Reviews with content warning for Sexual assault - My Absolute Darling

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My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent

62 reviews

leweylibrary's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense slow-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

This is one of the just wild books I have ever read. There are scenes in this book that will never leave my brain no matter how much I want them to, and I'm not really sure how to feel about that?

Lol listen the characters were a bit hard for me to connect with, and I'm not sure I love the ending, and I was expecting something totally different but I also don't know why I was? I feel like this book left me with so many more questions than answers 😅 BUT it has stuck in my brain which is very difficult for a book to do.

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bratz's review against another edition

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dark

0.5

a MALE author graphically writing about the sexual abuse of a 14 year old girl is very strange to me. the way he writes about this CHILD’S body is actually disgusting (

the end of chapter one and the period scene wtf????)

i’m shocked by the amount of positive reviews for this book

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k_isadore's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective 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

4.25

This book was complicated for me to rate. On the one hand, the prose and characterizations are deeply gripping, lush, tangled, and vital. On the other, there were elements of repetition that were just a little too much, straying from illustrating Turtle's life and into something perhaps a little too dear to the author. The characters were rich but also felt a little hard to believe for their ages. But more than any of that, this book was viscerally uncomfortable. There were times when I thought, "Am I participating in something too voyeuristic and sadistic by reading this?" The unflinching depictions of abuse and its physical, emotional, and developmental ramifications were so deeply felt that I felt like an intruder for reading them. This is a tangled, beautiful, twisted read. It is not perfect, and I'm not fully convinced by its ending, but it is powerfully imagined.

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laura_cat's review against another edition

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dark tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Perhaps the most deeply disturbing book I’ve ever read. This book has extremely graphic descriptions of violence and cruelty and I had to skip ahead at times to avoid some of them. I am relieved to be finished with the book. It’s well-written but I’m not convinced that all of the scenes and disturbing imagery were necessary, and I wonder if this detracted from the impact.

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The story was good as far as I got, but unfortunately very quickly there was a SA scene that I did not handle well and I couldn’t continue reading. It went into a lot of detail that I did not expect and was not willing to continue at all. I’m sure it was a great book, but not for me.

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