Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

Carnage by Shantel Tessier

2 reviews

chauntel's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Alcohol, Death of parent, Medical content, Stalking, Grief, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Murder, Sexual violence, Blood, Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Kidnapping, Addiction, Bullying, Car accident, Drug use, Gore, Pregnancy, Abortion, Body horror, Medical trauma, Abandonment, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexual assault, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual harassment, and Gun violence

Moderate: Vomit, Suicide attempt, Torture, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Violence, and Suicidal thoughts

whichdirection's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

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

1.0

This book absolutely needed another editing run, there are multiple grammatical errors/errors in sentence structure that just made me do a double take. Additionally there are several spots where the characters say/think something, then repeat themselves a few paragraphs later.

This book is marketed & listed as stand-alone but I would argue you absolutely need to have read Sin & Ty’s books for a good chunk of this one to make sense. Otherwise the immediate introduction of all these characters & the things they know about Luke and Whitney would make No Sense.

There were a lot of plot holes, and inconsistent characterization.

(Saint is meant to be protective & even cuts off a guard’s hand for touching Ash, but does nothing at all to find/punish the man who SA’d her until he shows back up?)

And at the end of the book, nothing had really changed for any of them. No one developed as a person and their situations never changed.
Additionally Ash & Saint’s relationship (like their Romance and their Love) is developed mainly in flashbacks which I found incredibly unfulfilling. They have plenty of sex but he gives her Zero aftercare and they never really talk/bond.

Ash seemed to have a deeper emotional connection with Haidyn in my opinion.

Overall I was just really confused and disappointed for the majority of this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Sexism

Moderate: Vomit, Death of parent, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Domestic abuse, Car accident, Blood, Death, Alcohol, Violence, Torture, Murder, Medical content, Infidelity, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Miscarriage, and Drug abuse

Minor: Toxic friendship and Trafficking