Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout

362 reviews

jadeilona_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging funny 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Sexual content, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Murder, Violence, War, Death, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Blood, Child abuse, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Misogyny, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death of parent, Abandonment, and Body shaming

thebizznitch's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad slow-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? Yes

2.5

Very slow start. Last few chapters really got interesting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Sexual assault, Body shaming, and Murder

luluht's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cannibalism, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual content, and Violence

nat20charisma's review against another edition

3.25

It was just.. ok. Not so bad that I had to DNF it, but not great either. 

I really don’t enjoy the trope of “sexually experienced man shows a virgin the ropes”. I also felt like there were times that Poppy didn’t want it and clearly said so, but he pushed forward anyway because he “knew she would like it” and would “thank him later”. 

It was also a HUGE red flag that he

Spoiler

took her virginity before he revealed who he was. Pretty sure that’s rape, and that is traumatic. But I know she will still fall in love with him because he is in the other books as a hero.

All that aside, I found the major plot twist a little too predictable (I knew a quarter of the way thru), and I found some of the plot needed to be trimmed because it didn’t make sense or it didn’t add to the story. 

Not my cup of tea, but the writing could have been worse. At least it was still readable, even if it wasn’t gripping. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, Gore, and Sexual content

Moderate: Torture

sparkleslily's review against another edition

dark emotional slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: War

Minor: Death and Death of parent

cattheplat'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? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

To start, this book is steamy. The spice starts in the beginning and continues to simmer through the whole book. However the story does not rely on that and is a well written story that had me feeling all kinds of ways. The big twist is predictable if you are paying attention to the clues, but not in a boring way, you still get to revel in the reveal. The characters are likeable, but not without flaws. The portrayal of grief and being pushed to a breaking point by it is one of the best portrayals I've seen from a "chosen maiden" trope. Poppy is special and strong, but also very human. A fantastic dark romance and I'll be reading the next one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Sexual content

destiny124's review against another edition

All the twists were predictable and as the series goes on it feels like a graphic twilight fangic

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Violence

Moderate: Physical abuse

jamby4546's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Confinement

insanebookperson's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Violence, Child abuse, Death, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Classism, Confinement, Body shaming, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Death of parent, Gore, and Sexual content

strange_and_unusual's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-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? No

2.75

I found it to be really predicable? I enjoyed it enough to finish it but the plot twist was kind of obvious, Poppy kind of annoyed me at times, same with Hawke. It has its good moments though. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Physical abuse, Gore, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, and Death

Minor: Death of parent