Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout

388 reviews

char_borg's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Religious bigotry, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

udari's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Physical abuse, Violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Torture

octopus18's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body shaming, Child death, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Domestic abuse

halimannder's review against another edition

tense slow-paced

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

4.0

A bit slow, the first in a series where it feels like the main climax happens right as the book ends

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse

justagremlin's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

1.5

Poppy is very bland in my opinion. Her only real trait is “being trapped as the Maiden” and that’s it. That’s her only trait. Hawke is just as bad. The only character trait he has for like 75% of the book is that he’s…hot. That’s it. 

And they have no chemistry. The whole chemistry between them is how “FoRbIdDeN” their love is.

Hawke try not to bring up their forbidden kiss challenge: impossible. But seriously all of their banter is just that over and over and over again.

 

The last 25% of the book is just plot twist after plot twist and a LOT of them felt very forced. They weren’t exactly well set up and came out of left field.

The only one that was slightly good in my opinion, was that the ascended were the real vampyres. That one had some plausible setup. But Hawke being “The Dark One”??? Poppy being half atlantain?? Where the hell did those come from?

 

So overall, a miss for me 

1.5/5 

Recommend For: Easy read for forbidden romance lovers. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence, and Death of parent

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Child death and Domestic abuse

child death:

couple recounts the death of their two children but not in graphic detail, depictions of children being raised to be blood supply for vampires.

Death/violence

Typical fantasy violence and fighting

Death of parent

a parental figure dies before MCs eyes.

Domestic abuse

briefly implied to have happened to a side character

physical Abuse

MC is often whipped by a cane as "punishment"

sexual assault

someone tries to assault MC, however, he is interrupted

Sexual content: Chapter 30 Chapter 33 and Chapter 39 are just smut scenes with no plot relevance besides maybe some emotional heart to heart. Chapter 38 has a little bit of plot relevance but also its not the spiciest of scenes

hailey_sar's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Death, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

_jamie's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense 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? It's complicated

3.75

Easy read, predicable elements. Interesting premise and storyline, intriguing religious elements. Not sure if it's enough to make me want to read the second book, especially with the last sentence of the novel

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Violence, and Blood

Minor: Child abuse, Gore, and Classism

vixairy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, and Torture

debbri22's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Violence, and Blood

Minor: Domestic abuse

noragoudie's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

3.75

At first I was doubtful, but I actually enjoyed this book! It was a great world build with compelling characters and a romance that did suck me in. I will say the weakness of this book is that the tropes and storylines have all been done before in various other narratives, but that’s also what I enjoy about the story: It feels like a more mature version of some of the dystopian novels I loved in the past!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Physical abuse

Minor: Sexual harassment