Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Royal Blood by Aimée Carter

45 reviews

puddleshoes's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis

anon_ymous's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Sexual assault, and Classism

cursed_sapphire's review against another edition

emotional funny informative inspiring mysterious tense fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Child abuse, Murder, and Abandonment

Minor: Ableism, Body shaming, Drug use, Suicide, and Alcohol

theweatherwriter's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Mental illness, and Sexual assault

katewheels13's review against another edition

mysterious fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Murder, and Sexual harassment

mspecht's review against another edition

emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Sexual assault

avidreaderandgeekgirl's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

The media and the family of the royal bastard gang up to make her life hell, but she gets through it. Once a potential love interest is killed, who is the killer, and who's trying to frame her?
This book was a good mix of dark/emotional and funny. I wish there were more of the fun parts and less of the dark and emotional parts. The book's first half felt more like a contemporary romance, but the second half was more of a thriller. I would have preferred less romance. 
Overall a pretty good book that covered some hard topics. I really appreciated the compassion and understanding of the author for the mother who struggled with schizophrenia. I also liked that she made sure to have a part in there that corrected the assumptions of some of the general public that people with schizophrenia are violent, when in fact they're more likely to be the victim than the perpetrator of violence. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Abandonment

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Suicide, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Cursing, Xenophobia, and Pregnancy

laurel_delaney's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

4.0

This book was a random grab off the “new” section at the library after I read the bio I knew I’d love it! However! I wish on the book itself there was some sort of content warning. This book very heavily talks about rape and sexual assault and it really threw me off, I wish I would have checked the warnings on story graph. But if I had maybe I wouldn’t have picked it up, and aside from the sensitive topics I enjoyed the book! I made so many predictions along the way and got some right! But also some really wrong because all the twists keep you on your toes! This is a rather new release and I didn’t see much hype about it anywhere (but maybe I’m blind) which is a shame because I really enjoyed reading it!

I’m not gonna say much here… other then kit and Evan are my OTP. I say that a lot but truly I love those two I was rooting for them for soooooooooo long and I’m so happy they end up together. Now I know there are rumored sequels especially because of how it ended, and if kit and Evan break up I’m not finishing the books (I’m kidding I’m too invested I’ll just cry)

10/10 would recommend 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Mental illness

alli_the_bookaholic13's review against another edition

challenging emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Sexual assault

Minor: Suicide

starzyk's review against another edition

emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

Moderate: Sexual assault and Schizophrenia/Psychosis