Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

El juego de los deseos by Leire García-Pascual Cuartango, Meg Shaffer

8 reviews

fleur____'s review against another edition

emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Cancer, Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, and Sexual violence

hjb_128's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Grief, and Abandonment

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Miscarriage, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Racism

brimclala's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Cancer and Child death

Minor: Child abuse, Drug abuse, and Sexual violence

piperclover's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.5

This was not at all what I thought it would be but I still really enjoyed it. It is not a fast-paced mystery but instead is a very slow intense and heartbreaking mystery. It gave me so much anxiety and was so sad and so heart-wrenching for 90% of it.  

I loved every single main character With my whole heart. Christopher is a very well written, realistic 8 year old.  Lucy is such a good character because she feels so real. It feels like the author took a person she knows in real life and just wrote her into the story because she has these fully fleshed out thoughts and feelings and reactions and everything she does feels so well suited to the character. 

I loved Hugo's povs and would've actually enjoyed more of them. I appreciate that there are so many povs and they work so well together to give an overall, well-rounded perspective of the whole story. Jack feels like a good balance of meddling rich old man and genuinely loving and sweet grandfather. I adore the ending so so much it makes all the anxiety worth it. 

 I usually deeply dislike any chapters or povs that are not integral to the plot but the chapters where we heard directly from the Clock Island Books were actually enjoyable and useful to the plot and character development. 

There are so many good discussions of what makes a family, helping others, love, what it means to be a parent or guardian. There are some terrible things talked about that I was jumpscared by but I thought they were done as well as those topics could be. I also like that Jack is gay and its openly stated and discussed. The narrator was very good. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Sexual violence

Moderate: Child death, Death, and Death of parent

mollywill's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful fast-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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Abandonment

Moderate: Drug abuse, Miscarriage, and Medical trauma

Minor: Pedophilia and Sexual violence

clr00's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring

• Loveable characters? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, and Death of parent

Minor: Sexual violence

kitausu's review against another edition

emotional hopeful 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

This book had me crying by page 16 and kept me emotional throughout the entire thing. What an absolute lovely gut punch of a book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, and Suicide attempt

guardianofthebookshelf's review against another edition

hopeful sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Moderate: Miscarriage

Minor: Sexual violence