Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

The Ritual by Shantel Tessier

274 reviews

ivykennerauthor's review

dark medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

ielliie's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Stalking, Death of parent, and Murder

meowrie's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

5.0

The first time I read this, I really disliked it. 

But everyone raves about it, and I thought I might like to give the rest of the series a chance. I hadn't read this in 2 years so it needed a reread. I did the audio this time and it made a big difference I think. I really liked it much much more. 

Three things bothered me both times I read it. 1. "her tits bounced when she breathed". No they didn't. 2. "Her bubble butt". That's not a compliment. Quit saying that. 3. The constant description of whatever song is playing. It's distracting and doesn't make a difference to anything. 

Otherwise, it's a pretty good book. Lots of sex, lots of murder and gore, lots of stealth and secrets. Is it realistic? Nope. But it's still a good book. 

The audio is really good. Aiden Snow is sexy AF as Ryat with his growly voice and Meg Sylvan does a great job as Blakely. I love a great duet narration as well. I'm skipping the audio on the next one because the sample, yikes. The male voice is nasally and not what I'm looking for. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

moniquemariek's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

Dark, check trigger warnings, but really good smut. Also a lot of twist and turn plot moments, which I love

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Stalking, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Pregnancy and Alcohol

consent non consent fantasies, heavy bdsm, praise, degradation kink and others

enzopudge's review

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Abortion

melissaslibraryy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This book was dark and wild and I am soooo reading the next book in this series🤭

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Infidelity and Pregnancy

ibtireads's review

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

joanna_reinecke's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Sexual content, Violence, Vomit, Kidnapping, Stalking, and Pregnancy

tayler_morg's review

dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Was it over the top and a wild ride? Yes. Was it still sexy? Also yes.

this is a matt hater household

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, and Blood

hilary89's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

2.75

I’m not sure I really get the hype on this one. There was literally no character development and I found Ryat and Blakey both flat and one dimensional. Most of the plot revolves around fitting sex scenes in.

Also docking a full star for the near constant references to specific songs. It’s just rude of an author to assume their readers have the same taste in music and will know all their references.

It seems the next book is the most popular and the smut was admittedly fantastic, so I might give the series one more shot, but so far I’m not impressed. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Stalking, and Murder

Moderate: Gun violence, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, and Sexual harassment