thebacklistbook's Reviews (304)

challenging mysterious reflective 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
adventurous emotional funny mysterious medium-paced
adventurous challenging emotional mysterious tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous emotional funny mysterious medium-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
adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This is a horror story about psychotic children and what they can do with access to high end tech.
adventurous dark funny mysterious 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
mysterious 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: Yes
dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

reread required 
challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This book is not good. What it is, is important. Please don't read this book unless your mental health is on track and you have supports in place for if it tanks post reading. Massive trigger warnings for: rape, sodomy, transphobia, rape culture, toxic masculinity, toxic feminism, and bestiality.

Ladies you will not like this book. Feminists you will not like this book. You are not supposed to. It holds an uncomfortable mirror up to the world and how we treat rape survivors. Specifically how many women view it as proper and acceptable to ask of male survivors the very questions that we view indecent to be asked of female survivors. 

Things like "but was it rape if he got hard?". The answer is yes. Emphatically yes. the human body is complex and in both men and women wired to respond to certain stimuli in a specific manner despite us not wanting that thing to happen. It is never your fault. I have rated this book three stars to acknowledge its importance, but only three stars because it really wasn't my cup of tea to read this kind of fiction.