends her garden, and opens up her house to the grieving. When her past is slowly revealed, I felt a great deal of empathy for her.

The writing is beautiful and evocative - I could clearly imagine the cemetery and Violette’s kitchen.

The book is too long though. The story jumps backwards and forwards in time, and incorporates different side plots that are connected by fate and coincidence to the main one. Every time we left the cemetery to follow the story of another adulterous relationship or the mystery of who was responsible for a tragedy 20 years ago, I just wanted to get back to Violette, her steady strength, and her warm home full of cats and gravediggers.

There are some dark and disturbing themes (see content notes) so I really appreciated the moments of humour

(e.g. when she learns to ride a unicycle in order to pretend to be a ghost and scare away some trespassing teenagers)

and the hopeful ending.

Content notes:

child death, grief, adultery, rape, on page sex, adoption, foster care system, manipulative parents, unhappy and unequal marriage, alcohol abuse, suicidal thoughts

 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Infidelity, and Grief

Minor: Rape, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

mgbell0712's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

catandherbooks's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

5.0

Read the 400+ pages that make this masterpiece of a novel in ONE (1) day - mostly because I needed to return it to the library soon but also because this exquisitely written book is so addictive, I loved this story and the character development and everything else about it. Violette has become one of my favorite literary characters and I don't think I'll forget about her any time soon. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Death, Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Death of parent

paperquilt's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, and Grief

Moderate: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

mimima's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

At first, I though that this was a gentle story, but then we veered into a LOT of

bad choices and adultry

. Maybe it is more French sensibilities than US? Having said that, the things that it says about grief, beauty, love, parenting, and our stories ended up winning me over. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Infidelity, Sexual content, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

internationalreads's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death, Drug use, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Grief, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

fatima_'s review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Child death, Incest, Sexual content, and Car accident