Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

The Ritual by Shantel Tessier

43 reviews

iida_a's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape and Pregnancy

samantha_xoxo's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Stalking, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

dextersgirl54's review

dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

It was soooo good I would totally read it again, I can’t wait to read the next book in the series and I hate reading the next instalments of books

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

lavieenrosee's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

2.75

3 🌶️

I honestly do not know how to feel about this one.

I just started exploring dark-themed books, so I do not have much materials to compare it to.
But I find myself questioning my taste in reading. 

It started quite strong, but it lost me with the plot jumping from high to mid to low and all over the place. 
The characters were loveable for a second, then get boring as it goes. 

Almost dnf it at some point because the timing of spicy scenes came a little off than I expect them to be.  

A little disappointed, but it is what it is. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

aubrieanne's review

dark 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

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, and Alcohol

Moderate: Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Medical trauma, Stalking, and Murder

Minor: Child death, Torture, and Pregnancy

kittykels's review

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.0

I went into this book expecting to love it, even knowing that I might not enjoy some of the violence or other heavy content. But the dark content isn't what had me disliking this book. 

The plot in general was fine, but the writing was choppy, lifeless, one-dimensional, etc. There was no depth to story or the characters. It's possible this was an intensional style choice given the dark and gritty content; after all, you wouldn't expect flowery prose in a story like this. But if this was indeed a style choice, it was overdone and didn't work. 

I'm honestly surprised I finished this book. I wanted something spicy and I wanted something dark, but I also wanted something gripping and this wasn't it. I couldn't wait for it to end, honestly. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Rape, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Medical content, Murder, and Alcohol

Minor: Kidnapping and Pregnancy

allymurphy's review against another edition

4.0

is this even close to a somewhat decent book? no. did I have a great time and fall in love with Ryat Archer? hell yeah I did
it lost a star due to

everything that happened with her mom at the end and that Matt didn’t have a painful enough death, it felt a little like throwing everything at the wall and seeing what stuck with not a ton of success. the rest of the book was fantastic

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Physical abuse, Rape, Vomit, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

Minor: Stalking

wandering_seal's review against another edition

dark slow-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? No

4.0

Look it was fine. There are some really fucking questionable decisions going on storywise - the

kiddos names at the end

for one, and the weird need to write out the name and artist of every song they hear playing.

This is one of those books where I'm somehow meant to believe the MMC has only had sex as a teenager and has been abstinent for the past three years before getting a pet sex slave and is somehow amazing at everything he wants to do with a solid working knowledge of all the kinks and how to navigate our FMCs body. Oh and he's a super awesome killer. With a future in law. Yep. Yeah. The suspension of disbelief was hard in this one.

I think you know what your getting into with these books. The lack of kinkshaming was really nice, and the emphasis on consent was also good considering this is a story with lots of dubcon aspects. I listened to it on audiobook at twice speed so the length of the plot didn't really bother me, but it is a loooong story and the later part in particular could have been tightened up.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, and Stalking

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Emotional abuse

clairelisebella's review

dark fast-paced

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

3.5

Fun book but could’ve used a good editor to tighten it up. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Confinement, Abortion, and Pregnancy

Minor: Infidelity and Alcohol

klsreads's review

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-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

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Pregnancy