Reviews tagging 'Torture'

A Touch of Malice, by Scarlett St. Clair

32 reviews

cheyraisin's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War, Kidnapping, Rape, and Torture

peyrenepey's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Violence, Torture, and Death

Moderate: Suicide and War

Minor: Rape

eleek0609's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful tense medium-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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Death, Death of parent, Stalking, War, Infertility, Kidnapping, Sexual assault, Vomit, Emotional abuse, Injury/injury detail, Sexual violence, Violence, Misogyny, Sexual content, Grief, Blood, and Cursing

Moderate: Alcohol, Child death, and Alcoholism

kamross's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

Tbh, this book was hard to get through. The end had me on my toes, but up until then it was a chore. There was a ton of repetition (esp. in the smutty scenes), which made it feel really boring. I loved her book King of Battle and Blood, so I'm just not sure how this series got so far away from that.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Alcohol, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Injury/injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, and Stalking

Minor: Infertility, Mental illness, Addiction, and Alcoholism

paigeking's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, War, Violence, Torture, Sexual content, Death, and Murder

Minor: Child death, Vomit, Sexual assault, Infertility, and Rape

annttenne's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Rape, Torture, and Death

kloughlin's review against another edition

emotional 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Torture

Moderate: Kidnapping, Murder, Cursing, War, Death, Violence, and Alcoholism

Minor: Infertility, Sexism, and Rape

katyfortner's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful 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

4.75

Wow wow. I loved this book especially the last quarter of it. It made me so happy and hopeful and cry and heartbroken. It kept me at the edge of my seat wondering what would happen next. 

Spoiler

Hades and Persephone’s wedding was so endearing and I’m so happy they finally got married. Not sure how I feel about this potential pregnancy trope coming up. They were hinting at it so hard and bringing it up so many times that I would find it very hard to believe if it isn’t in the next book. Also, I wish there was more fight scenes with the Olympians! It ended so abruptly and then all the drama with Sybil and Theseus happened. And wow my heart hurt when Zofie went to save them from Theseus and was killed. Ughhhh I thought we were just getting into her storyline and friendship with Persephone for her to die too soon. Then Persephone killing Demeter wowwww. I figured something would happen to make her stop but I thought they may have a heart to heart instead of her killing her mom… wow she is going to be so messed up after this war.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, Murder, Violence, Torture, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, and Child death

Minor: Rape

kellbell785's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Self harm, Rape, and Torture

lamb_xo's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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? Yes

2.5

I am thoroughly disappointed with this series, especially this book.
SSC spends so much time with H x P having sex, that she takes away from the rest of the plot. If there was more attention to that, and not every time Hades f***s Persephone, then it actually might have been a good book. Because of this too, Hades character has no development. It was like SSC only had him written in to be Persephone’s f***buddy.
It pissed me off, and I hate that SSC is dragging this out with a fourth in the series. She should’ve just stopped after the first one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Rape, Sexual assault, Stalking, Torture, Violence, and War