Reviews tagging 'Torture'

The Bully by Sophie Lark

12 reviews

hanreadssbooks's review against another edition

dark 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

ate up every second of this book. i was iffy about it at the beginning, but fell in love sooo fast. i love that cat finds herself and that we see how devoted dean can be when he loves someone. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Sexual content, Torture, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gun violence, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment

Minor: Sexual assault, Slavery, and Murder

jazzmarie22's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Torture

Minor: Death of parent

papabuttah's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Slavery, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

ferp's review

dark tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture

Moderate: Death

sam019's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

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

5.0

I love this series - one of my new favourites for sure! When I began reading Sophie Lark's Underworld series, I DNF'D at the second book. Then I read her Brutal Birthright series and enjoyed it. Now, reading the Kingmakers series I'm absolutely in love. I love this series so much it's got everything Iove: academia, castles, new countries, intricate and dark romances, found family, etc. I will definitely be re-reading this series as I'm sure I'll pick up more details the next time around. I'm thinking of even going back and trying to read the Underworld series again because I love how all of these characters are interconnected! I'm going to be in such a reading slump after thks series is over... 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Torture, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

marshallreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

hazelgirl21's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Torture

Minor: Murder

andeng's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

shector1's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

Very steamy🌶🌶🌶🌶 very emotional 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Grief, Murder, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death and Death of parent

Minor: Misogyny

shaipanda's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful tense fast-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? Yes

5.0

BROOO OMG IM SO GLAD I KEPT READING LIKE WTF KENDRA_READS was 1000% righttttt like wtf this is so gooddd
Like so fucking dark like all of them are by holy shitttt
Also I’m way too proud that I literally guessed who the spy was from the 1st or maybe it was early in the 2nd book I forget - I thought it was someone else for a minute there cause that other person was also hiding something that you learn later but my original guess which I came back to pretty quickly was right 
ALSOOO - Holy shit this was so hotttt like damnn - exponentially better spice and shit even tho I still had some of the same issues with it like no mention of birth control or anything plus with them I wish there was more mention of explicit boundaries and safe words and stuff on page 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Abandonment