Reviews tagging 'Pedophilia'

زومبي by Joyce Carol Oates, أحمد م. أحمد

15 reviews

grizelybear'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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

This was a disturbing and incredibly miserable read. There was no respite or reversal of circumstance at all. It was depraved and messed up through and through. The most horrifying thing is that some people probably do think this way and to be honest, after letting this book sink into me for a while, I'm actually feeling chilled and a little terrified.

I'm rating this a 3.5 because this was not an enjoyable book, but in terms of what it wanted to achieve, which was apparently to take us into the mind of a fucked up degenerate, it definitely succeeded in all fronts. This was an uncanny (and disturbing) character study, and for that, I do salute the author.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Racism, and Racial slurs

caidyn'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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Absolutely disgusting, yet I enjoyed it a lot. Just like Dahmer and ripped from the headlines.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Pedophilia, Murder, Death, and Cannibalism

gryd's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Mental illness, Child abuse, Child death, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Gore, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Rape, and Sexual harassment

chuckyinspace's review against another edition

dark medium-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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Torture, Gore, Mental illness, Medical content, Sexual assault, Rape, Racism, Kidnapping, Pedophilia, Death, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Slavery, Hate crime, Xenophobia, Misogyny, and Ableism

magepersephone'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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Rape, Murder, Sexual assault, and Torture

cinderrunner's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

This is such an incredibly unique book and it brilliantly achieves what it sets out to do. The flow of the writing is very odd and takes a bit to get used to. But it also allows you to reall  get the sense of living in the mind of someone as deranged as Q.P. Oates did a remarkable job getting into the mind of someone like this and creating their inner world so vividly for us. This book feels uncomfortable to read and it does an excellent job at making you truly hate Q.P. 
The only reason it isn't 5☆ is that the flow and pacing does feel really confusing when you start and that makes it hard to get into the real flow things and understand the plot. I also take issue with the author choosing to make her sadistic and extremel  sexually driven (and perverted) serial killer a gay man (when the stereotype has always been that they are predators). Especially given that this novel was written/published on close to the end of the aids epidemic when gay men were being treated even more vilified than normal. Even if Oates did not intentionally mean to create such a dangerous stereotype I cannot believe that she wasn't at least subconsciously biased by homophobia when writing. 
Definitely worth checking trigger warnings. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Blood, Body horror, Murder, Child death, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Rape, Stalking, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Gore, and Sexual content

chibichaostan's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense slow-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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Violence, Stalking, Gore, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Sexual violence and Rape

gringolet's review against another edition

dark reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.25

A meandering, disturbing book that goes nowhere on purpose. A threatening air of mundanity.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Sexual violence, Slavery, Blood, Homophobia, Murder, Pedophilia, Torture, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Mental illness, Death, Rape, Sexual assault, and Violence

helen_is's review against another edition

So incredibly violent & way too confronting for me. I skipped ahead to the last couple of pages & can't see that there is a point to the violence/sexual abuse... it's just horrible

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Murder, Violence, Torture, Sexual violence, Rape, and Kidnapping

tailwhip's review against another edition

dark tense

• 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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cursing, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Murder, Pedophilia, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Homophobia