Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

Iron & Fire by Ariana Nash

5 reviews

aepolosauthor's review

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

mallorypen's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

1.75

Okay, this book was a little better than the first one, insofar that there was a little more structure to the plot. There were some scenes that I found enjoyable and rooted for the characters to persevere, and some of the plot twists took me by surprise. I even found myself thinking that, with a different focus or maybe another author, the premise could have been super cool. 

THAT SAID, this was still mostly trash. Super violent for violence’s sake; the use of sexual assault for shock value was still super rampant; and the character motivations were alllll over the place. The back and forth of “will they, won’t they, they did, they won’t again, oh but they did again, but hey look, more torture” got boring quick, even while the descriptions of viscera and bodily harm got more and more graphic.

Cornell Collins is putting his entire soul into reading these books, and with someone even 10% less talented I’d have no doubt I would have DNF’d immediately. As it stands, I am not going to finish this awful series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

bonriki's review

adventurous dark emotional sad 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

4.0

This was an improvement on the first book, a lot more actual plot progression and character development happened. It did have one of my least favorite tropes make an appearance in the latter half

push other character away and seemingly betray them FoR tHeIr OwN gOoD

which annoyed me but fortunately the fallout didn’t drag on forever. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Pregnancy

lecteur7's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

yoda32's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual violence