Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

19 reviews

patydenisse's review

dark sad medium-paced

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

2.0

You think you’ll love the book, but then you keep reading and ask yourself why is this or that on the book, the it gets sooo bad. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Pedophilia, Murder, Lesbophobia, Blood, Sexual content, Death, Addiction, Racism, Sexual violence, Rape, Kidnapping, Infidelity, Grief, Drug use, Child death, Child abuse, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, and Adult/minor relationship

It is not for kids, I would even say teens, there’s explicit sexual content

kryolitee's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional slow-paced

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

2.0

I don’t quite know what to say about this book. It was okay, but I didn’t like the writing style. It had me hooked for the first and the last few chapters but I couldn’t tell you what happened in between. In the middle of this book it kind of started to drag, nothing was really happening and I had to force myself to continue reading. 
Overall I would say that this book wasn’t good but it also wasn’t bad. 2 stars. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Grief, Rape, Animal cruelty, Murder, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Alcoholism, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Medical content, Stalking, Body horror, and Kidnapping

espressoreader's review against another edition

emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

3.0

Interesting take on how Heaven works.  Definitely a secular view on heaven.  The story was interesting.

Author like the sound of Len, Lindsey, and Lynn, quite a lot.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Kidnapping, Grief, Pedophilia, Torture, Sexual assault, Rape, Sexual violence, Murder, Alcohol, Abandonment, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Self harm and Stalking

funofme's review

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Adult/minor relationship

lajoy's review

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Rape, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, and Death

juliebean666's review

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, and Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism, Medical trauma, and Sexual content

ronniek's review

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Murder, Kidnapping, Grief, Pedophilia, and Child death

Minor: Animal death

loggskywalker's review

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

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

5.0

Super sad idea but great execution!! Makes you think about loved ones who have passed away! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Murder, Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Child death, and Pedophilia

rebeccamatthews's review

dark emotional sad slow-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? N/A

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, and Sexual assault

that_bookworm_guy's review against another edition

challenging dark slow-paced

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

1.0

The first 20 or so pages were good, the build up and introduction was shockingly gripping. Parts of this book was good overall, but then some of it was just so cringy and bad that It didn't really balance out with the good parts.

This book literally put me into a reading slump for a couple of months as I tried to drag myself through it thinking that the beginning was so good that surely it would get better. But nope, it somehow got worse. 

Some of the writing is that which I would expect to see on accounts that feature men that write women badly, except instead, this is written by a woman. 

I had high hopes, but the hopes were crushed and burned and buried by the end of this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence