Reviews tagging 'Pedophilia'

De stenen goden by Theo Scholten, Jeanette Winterson

8 reviews

zannayo's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-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

4.25

The message of this book is ultimately hopeful but it's in a bittersweet way and there's a pretty heavy narrative tone overall.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Violence, War, and Classism

Moderate: Misogyny, Pedophilia, and Trafficking

Minor: Gun violence

remuslibrary's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Grief, Colonisation, War, and Classism

Minor: Cancer and Cannibalism

sanafarooqui's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Pedophilia

tigertheory's review against another edition

adventurous challenging reflective tense slow-paced

4.0

I don’t yet truly know what to make of it, but it was a touching read and I couldn’t put it down; read it all in one afternoon. Highly recommend if you’re up for a challenge. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Pedophilia, and Colonisation

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Gun violence, Sexual content, and War

Minor: Cancer, Confinement, Drug use, Rape, Suicide, Islamophobia, Cannibalism, Abortion, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Re: Pedophilia

This book takes place in a future (past?) where the age of consent is 14 and sex with children (rape, I should say) under that age is commonplace. However, the narrator sees this very critically and judges it. It is only pertinent for about half of the book.

thebankofbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.5

I have absolutely spent most of this book confused but in the best way possible. It’s such an intense novel with such important topics. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Colonisation, and War

alliee's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Pedophilia, Police brutality, and Trafficking

magicalghoul's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

Love circular stories, love the unending search for a place to call home, love the criticism of consumerism and late stage capitalism.

Not too keen though, on the tendency the narrative had of putting all of humanity in the same bag for the sake of its connecting narrative. I really wish that just as much as it criticized capitalism in-text, it did the same for colonialism— at times it even felt like it was romanticizing it, just for the sake of a metaphor that didn't quite land. 

For example I don't think that colonialism and genocide perpetrated by very white nations when "discovering" the "New Worlds", or mass consumerism and ecocide due to corporatocracy, should've been drawn as a parallel to what happened in Rapa Nui (who's never referred by its actual indigenous name) for a cautionary tale. Even less so coming from a white author.

It does have beautiful turn of phrases though, but I think I would've liked it better as a space opera.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Genocide, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Body horror, Fatphobia, Racism, Xenophobia, and Trafficking

Minor: Sexism

Fatphobia, racism, xenophobia, sexism: The first half takes place in a late stage capitalism super city where all isms are present. They're challenged in text. Pedophilia/Child Abuse/Trafficking: MC meets a character that wants to look like a teen to please her pedophilic husband. Later on, the MC has to go talk to the husband while he's in a brothel where child trafficking takes place. Colonialism/Imperialism: Cited and referenced all through the text.

freja's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Grief, and Colonisation

Minor: Body horror, Racial slurs, Medical content, War, and Deportation