Reviews tagging 'Pedophilia'

Gone to See the River Man by Kristopher Triana

28 reviews

missgrangerr's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

THIS BOOK! Easily one of the best books I have ever read. This is one that settles into your bones and will not let go. I will be thinking of this book for a long time. If you can handle strong trigger warning situations I would highly recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

goldbs's review against another edition

challenging dark fast-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Incest, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, and Murder

Moderate: Ableism, Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Violence, and Blood

Minor: War

annet_xy's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Medical trauma, and Murder

ohlisaline's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-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

2.0

This book was really good starting off, I really enjoyed the short and well-paced chapters, as well as the little flashbacks and snippets that broke the main plot up. 
I didn't know much about the book going into it and when some of the themes of this book emerged, I felt very put-off. But that's on me for not checking TW's. 

>SPOILER< Something that completely broke the tone of the novel for me, and felt borderline ridiculous, was the scene of Lori and Abby finally getting into the River Man's hut. The flaming footsteps, the pool of blood, the heavy metal guitar-playing old demon dude. It felt silly and didn't have an impact on me other than confusion.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Incest, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

zombie_loves_books's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

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

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Incest, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

alexlouise97's review

dark tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, and Medical content

tmyoutzy's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

Gross

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

readingbyte's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gore, Incest, Rape, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Ableism, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Blood

ashofadummy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense 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

4.25

OMG i loved this book! Its disgusting in the best way possible, and i loved how it blenda fantasy and reality? horror, i thought it would be more of a creepy supernatural being in the woods kind of book but it wasnt i loved that. The ending is fitting but kinda lame, I think that after everything that happened it was a little bit hurried/didnt get the amount of words it deserved? i would loved it if it. was a lottle more detailed.

I loved how yo start fellong pity for Lori and her sad lofe, thinking that maybe this thing for serial killers is just a way to spark her boring life, and wanting the best for her in this creepy situation she got into, but when you start to learn about her past you just want the river man to tear her apart. I think it was a perfect way to pass the book, i hate when horror books just take innocents lives to shock you more. /

Overall i think it was a good read to get our of a reading slump but the werinig, althought beatiful at parted, needed to be better at some points, specially develpment-wise. I loved the idea of intercalating present, past and the letters but theres something in how this is written that makes me go ehhhh.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Suicide attempt, and Murder

Moderate: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Racism, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Vomit, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and War

jellybean_gene's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

3.25

Unflinching and in your face, this is one of those novels that I would only recommend to hardcore horror fans.

That said, I believe the execution and storytelling were excellent. Some scenes were difficult to get through, but that was kinda the point. That said, at a certain point it felt like it was introducing more disturbing content just so it could. The

brother's death served virtually no purpose whatsoever

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Child death, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Sexual violence, Blood, Murder, and War