Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

27 reviews

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

Minor: Self harm and Stalking

funofme's review

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Sexual assault

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

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

Moderate: Alcoholism, Sexual content, and Medical trauma

ronniek's review

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

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

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

jazzjhg's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Grief, Stalking, and Murder

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal death, and Alcohol

mallory10100's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-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? No

5.0

god this was so sad 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Infidelity, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body horror, Drug use, Stalking, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Minor: Bullying, Chronic illness, Cursing, Self harm, and Pregnancy

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