Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

El Consentimiento by Vanessa Springora

33 reviews

mondovertigo's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Eating disorder and Abandonment

maddy_paddy07's review against another edition

inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

Beautiful and inspiring, springora has an incredible grasp on language and tells her story incredibly. Her words not only survive but thrive with the translation that so often renders books unreadable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Alcoholism, Eating disorder, and Suicidal thoughts

Neglect

horizonous's review against another edition

challenging dark sad fast-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Stalking, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, and Sexual content

Minor: Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Sexual harassment

◦ Mental illness = Depression, psychosis, PTSD
◦ Sexual violence = Ephebophilia, grooming, statutory rape [at least since 2021, before that there wasn't an age of consent in place in france, having sex with a minor could be prosecuted but carried much lighter penalties than rape]

joeyleigh14's review against another edition

challenging hopeful tense fast-paced

5.0

Consent is a powerful reclamation that explores the “affair” that the author had as a teenager with a grown man, as well as the culture around her that allowed this to happen.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia

Minor: Sexual content and Suicide attempt

reaga_lking's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

maree_k's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Pedophilia, and Sexual content

travelseatsreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

5.0

An absolutely gut-wrenching and harrowing memoir of the abuse that Vanessa endured at the hands of the somehow celebrated author Gabriel Matzneff. This was such a hard one to read but I am so glad Vanessa took the power back and rewrote her own story rather than the vile fiction GM has portrayed as truth for far too long. 

Not only is the sustained abuse carried out by GM so horrific, the whole underlying back story and surrounding events whereby adults were not only aware of but almost celebrated his actions in the form of his "literature" is downright stomach-churning.

This book raises so many questions on the flaws of society and how people often just stand by and left horrific events develop and fester before their eyes.

A very tough read but worth it to give Vanessa Springora her voice to tell her truth.

TW for child sexual abuse.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship

julja's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Pedophilia, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

alien0r's review against another edition

informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Drug abuse

shelfobsessed's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse and Sexual content

Minor: Drug use and Mental illness