Reviews with content warning for Pedophilia - All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

Glorified and celebrated pedophilia, plain and simple. I don’t care about the nuance of the protagonist’s childhood and trauma; there is no such thing as a “love story” that begins with a 20-something year old man and an 8 year old CHILD.

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a_bos's review against another edition

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dark emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

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

4.75

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kristinvhall's review

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challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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taylorjd's review against another edition

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challenging medium-paced

2.0

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crystalstarrlight's review against another edition

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dark slow-paced

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

1.0

Bullet Review:

Did you ever wanna read about how a rapist grooms his child victim and how it would have been totes okay for him to marry his barely 14-year old victim if only it wasn't for her pesky aunt calling in the authorities and working diligently (at the expense of her marriage!) to get him incarcerated?

If you thought "Lolita" was a horrible book because of the way it "glorified" Humbert's fucked up perception of Dolores, then avoid this like the plague. Because instead of playing Kellan's predatory behavior as what it is, it's considered twoo WUB.

Despicable. I don't need to read statutory rape apologism. Sad because the writing and the way the author creates characters is exemplary.

Also, given the author's backstory, this reads as a book written to justify the abuses that were done to her.

Lastly: they may not have had penis-in-vagina sex when she was barely 14, but Kellan fingered her. That's still sex in my book and for many other couples (such as lesbian couples).

ETA: Leaving a couple of recent articles here for good measure:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/13/us/politics/roy-moore-alabama-senate.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/theater/kevin-spacey-gay-anthony-rapp.html

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2017/10/05/rose-mcgowan-calls-hollywood-complicit-after-harvey-weinstein-allegations-surface/737198001/

http://time.com/5015204/harvey-weinstein-scandal/

These are the PUBLIC ones. Many more stories of adult men grooming children and/or sexually harassing children are out there.

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