Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Walk the Vanished Earth by Erin Swan

9 reviews

vanlir's review

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse

kyra_hinton's review against another edition

Hints at pedophilia, on page assault, and child pregnancy all in the first two chapters. Couldn’t keep going. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Pregnancy

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Medical trauma, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

hyena's review against another edition

adventurous dark inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Incest, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Forced institutionalization, Car accident, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

dannyclarke's review

challenging emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Sexual violence, and Violence

biggshelf's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Incest, and Sexual assault

bailey_the_bookworm's review

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.5

Challenging and weird and very, very grim at times. Climate change, reproductive freedom, and so many other issues are right at the surface here. Gorgeously written and hard to put down, but also tough to read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Murder, and Pregnancy

lesbianclerics's review against another edition

This book really made me ask myself questions and think. Questions like, "where do we draw the line between dark content and torture porn?" And "At what point is a book so feminist it wraps back around to misogynistic?"

Erin Swan has somehow managed to pass both those points. The first few chapters had me hooked. I was rambling excitedly to my mom about how much i enjoyed the writing style, and I'm generally a fan of books which jump back and forth in time.

Then the uncles got weird about Moon. Then I realized Bea was 12, not 17ish like I had assumed. The final nail in the coffin was Paul's first chapter. I realized that the only thing I cared about at this point was Bea's time in the hospital and her recovery. I read Paul's chapter, barely, but it was so boring i mostly skimmed it and the one-paragraph description about how the doctor basically just gave up on Bea. I decided to follow suit and gave up on the book. Unfortunate, because i really did like the writing style.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Forced institutionalization, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Medical content, Kidnapping, and Death of parent

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and War

Most of the things in the moderate list barely slipped out of graphic just because it is described in metaphor and HEAVILY insinuated rather than explicitly described. It is very obvious though, and this is just what i got to in the first 115 pages.

jojo50's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

Weirdest book i ever read. Engaging enough that I didn't want to stop reading it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Sexual assault

Minor: Kidnapping

bookswithjk's review against another edition

adventurous sad medium-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? Yes

3.5

A soft, fantastical climate change story - it was not what I expected, but I did thoroughly enjoy the book. There were elements that sounded magical (Bea and her giant) but ended up being ordinary in the end.

I am very curious though how they managed to build a rocket ship after the world essentially ended, and why the babies were born so different from their mothers (could be an effect of living on Mars, or maybe something was done to make them genetically more “hardy” for Martian life, but it isn’t explained). <\spoiler>

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse