yarisbooksandbevs's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Spoiler
other than Sail. I loved himI don’t really like Midas and I don’t trust him. He gives me the ick and seems emotionally manipulative to someone who is naive and traumatized. I hope to see Auren get him in the future.
I’m intrigued enough to continue but this book was a little meh for me.
Graphic: Alcohol, Confinement, Misogyny, Infidelity, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Violence, Cursing, Death, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Sexual content
Moderate: Gaslighting, Rape, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Blood, Sexual violence, and Classism
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Trafficking, Infertility, and Vomit
m0nnney's review against another edition
- 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? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Rape, Sexual content, and Sexual violence
Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Confinement, Adult/minor relationship, and Domestic abuse
bethlamb's review against another edition
- Strong character development? No
1.0
Graphic: Rape and Adult/minor relationship
Minor: Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Confinement, and Alcoholism
dealfea's review against another edition
- 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? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Slavery, Murder, Blood, Animal death, Trafficking, Drug abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Emotional abuse, Addiction, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Physical abuse, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Sexism, Confinement, Classism, and Bullying
shadi_anna's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Rape and Sexual violence
Minor: Kidnapping, Emotional abuse, Confinement, Adult/minor relationship, and Gaslighting
ajthequeen's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.0
Spoiler
I should've stopped reading on page one when I learned that the harem was called saddles. But alas I continued, and I will never get the hours back that I spent reading this book.My takeaways:
FMC has TENTACLES. another spot I should've just shut the kindle down at.
A golden cage is still a cage. This is repeated constantly, just in case you forget.
All men are r-pists and/or don't care about women. The 1-2 who aren't were killed off, because men are bad or they're dead.
Bright side? Bright side.
The use of the word "cum" thrown in for shock effect when there's actually very little cursing in this book.
Did anything actually happen in this book? I blacked out around tentacles.
FMC was whiny, useless, and overall unlikable. The author did a great job telling us how things felt rather than showing us through emotion on the page. I felt like I was watching a TV show rather than reading a book. Which, if this is a device where we readers are watching FMC through the cage and in subsequent novels gets better as she breaks free, that's incredible. But I'm not going to waste money buying the rest to find out.
The author felt like she had a point about grooming, trafficking, poverty, and misogyny, but missed the mark entirely. Perhaps these opinions would be best spent on nonfiction writing or opinion pieces rather than... Whatever this was.
F*ckin tentacles, man. </Spoiler>
Graphic: Infertility, Kidnapping, Sexual assault, Murder, Pedophilia, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Torture, Trafficking, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Rape, and Sexual content
booshort's review against another edition
I then VERY VAGUELY skimmed the rest of the book. By that, I mean I searched up summaries, reviews, and recaps and then did not regret sticking this one out.
I think this book has the most serious trigger warnings I’ve read (/skimmed). TW FOR DESCRIPTIVE RAPE SCENE. Ya I’m good with avoiding that thanks. I found the writing very juvenile to an almost mocking degree. It sometimes came off more satirical of a dark fantasy romance, rather than and *actual* dark fantasy romance.
I’ve heard each book gets better; I might continue, I might not. But I know for sure I won’t continue any time soon.
Graphic: Slavery, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Death, Sexual content, Violence, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, War, Rape, Sexual harassment, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Body shaming, Child abuse, Blood, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Death of parent, and Trafficking
hanna's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Death, Sexual assault, Murder, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Grief, Violence, and Alcoholism
Moderate: Gore, Adult/minor relationship, and Confinement
Minor: War
annick's review against another edition
0.25
World building was meh. The book is far too longer for the amount of plot and character interactions. The first person narrative isn’t working for me either. And there is also the lazy use of perceived ugliness/beauty as a measure of villain.
Sail and Digby were part of the brief interlude that I enjoyed.
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Slavery, and Violence
Moderate: Classism, Confinement, Abandonment, Blood, Colonisation, and Death
nixter's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, Slavery, and Sexual violence