Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

Scorched Grace by Margot Douaihy

14 reviews

jhulme's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, and Grief

Minor: Cursing, Incest, and Police brutality

cascadienne's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Infidelity, Sexual content, Police brutality, Car accident, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Child abuse, Cursing, Drug use, Homophobia, Incest, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

ahallen's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Infidelity, Sexual content, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

Moderate: Addiction, Animal death, and Homophobia

Minor: Incest and Pedophilia

aseel_reads's review

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.5

Overall, I loved the atmosphere and vibe of this story. The plot was entertaining and the characters had rich back stories. The pacing was a little off and we got odd moments of random exposition of how holiday needed to solve the case, which seemed a bit too intense for the moment. I did guess the perpetrator right, just not the exact reason. But just generally, a fun read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

scaredykatbooks's review

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Lesbophobia, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, Cancer, Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Incest, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cursing, Incest, Vomit, Religious bigotry, and Car accident

lilgriff's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Drug use, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Violence, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Medical content

tarasoraptor's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

1.5

Tl;dr version: This reads as trauma porn disguised as a mystery. The plot twist was predictable, the concl sion was hurried, poorly structured, and unsatisfying. If I wasn't finishing the book at midnight, in bed next to my partner, I would have thrown it across the room in frustration.

Will come back to review in more detail if I can.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, Cancer, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Incest, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Police brutality, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Classism

lyshbish's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

I think I liked this book more in concept than in execution. Sister Holiday was an interesting character, but I was more interested in her history than her present... including the mystery. I found it fairly easy to solve, which was an ego boost, but ultimately... it didn't leave a huge impression. I would potentially read a sequel, though!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Homophobia, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual content, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

Moderate: Cancer, Drug use, Religious bigotry, and Murder

evadaisy's review

dark medium-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

So unnecessarily traumatising. Maybe it's a good book if you don't mind that sort of thing, but please take care of yourself and check the content warnings. This book is so much darker than I expected and I wouldn't have read it if I'd known.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Incest, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, Cancer, Death, Drug use, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Self harm, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Stalking, Outing, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

rafritz1's review

adventurous funny mysterious 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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing

Moderate: Addiction, Incest, Rape, Suicide, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Alcoholism, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Rape, Self harm, Suicide, Death of parent, Murder, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

This book made me laugh out loud several times. I really wish I would have known

the fire investigator was high on pain meds through the entire book

because that would have made her dialogue style make a lot more sense. Besides that, I loved this twist on a murder mystery and I will definitely be checking out more Sister Holiday books if the author writes more.