Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

57 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

mxnidebz's review

emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

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

4.25

I wish they found harvey 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Violence, Sexual violence, and Stalking

the_jamae_way's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Sexual violence

frogreads_'s review

challenging emotional reflective 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

5.0

This book is so bittersweet. If you like people watching but want to see humans in their lightest and darkest moments this book is for you. The point of view is so interesting. 

I just finished this book mere moments ago and the feeling im having is a simultaneous melancholy and hope. It really displays grief well including in the long run. I would recommend this book to anyone. It is really hard to read at times for various reasons but it is worth it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Sexual violence

Moderate: Violence

There is a rape and murder of a child by an adult in the first bit of the book. It is not overly graphic at all, but even so it is really hard to get through

leeshisreading's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.75

I wished to complain about how the ending doesn’t fulfil me.  But I can’t, because life isn’t fair- it isn’t perfect, and therefore I cannot sit here and complain for an unrealistic perspective. Susie Salmon is a cool, compassionate and genuinely kind character- her personality so intrinsically sewn into her narration that I struggle to come to terms with the fact that she is not real. And I believe Sebold had a similar experience in what must be the best, most heartfelt afterward I have ever read:

“Susie has turned out to be more powerful than I could ever be. I may have created Susie Salmon, but I hold no doubt that it is the act of letting her go that redeems me.”

Overall, it was beautiful- i didn’t like the relationship between Samuel and Lindsay to begin with, but I will blame that on the sisterly bond I felt with her- this underlying need to protect her, just like Susie. It only increases my love for the book more that it was able to make me feel such a way. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Grief, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Rape, Sexism, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Murder, and Pedophilia

freddybingsu's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Child death, Death, Murder, Sexual violence, and Pedophilia

Minor: Animal death

emileesbooks's review

I think it just got to be too much for my 12-year-old brain. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Child death, Stalking, Grief, Sexual violence, Death, and Murder

sarahsbookss's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense 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? No

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Violence, Blood, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Rape, Sexual violence, Grief, Murder, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Infidelity, 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

greenrequiem's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual violence, Grief, Violence, and Child death

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Rape, Sexual assault, and Xenophobia