Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders by Neil Gaiman

5 reviews

mery_cf's review against another edition

First strike: casual mentions of pedophilia, completely unnecessary for the story).
Second strike: “she died unmarried and unmolested” like that means it’s an unfulfilled life… gave me the ick, I stopped reading at this point. How is unmolested something bad?! that is how I wish everyone would die

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Forced institutionalization, and Murder

Not just pedophilia, but more specifically underage sex workers. And the author first describes (briefly) the interaction, but only at the end of the short story do you find out that they were underage all along, and not at all close to an appropriate age.

devermismysteris's review against another edition

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

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Gore, Suicide, and Murder

bookishtraveler's review against another edition

I love Gaiman but this collection of short stories just kept getting darker and darker.  I stopped at the one with child sexual violence and abuse.  I might pick it up again but it came on the heels of dnfing "Earthlings" for the same reason.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Excrement, Trafficking, Murder, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

ronan_lesh's review

dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, and Murder

Minor: Sexual content

naomi_k's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Murder, and Alcohol

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Incest, Pedophilia, Torture, Blood, and Cannibalism