Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood

48 reviews

jade_sanderson's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Violence

Minor: Rape

sassacass11's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-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? Yes

4.5

Such a turbulent story to experience. It was heartbreaking, and truly a controversial situation that the story focused on. How the solace of one abused, traumatized girl, is another person’s unforgivable circumstance of life. 

It was heart wrenching, and eye opening. Challenging to read but if you can do so with an open mind, there is much more to this story than meets the eye. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Child abuse

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

Minor: Eating disorder

klasco94's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Abandonment

yinzer_barbie's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Blood and Abandonment

megsk22's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Car accident, Murder, Abandonment, and Alcohol

hkershaw28's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

lizsabby's review against another edition

1.0

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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Content Warnings

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

crystalstarrlight's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Drug abuse and Drug use

kkrebo's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

2.75

This honestly was a really tough read for me. :(

I love the writing and concept but the pedophila was too much for me. While I get that Wavy and Kellen’s relationship is supposed to supersede the taboo because their love is true - I couldn’t get past it. I truly loved the concept and themes but I just couldn’t get over it sorry!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Blood, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, and Alcohol

beccadyerhair's review

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Death of parent, and Murder