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emmiemopho's review
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
my “Whyyyy stephenn???” List:
Bag of Bones 1998
Bag of Bones 1998
-referring to a child as being an exotic taste
-“Breasts”
-His classic racism towards Japanese people
-The way he mansplains what masturbation is
-Blue balling
-His sex scenes take me out
-The question of “did I rape the 5 year old?” In his sleep and wasn’t necessarily upset about it
-The list of all the things you can (and shouldn’t) call a black man
-At first screws his wife and then R’s her corpse in dreamland
-V.C. Andrews is regarded as his professional enemy (interesting)
-Mal-formed Dwarves might turn him on? Was that a joke? Why was that placed during a fantasy thought???
-He always has a tangent about fat people
-Women in need of help are to be sexualized completely.
-“Stroking”
-Just some other proof the main character is him: MC talks about naming the book he’s writing “bag of bones”.
-Regains a trust point: MC does not like black people being called bad words-although is this black people generally done or is it specific to the band he likes so much? So maybe not so much of a trust point.
-Over half way and he mentions something the little girl says sounds Vietnamese & exotic
-Whenever someone mentions how young the MC’s crush is, he imagines her in a vulgar way and seems to have an obsession with her being just above legal.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Infertility, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
Minor: Fatphobia and Blood
slimshaedy92's review against another edition
I was thoroughly uncomfortable with the 40-something year old writer lusting after a 21 year old widowed mom for 300 pages but gave him the benefit of the doubt until he decided to act on it (and still no concrete information about the supernatural part.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content and Toxic relationship