Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

A Touch of Malice by Scarlett St. Clair

29 reviews

mlh95's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny sad 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, and Death of parent

majormnkey's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

3.5

Negatives:
- ‘Are you well?’ said about 500 times.
- Again, sex seems to be the cure-all of all Hades’ and Persephone's problems.
- Some chapters had about five sex scenes in 15 pages. Quite the overkill. They started to feel like filler chapters.
- I had to remind myself very often that she’s a goddess, because she’s written so much like a mousy, insecure young student.
Positives: 
- Hecate, Apollo, Hermes! I LIVE for their storylines.
- Easy read, good flow most of the time.

Will probably read the last book, as I’ve come so far by now. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Violence

Moderate: Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Kidnapping, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Child death, Cursing, Infertility, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

maxinesf's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Alcohol

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, and Infertility

scarlett_f's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense 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

2.0

Well, I read all three books, hoping the writing would improve. The story is constantly interrupted by whatever sex scene can be whipped up next. It seemed like the author used the Karma Sutra page by page to come up with something. I'm not opposed to sex and romance. It's just all of it was so repetitive, overdone, laughable. Roll-your-eyes boring after a short while. It forces you to start skimming. Literally, nothing got done within the storyline due to the constant sex scene interruptions and no exaggeration that it happened every other page. Very poor and disappointing, choppy writing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Infertility, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Disappointing writing.

bookishhl8275's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad 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

4.5

The ending was extremely intense, I loved Persephone’s personal growth and even Hades and Persephone’s growth in their relationship and learning to trust eachother through many hardships.
I loved that we got to see the Olympian’s more as a whole in this book as wel.
Can’t wait for book 4! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Confinement, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

wrensreadingroom's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Infertility, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

kimmy0__0's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious sad fast-paced

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

5.0

Probably my favorite of the series so far. Lots of spicy scenes, but mostly just loved how the story progressed and the growth we saw in Persephone. So excited for Game of Gods!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Violence, Murder, Alcohol, War, and Classism

Moderate: Bullying, Death, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Mass/school shootings, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Rape, Grief, and Death of parent

frantically's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Brought me back what I missed in the second book! The combination between plot & smut/romance was so much more graceful (where before the plot honestly just felt a bit unnecessary) and I feel like we've finally gotten to action-filled parts, especially with that ending! Hades and Persephone were so sweet in this book and I love that their wasn't a lot of drama in their own relationship, just drama from outside. I don't want to spoil anything but gosh, that one plot point just made go 🥰🥰🥰. This is such a fun & intriguing universe and I'd love books about more of the other gods (who am I kidding, I just have a massive crush on Hecate).

I just remembered that I hoped we'd see more of Hades' criminal underworld and while that didn't happen in a big extent we got dark!/spicy!Hades instead and honestly I'm not mad about that. I do wish Hades was more involved in the plot sometimes tho! Hades & Persephone often give off Ken & Barbie vibes, with him just being there to worship her (but also not really complaining here) (need myself a man like that)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Sexual content, Violence, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Confinement, Rape, Sexual assault, Car accident, Sexual harassment, and War

Minor: Suicide and Abortion

carlaah1984's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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

3.0

like the first two, I rolled my eyes a lot but also couldn't stop listening. The ending of this book was super strong and make me excited for the release of the fourth book.  I'm glad the author learned the word trauma but feels a bit overused in part of the book without exploring it in a meaningful way. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Murder

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: War

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

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, and Alcohol