Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Honeysuckles by January Rayne

25 reviews

dovahkiin_shea's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

3.5

Somnophilia, non/dub-con, monster,  morally pitch black, paranormal romance

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Drug use, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body shaming, Gore, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Physical abuse and Fire/Fire injury

Creed x Demi: After he is captured, tortured and experimented on, he becomes several "beasts" with various traits. He eventually escapes and knows he has a mate somewhere, he follows the feeling until he finds her in her diner. He knows he looks "monstrous" so he doesn't show her his full body.

He proceeds to kill all the men who harass her and those he deems as threats

She keeps thinking about him, and covering for him with others - and the police- and the "couple" has a few short meetings in a booth at her diner.

He decides to drug her, and sleep with her (she's a virgin) and throw out her birth control

After some time she is contacted

by the equivalent of supernatural police

and they tell her everything that he's done.

They take him away to try and control his urges and instincts, but can't really (whoops) and he goes back to be with his mate and their egg. HEA? This entire book was 'fixed' with a magic spell at the end that made everything okay for them.

The premise was interesting, but for me the writing fell a bit flat towards the end because of how easily everything was resolved despite all the damage that was done.

asmaltz3's review against another edition

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Rape, Sexual assault, Blood, Stalking, Murder, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Vomit

emmer_reads's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, Stalking, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

doahdancer's review against another edition

dark sad tense

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

2.0

Holy monster bait, batman.

I read this on a dare, with the expectation that it was going to be an extreme beauty and the beast where beast has porn tentacles, shifts, sparkles (probably) and hoards gold. Instead, this is MUCH closer to Haunting Adeline with teeth and and a taste for blood.

Really wouldn't know who to recommend this to, but it was certainly an experience.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

colorcrystals's review against another edition

dark 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gore, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Stalking, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Kidnapping, and Sexual harassment

dmaried0424's review against another edition

challenging dark fast-paced

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

2.5

I like the beginning it started off strong. I really disliked the middle. I don’t have any triggers but I don’t care for the first time a couple is together it isn’t consensual or even remembered by the FMC bc she’s asleep and the fact that there is barely a bond between the two. To the point where they barely know each other and she doesn’t even figure it out until almost the end of the book and was accepting of it. Then for it to happen again and again and for it to take up the primary bulk of the book was disappointing and kinda aggravating. I did enjoy the ending but was kind of confused how throughout the whole entire book up until the last 3/4 chapters everyone seems human except for MMC then suddenly there are other paranormals. I feel disappointed because I loved the beginning and I feel like this book had such great potential to just really let me down😕

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, and Murder

Minor: Mental illness

fr4n_m's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Blood, Medical trauma, Stalking, and Murder

anisakajee90's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Gore

skullqueen's review against another edition

dark hopeful mysterious medium-paced

4.25

The book started to stalk out and I was going to stop reading but decided to read a bit more and I am so glad I did. The ending is perfect. I csnt wait for book two and three.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, and Murder

Minor: Pregnancy

hariboreads's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

Starts off dark and ends 🥹 lots of non con. Yet I do love an mmc who is morally black. You don’t need to read other books before this. Loved Creeds story with the entirety of my dark soul 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical trauma, Stalking, Murder, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Misogyny

Minor: Kidnapping