Reviews tagging 'Pedophilia'

Gild by Raven Kennedy

13 reviews

peyberry's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark sad tense medium-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

3.0

Tbh this book made me feel sick to my stomach multiple times. Kennedy’s warning at the beginning of the book that this is adult content really was an understatement. This book is graphic, disturbing, and sad. If I didn’t know from other people that the rest of the series was good, I probably wouldn’t keep reading. There’s very few moments in the book that I actually enjoyed. The single redeeming quality of this book is that it wasn’t boring.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Violence, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

lauravillegasj's review against another edition

dark sad fast-paced

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

4.0

Down with King Midas.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Trafficking, and War

mrsm_lovesbooks's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

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

2.5

Plot development too slow. Main character has some interesting developments at the end. The main "love interest" is a douche and that's putting it lightly. Lots of vulgarity. Book made me uncomfortable. Overall, not my cup of tea. Only read because it was part of a reading challenge.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Blood, and War

Moderate: Child abuse, Rape, Kidnapping, and Alcohol

Minor: Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, and Gaslighting

swolerabbit's review against another edition

too much sexual assault for my liking, let alone for a romance novel. 
and i'm supposed to read the whole series??? nope.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and War

abinthebooks's review against another edition

1.0

DNF at 45%

All that has happened in this book so far is the FMC, Auden, getting SA’ed at every turn, and her supposed love interest, Midas, gaslighting her that it’s all for her own good. Literally made me fucking sick to my stomach. There absolutely needs to be trigger warnings for this book for graphic sexual assault, graphic rape, emotional abuse and extreme gaslighting. Absolutely nothing else has happened in this book so far, I’m snoring and highly triggered. Also Midas is an absolute asshole and I cannot stand him and the way he’s allowing other men to sexually assault Auden literally right in front of him???Idk if Auden is going to get with his goofy ass or not but I’m not sticking around to find out.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Alcoholism and Alcohol

Minor: Pedophilia

ajthequeen's review against another edition

dark 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

1.0

I should've stopped reading on page one when I learned that the harem was called saddles. But alas I continued, and I will never get the hours back that I spent reading this book.

My takeaways: 
FMC has TENTACLES. another spot I should've just shut the kindle down at.
A golden cage is still a cage. This is repeated constantly, just in case you forget.
All men are r-pists and/or don't care about women. The 1-2 who aren't were killed off, because men are bad or they're dead.
Bright side? Bright side.
The use of the word "cum" thrown in for shock effect when there's actually very little cursing in this book.
Did anything actually happen in this book? I blacked out around tentacles. 
FMC was whiny, useless, and overall unlikable. The author did a great job telling us how things felt rather than showing us through emotion on the page. I felt like I was watching a TV show rather than reading a book. Which, if this is a device where we readers are watching FMC through the cage and in subsequent novels gets better as she breaks free, that's incredible. But I'm not going to waste money buying the rest to find out. 
The author felt like she had a point about grooming, trafficking, poverty, and misogyny, but missed the mark entirely. Perhaps these opinions would be best spent on nonfiction writing or opinion pieces rather than... Whatever this was.

F*ckin tentacles, man. </Spoiler>

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Murder, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

missgarceau's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

Please check TW’s BEFORE reading!!

Spice: 🔥🔥🔥

I couldn’t put this down from start to finish. 

Although it felt somewhat predictable, I found myself not anticipating major plot twists. 

This is not a “happy” retelling, and deals with dark & difficult topics. Please be advised. 

However, I found the world, characters, and plot absolutely riveting. 

This ends on a cliffhanger, is an unfinished series, but the final book is scheduled to be released this year. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, War, and Classism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Deportation

zia_c's review against another edition

dark sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

This bored and annoyed me to death.

= Then why the hell did I finish reading it?

Because I'm going through a major reading slump and nothing could hold my interest and I read it out of spite because a reviewer said it gets super better in the next book but honest to the reading gods, I'm not sure if I'll read the second book.

Seriously, the story is so bland and out of order. Nothing makes sense other than the constant misogyny. Not to mention that there's no CW about Harem. I was upset from the start. I let it slide because I didn't knew he was the ML or I'd have dropped it right there and then. He's such an ass. I don't get what other readers sees in him even if it's fiction. Girll! Chuck him outta the palace and your life like the Captain.

And the heroine... EWWW~~
There's one thing to be a doormat and I can somewhat tolerate them but to be a fucking shredded doormat??? I wanted to hurl the same book at her so many times. She's so damn annoying. I felt like I was reading about a major pick me girl who thinks with her pussy half of the time and other half with her ass. Jesus Christ!!! What's wrong with female characters these days??? I refuse to acknowledge such shitty things as characters. The writers have made the prostitutes and their profession a joke. Do they even do their homework before writing about such characters??? I'm so done with it. Just stop it. It just gets disgusting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Pedophilia, and Toxic relationship

jordanez's review against another edition

challenging medium-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

2.5

No plot in sight with this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Sexual assault

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Violence, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Child abuse, Death, Pedophilia, and War

cominguproses's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

2.5

Literally just read this so I could read the rest of the series, which is supposedly better

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Trafficking, and Kidnapping