Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

The Book of Night Women by Marlon James

3 reviews

windspice's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad

• 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Racial slurs, Racism, Blood, Child death, Colonisation, Drug use, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Slavery, Suicide, and Misogyny

reachingforstardust's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Slavery, Sexual assault, Misogyny, Miscarriage, Murder, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Gore, Racial slurs, Torture, Colonisation, Physical abuse, Blood, Racism, Rape, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

Minor: Suicide and Abortion

rosiewants2read's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

The plot is good and interesting. It seesaws between boring and exciting. The dialect can be a little hard to pick up especially if you are totally unfamiliar with it, (it wasn't hard for me to understand) but I think once you get going it becomes easier. The only thing that would have made this book a 5/5 for me would be if the language wasn't so crass. Sexual violence and assault is described in (in my opinion) unnecessary detail and without any respect or care for the victim(s) or reader. If you are triggered by sexual assault or violence I strongly advise that you do not read this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, and Blood

Moderate: Ableism, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Dementia, Murder, Pedophilia, and Torture

Minor: Antisemitism

The language is very crude. P*ssy is used OFTEN