A review by nerdysread
Playground by Aron Beauregard

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

0.0

This is so fucking sick and twisted. Like please someone check this man’s computer. So, like a lot of people I was like « hold my fucking beer » when I saw that a lot said they couldn’t get pas page 40. Well I am a fucking dumb ass and I need to do more research before jumping on a book like this. But it’s not just page 40. It’s two whole chapter. 

So, in two chapter in a row we have: Rape, pedophilia, SA, Incest, someone masturbating with her mother’s shit, and the author (a man) describing a woman’s genitalia (and cum like he says) with all the words possible (even the worst ones). 
I saw some people say «but it helps to understand the characters». Spoiler: not it does not. It’s just for shock purposes. 
So yes, this is really bad. And there’s no warning for it. It just happens. 

There are some good things in this book, but they can’t make it up for all those things. Especially that the pedophilia part comes back later in the book. 

Also one of the character is an ex nazi, he’s one of the bad guy, but it looks like he was given forgiveness for his war crimes (okay I have to admit I kind of stopped reading the book with attention at this point). 

So yeah, an horrible book and plus it’s not well written. 

TW: Rape, Pedophilia, SA, Incest, Child abuse, Misogyny, Child death, Parent death, Gore, Murder, R-slur, Homophobia, Emotional and Physical abuse, Torture

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