Reviews tagging 'Pedophilia'

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

198 reviews

lanceypoo's review against another edition

Writing style was pretty good. I was struggling with pacing and then a pretty graphic (in my opinion) sexual assault scene on a minor occurred and I just couldn’t keep reading it 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia and Sexual assault

unqualified_mc's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Murder

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Vomit

mayaep's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, and Murder

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Sexism, and Injury/Injury detail

corabookworm's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Overall plot was slow but lots of fast paced action scenes and stuff. Really liked the plot. Good combo of dark academia and fantasy and mystery. Got a little confused by the multitude of plot twists at the end but worked it out eventually. Alex is a fun character. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Domestic abuse, Gore, Sexual content, Blood, Murder, and Alcohol

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, and Fire/Fire injury

robinlovesrain's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

4.0

I didn't really feel gripped by this book until about halfway through - the pacing up front was a little slow, and there's a lot to learn about the world. But at about that halfway point, something tipped, and once the book had me, it HAD me. Dark and mysterious and violent and magical. Really really great read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

evilspazcookie's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

0.25

SA , child SA, hard drug use, mind control. Started good but deteriorated

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Excrement, Vomit, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

cjfooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.75

I really didn’t know how to feel about the start of this book - it wasn’t at all what I was expecting that’s for sure. But by the time I finished it, I enjoyed it enough to want to read the sequel. 
There are definitely a couple of scenes that seem unnecessarily violent (one in particular that feels very unnecessarily sexually violent - and this is coming from someone who loves the horror genre) so 110% check the trigger warnings for this.
In the end, I loved the spooky university, cult, rich prejudice vs low-middle class, Illuminati vibes with a cool main character, a unique concept, and loads of suspense, mystery and world building(?). 
But didn’t love the sexual violence (some of it fair enough for the plot, some of it not), and that I wasn’t mentally prepared for how f*cked up some scenes/concepts are. 
Would I recommend it? For just the right person, yes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Vomit, and Murder

maryyyyyy's review against another edition

2.5

‼️Trigger warnings definitely need to be published at the beginning of this book! If they could dedicate an entire page to information about the type face, they could have dedicated a page to avoid triggering or traumatizing readers.

This book has rape (including rape of an underaged girl), graphic murder scenes, drugs/drug overdose death, and a lot of violence and gore. It constantly reminds the reader of all of the gruesome ways that people can die. Some of it felt like it was just added for the shock factor. Somehow all of the characters just continue along like they don't all need therapy 🙄

Loved the magic and lore behind this story but it was much more graphic and violent than what I generally prefer to read. My bad for not doing my due diligence, but also their bad for not publishing any TWs in the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

majthedragon's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

kallan11's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious slow-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Bullying, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, and Murder