Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

26 reviews

mak_kam's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Animal death, and Child death

gen_wolfhailstorm's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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

3.0

Not sure I've ever had much interest in reading this, only I had a specific book I wanted to get to that's inspired by this - Lord of the Flyfest- (as well as some TV shows, films etc that takes inspiration from this classic) and wanted a better appreciation when the time comes.

Reminiscent of Peter Pan and the lost boys and some really good character analysis of humanity as a whole when faced with struggles. How we try to achieve this collective control at all times but quickly fall down to hysteria and paranoia when faced with the unknown.

I felt like this was a really interesting look at life with an island of stranded boys and how they try to survive the wilderness. 

I know a lot of this probably went over my head and that reflects in the rating as I didn't understand all the themes, but I'm glad I read this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Fatphobia, Child death, Abandonment, Stalking, Murder, Body shaming, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, Torture, Racism, Racial slurs, Physical abuse, Gore, Bullying, Animal death, and Animal cruelty

seapotatohowisitalrtaken's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Child death, Physical abuse, Bullying, Death, Gore, Grief, Violence, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Moderate: Torture

bluelizzz's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Animal death, Blood, Child death, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Violence, Fatphobia, Death, Physical abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Stalking, Mental illness, War, Torture, and Vomit

booknerdz28's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fatphobia, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Excrement, Child death, Gore, Bullying, Animal death, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, and Physical abuse

crazytourists_books's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I am not sure about this book. I found it quite boring at places as the descriptions of the surroundings seemed endless and quite interesting at others. It sure offers some very serious things to think about human nature, but the lack of information about how long a period of time the described events cover and some things that are unrealistic make it unconvincing. 
I've seen a few reviews that people read this book during their school years; I would never, ever, ever let a child read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Body shaming, Child death, Blood, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Murder, Physical abuse, and Violence

caku's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Blood, Child death, Violence, Animal death, and Physical abuse

issyd23's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.0

Atavistic mode activated. Justice for Piggy! About to wack these dumb kids with a conch 2🐷

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Toxic friendship, Violence, War, Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Confinement, Cultural appropriation, Child death, Colonisation, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gore, Physical abuse, and Racial slurs

todrick_the_tree's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Abandonment, Blood, Bullying, Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Murder, Physical abuse, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Racial slurs

traceyanderson's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Body shaming, Body horror, Physical abuse, Animal death, Bullying, Death, Fatphobia, Animal cruelty, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, and Violence