Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Il Libro della Polvere: La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman

10 reviews

nadiaherondale's review against another edition

adventurous challenging tense slow-paced

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

3.75

Although I didn't enjoy this one nearly as much as I did the original trilogy it still is a good book: after all it's written by Philip Pullman and he is a narrative master. I loved the storytelling and the little cameos and the spying subplot, but in the end some parts felt repetitive and I ended up bored.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Sexual assault and Sexual content

whatsnack_'s review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Animal cruelty, and Stalking

Minor: Sexual content, Sexual assault, Gore, and Pedophilia

tifftastic87's review against another edition

adventurous emotional fast-paced

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

4.5

I really enjoyed this book a lot. It was such a quick and good read and it was wonderful to go back into the world of Pullman. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, Police brutality, and Child abuse

Moderate: Sexual assault, Classism, Vomit, Sexual harassment, Physical abuse, Torture, Sexism, Religious bigotry, and Blood

Minor: Sexual content, Gun violence, Ableism, Alcohol, Animal death, Racism, Gaslighting, Alcoholism, and Rape

angelbabe_cj's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Animal cruelty, and Murder

Moderate: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, and Violence

Minor: Sexual assault and Sexual content

idailf's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, and Sexual content

katie_345's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

2.25

I really enjoyed the characters and the storyline, however it was too dark for me I especially didn’t like the animal cruelty - it made me feel uncomfortable and a little bit sick reading it.  

P.s this book left some stuff unresolved as it’s a first of three, also this book doesn’t really talk about Dust or get into it in nearly as much detail as it does other topics ... the title could be misleading but we might find out more about dust in the follow up novel (not that I’ll read it for fear it will mentally scar me!😂 😳)


“This was all very difficult “- Malcolm   - I hear ya Malcolm, me too!

“Then there was the word Dust, with a capital D as if it wasn’t ordinary dust but something special.” - Malcolm 

“The weather office, so highly regarded by some of the drinkers at the trout and disdained by others, did what they always did and told their attendants exactly what they could have seen by looking at the sky.” 

“It’s a nice life being a baby!” - Malcolm 

“Nothing she had ever seen or heard  , had pleased her more then this crazy plunge down a waterfall in the total darkness” - Malcolm 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Animal cruelty, Blood, Death, Gore, Murder, Hate crime, and Sexual content

Moderate: Cursing, Pedophilia, Police brutality, Murder, and Physical abuse

Minor: Alcohol, Gore, Bullying, Cursing, Gun violence, Hate crime, Vomit, and Medical content

jackie_b's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

Good book that was more similar to the feeling of the tv series, his dark materials, rather than the original golden compass books. I would say it moves past the age range of young adult and deals with more adult topics even though the characters are young.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty

Minor: Alcoholism, Child death, Cursing, Death, Grief, Murder, Sexual content, and Torture

wolfthorn's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious slow-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? It's complicated

3.0

 I have to say that it's not the most exciting book to start off with. It's really slow and nothing happens for about half of the book. It definitely got better once the flood appeared, there was more excitement after that point.  Just a shame that it took so long to get to it!  There were some parts towards the end that didn't make a lot of sense:

Spoiler

the island with the odd lady, and the garden

.  I'm not sure if they'd have made more sense if I'd read the full series.  I did like

Spoiler

the river god

though, that was nicely done.  

There's also some parts which I have found to be rather unsuitable for a children's/YA book. There's two mentions of paedophilia, two different characters have a known attraction to young children, one for girls and one for boys. The main character is an eleven year old boy and there's a discussion about using him as bait in order to blackmail the relevant character! There's also a vague sex scene, although it's more along the lines of 'these two characters are having sex' rather than anything graphic. That all makes for rather uncomfortable reading. However, the attempted rape was very disconcerting.  It's a kids book!  

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder and Gun violence

Minor: Animal cruelty, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual content, and Violence

kayciedoom's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Death, Child abuse, and Blood

Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Pedophilia

vulturetime's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Sexual content, and Child abuse

The child abuse refers to one specific group that comes later in the book—it references an example of what they’ve done and they also drug babies. There’s also a story about the Church converting people and spreading that idea again.