Reviews tagging 'Pedophilia'

Meine Schwester, die Serienmörderin by Oyinkan Braithwaite

80 reviews

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

dark 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Violence, Medical content, and Grief

Minor: Addiction, Drug use, Pedophilia, and Death of parent

ninahuynh's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

4.75

So many characters in this book annoyed me. Points to Braithwaite for creating such full characters that are able to invoke such annoyance in me haha A page-turner, to say the least! And that ending 🙊🙈

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Death of parent, Murder, and Gaslighting

add_a_little_spook's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Pedophilia, Toxic relationship, Blood, Murder, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Infidelity

bluberrybooks's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Pedophilia, Racism, and Medical content

Minor: Ableism, Fatphobia, and Grief

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jei_reads_sometimes's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

While no one in the story was particularly loveable, I found myself absolutely curious as to what would happen to them next. The interweaving of past and present was well executed.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Blood, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Infidelity and Pedophilia

te_ss_i's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Classism

k_readingmorenow's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.25

I couldn't predict the turns of this story, which is saying something as it had this fated quality to the narration. I think I saw this on a list of comedic books, and it is definitely....not that. I can only imagine whoever put it on that list went only by the description and title, because it does have a heaviness to it that can only come from engaging with it over more than a few chapters. 

I listened to the audiobook and found the tone wonderful. I hope to listen to more books by this narrator. Clear, soft, and easy to listen to but with so much emotion and inflection in the voice, it really felt like the narration made it come alive. 

All the characters felt like real people, even the ones we only get a little bit of, and her sister seemed to become more real as we learned more about their life. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism and Murder

Minor: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Pedophilia

vildfarenraev's review against another edition

3.5

While I'm entirely unfamiliar with Nigerian culture and traditions, and felt that I stumbled here as there as a result, I was more curious about learning more than confused. In a lot of ways, it reminded me a lot of the style of East Asian stories that I've read over the years; in terms of tone and tradition vs. modern styles of dress/living/etc.

I really liked Korede as a narrator and her inner conflict regarding if she really should protect Ayoola or not creates a dynamic story. It adds to the question "which of them is the bigger monster?", though by the end of the book, that question changes to "who's behaviour is Ayoola really copying?" Ayoola, herself, is as interesting as she is bratty and - to a certain degree - gives me Amy Dunne (Gone Girl) vibes that didn't click until I started writing this review.

I think I was hoping for more thrills, more horror, but that was based on my expectations based on the title and I quickly accepted that this was more of a domestic thriller than horror. It was fast-paced and easy to read and I would still say it was a solid novel.

Below are some spoiler-filled after thoughts I have:

I'm really curious about the question of whether Ayoola is acting as she does because of the actions of their father on because Korede is the one who suggested they kill him. It's mentioned how Ayoola follows what her elder sister does and since it was Korede's idea to murder their abusive father, is that why Ayoola kills men when the relationships she has change? What change would be necessary? Does it have something to do with sex since their father was killed for attempting to pass Ayoola to a p*d*phile?

I have so many questions but, surprisingly, I'm more intrigued by these questions rather than annoyed by the lack of answers.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse and Domestic abuse

Minor: Pedophilia

ahhhreadzombiez's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

2.75

This book hmm… I got through it very fast (in two days, really) but does that mean I enjoyed it? Well, not exactly. I didn’t enjoy the characters; it’s very hard to read a book when you don’t like a single character in it. And I can’t help but feel I continued to read it because I wanted to just see it through to the end and hope, just really hope that the characters would have some type of development that would make them just a tad bit enjoyable. It was just a tragic story with what felt like no real point. I wish I liked this more, but it just… didn’t do it for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Pedophilia and Rape

markwillnevercry's review against another edition

3.5

If I could, I would have read/listened to this book in one sitting. Instead, I took a break around the 60% mark to go to toilet. This was a wonderful book, that read really fast and didn't leave a bad aftertaste, which has not happened to me in a bit. I do not think this is one of those books, that I will be rereading over and over again searching for what I felt about it again, but not every book needs to be like that. Two sisters are getting through their trauma and not everything is realistic and it is okay and it was a great read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Animal death and Drug abuse