Reviews with content warning for Sexual assault - O Homem de Giz

Oke, ik heb doorgezet. Maar dit boek was niet echt voor mij. Ik werd niet in het verhaal gezogen. Ik vond het ook niet spannend. Het was vooral dat ik dnfen soms toch lastig vind en mijn nieuwsgierigheid me soms in de weg zit. Een aantal dingen zag ik al aankomen door de hints die gedropt werden. Sommige dingen verbaasden me niks. Op zich het thema dat iedereen zo zijn geheimen heeft en iets slechts kan doen kan wel heel interessant beschreven worden. Maar helaas gebeurde dat voor mij niet echt in dit boek. Wie weet pakt hij jou wel!

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redtemptation's review against another edition

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dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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annabelle42688's review against another edition

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dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

Interesting, but not what I had hoped for.

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tlskayte's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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ellethewraith's review against another edition

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dark mysterious slow-paced

2.5

I really wanted to like this book. The synopsis sounded so interesting, but the execution just fell flat for me. And the whole mystery part often took a backseat to random chapters of mostly unnecessary backstory. It was definitely more murder mystery with tones of psychological thriller, but not so much horror. The end was a poorly done bait and switch, so that was annoying. There were some parts of this story I thought were pretty clever, but most was just…meh.

And this is really just personal opinion on my part, but some of the messages this book seemed to try and send just left a bad taste in my mouth. I’d like to say it’s because of the unreliable narrator aspect, but the overall quality of the writing and storytelling give me doubts. The MC is straight up

sexually assaulted by his friend’s older brother

and then goes on to say it wasn’t such a terrible thing. And then he sympathizes with a pedo because he knows him and has a connection to him, but condemns another adult man for leering at teen girls. He’s able to justify that groomer pedo’s actions, but thinks his friend is cold and heartless because she has no sympathy for her abusive father. What in the pedo-sympathizer BS is this? If these thoughts were ever really challenged on page when he was an adult, it would’ve saved it for me, but that didn’t happen.

Definitely wouldn’t recommend, or read twice.

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heyshay07's review against another edition

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dark mysterious sad tense 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? Yes

4.0

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ecahill23's review against another edition

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challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

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

2.0

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