Reviews tagging 'Pedophilia'

The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor

16 reviews

mithrun's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

it was a fun read, there’s some strange plot holes and loose ends but the mystery wraps up kinda succinctly. 
definitely do not read if you are squeamish about violence wrt children!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Sexual assault, Religious bigotry, Murder, and Death of parent

Moderate: Pedophilia

Minor: Child abuse

luverbyrd's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Pedophilia, Abortion, and Violence

anniesbookpicks's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Pedophilia

Minor: Body horror

rochelleisreading's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Murder, Emotional abuse, Death, Self harm, Blood, Sexual assault, Violence, Death of parent, Cursing, Bullying, Rape, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Animal death, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Adult/minor relationship, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Alcohol, Abortion, Car accident, and Classism

A boy is raped orally. It is very disturbing, and the event is brought up a handful of times afterwards.

meeshell89's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Ahhh this book was great! So creepy and messed up! Loved all the twists and turns and I really liked the alternating chapters from past to present. Definitely gave me Stephen King’s “It” vibes. Love the tag line of the book- “everyone has secrets” .. oh yes, yes they do!!! So glad I picked this book up! Now I feel like re reading it to pick up on all the little clues scattered throughout. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Bullying, Death, Murder, and Rape

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Alcoholism, Religious bigotry, Blood, Animal death, and Dementia

Minor: Car accident

glut's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Child abuse

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Abortion

Minor: Suicide, Child abuse, Addiction, Mental illness, Pedophilia, and Death of parent

ripxw's review against another edition

dark emotional fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual assault, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Grief, Abortion, Death of parent, Suicide, and Dementia

Minor: Animal death

_mayhemily_'s review against another edition

dark mysterious sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• 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: Sexual assault, Rape, Religious bigotry, and Pedophilia

beckyyreadss's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.0

 Thank you, Michael Joseph Penguin Publishing, for sending this book in a welcome pack in exchange for an honest review. 

In 1986, Eddie and his friends are just kids on the verge of becoming teens. They spend their days biking around their sleepy English village and looking for any excitement they can get. The chalk men are their secret code: little chalk stick figures they leave for one another as messages only they can understand. But then a mysterious chalk man leads them right to a dismembered body of a child, and nothing is ever the same. 30 years later, Eddie is fully grown and thinks he’s put his past behind him, but then he gets a letter in the mail containing a single chalk stick figure. When it runs out that his friends got the same message, they think it could be a prank – until one of them dies. That's when Eddie realizes that saving himself means finally figuring out what really happened all those years ago. 

I really enjoyed this book – it was messy and weird, but I feel like it was the writing style. It was bizarre but it worked by the end. At the beginning, my head was completely battered. I was so confused and it sort of had to go round the bend and back again but at the end I understood the plot. Eddie is a messed-up kid and really should have gone to therapy when he was younger because the actions he took as a child and an adult were weird and messed-up. Like all those children involved are messed up and desperately need therapy. It sorts of shows that everyone is always hiding something.  

If you really want to read a messed-up book that will screw with your mind, this book is for you.   

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Abortion, and Murder

Moderate: Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Blood, Bullying, Pedophilia, Religious bigotry, and Sexual assault

Minor: Death of parent

lucy__342's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

I really enjoyed it throughout but it didn't reach my expectations as well as the title being misleading. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion and Sexual assault

Minor: Pedophilia