Reviews tagging 'Pedophilia'

A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler

15 reviews

ekmook's review

emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Hate crime, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Medical trauma, and Death of parent

lilysgalvez's review

dark emotional informative sad 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, and Suicide

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Rape

alaina's review

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Pedophilia, and Racism

becksreadsbooks's review

emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia and Suicide

Moderate: Child abuse, Racism, Rape, and Sexual assault

snslayer's review

dark sad tense slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

A short book but a long read. I did not like this book but I can't help feeling it might have been a good book nonetheless. The tension is built so well it threatens to suffocate and I had to put the book down frequently because it made me so miserable to read it. I thought it was bad in the first half of the book but it only got worse in the latter half, forced into the perspective of a racist pedophile. 

This book was well-crafted but I couldn't in good conscience recommend that anyone read it. It felt a lot like misery porn with no point. I'm sure there's an audience for that, or someone who needs to read this story to learn empathy, but that someone isn't me.

ETA: I live in a community in North Carolina, likely the type on which the community of this novel is loosely based, and I am just trying desperately to figure out who in the hell has ever found a person charming or attractive because they do their own commercials? Every single "small business" commercial starring the owner is terrible and offputting and I don't know anyone who feels anything for that owner except secondhand embarrassment. This is obviously very minor and totally beside the point but I cannot stop thinking about it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Pedophilia, and Sexism

Moderate: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Gun violence