Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout

51 reviews

sami_leigh's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

🗡 First person POV (Penellaphe) 
🗡 First is a series of 7, with a spin-off series (neither are complete)
🗡 Fantasy
🗡 Easy to follow World Building
🗡 Forbidden romance
🗡 Enemies to lovers
🗡 Forced proximity
🗡 Tension and BANTER 👌🏻
🗡 Nickname
🗡 Sex positive, consent culture
🗡 Strong female lead with a lot of personal growth (Poppy serves BDE from day 1 🙌🏻)
🗡 Well established secondary characters
🗡 For fans of A Court of Thorns and Roses 🥀 

⚠️ Childhood trauma, death of a parent, grief, violence, torture, injury detail, emotional abuse and captivity, toxic relationships.

🌶🌶🌶

“With my sword and with my life, I vow to keep you safe, Penellaphe,” he spoke, voice deep and smooth, reminding me of rich, decadent chocolate. “From this moment until the last moment, I am yours.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Violence

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Grief, Death of parent, and War

kaylamoran's review against another edition

I hated the writing style.  I hated the romance.  I don't understand the world building.  This just absolutely did not work for me.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Physical abuse

Minor: Body shaming, Death, Sexism, Toxic relationship, and Death of parent

marisa_n's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Infidelity, Toxic friendship, and War

taryn_g's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Body shaming, Child death, Slavery, and Death of parent

gimmiiie's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

1.0

It was okay probably 3.0 rating but I got to the last 100 pages and the book lost me that I almost didn't finish. 

***edit: The more I think about this book. The more I hate it.

What is consent my dear reader? The main LI doesn't know. I hate that character more and more. Acts like he knows what's best for the MC. I also don't like the MC.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder

caramisha's review against another edition

I hated every second of this except when I was laughing so hard I cried about how nonsensical it was.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Sexual harassment

bonriki's review against another edition

dark slow-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

2.0

This book features: lack of consent issues, the least subtle foreshadowing I’ve ever read, a 200 year old man with the maturity of a 9 year old, 3 different kinds of vampires with an extremely convoluted explanation of how they differ, and an astoundingly naive and oblivious Not Like Other Girls MC. The writing is tortured and the plot is hot garbage, objectively it is very, very bad. I’ll be honest though, part of me enjoyed this, it’s too bad to take seriously so it became mindlessly fun trash like Twilight or Fifty Shades of Grey. 0 stars for quality, 3 stars for enjoyment. Won’t be continuing the series

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Toxic relationship, and Sexual harassment

catmattox's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, and Murder

melissyjo's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

This book was abysmally slow. Poppy is annoying and stupid. The love interest (I have forgotten hs name) was unlikeable. Their power dynamic was extremely toxic. It had these weird world building paragraphs that were huge info dumps in between one word dialogue. Grammatical errors everywhere and horribly repetitive dialogue. Saw the twist from a mile a way. Book picks up last 50 pages but it isn't worth it. 

The two people of color in the book are both in servant type roles. One is named TAWNY. Big yikes.

I honestly don't know why this book is so hyped. It was one of the worst books I've ever read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Confinement, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexual content, and Violence

anapthine's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, and War

Minor: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Deadnaming, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Stalking, and Death of parent