Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Deviant King by Rina Kent

8 reviews

fairyinpages's review

dark emotional mysterious 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

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Death of parent and Alcohol

Minor: Body shaming and Fire/Fire injury

readwthsam's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Mental illness, Violence, Death of parent, Alcohol, Medical trauma, and Bullying

briochebun's review

dark emotional medium-paced

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

3.5

3.5 out of 5 ☆’s.

”Those who don't play think that the king is the most important piece because the game is over when he dies. They don't know that the king is useless without his queen.”

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Aiden’s character piqued my interest while reading ”Cruel King” — so I was ecstatic when I found out that the next book in the series was his! 

While I did enjoy ”Deviant King” overall (Note: I was aware of it being a dark bully romance novel — so none of its content took me by surprise) I will say that I wasn’t a big fan of the ending twist…

I did see it coming (so it wasn’t something out of left field) but it was too similar to Levi + Astrid’s situation with their parents (in my opinion) which bothered me. 

(Are all of the characters going to be connected to their love interests in similar ways — or are the Kings just cursed?)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Misogyny, Grief, Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual violence, Mental illness, Violence, Fatphobia, Rape, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, Chronic illness, Sexual content, Bullying, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Body shaming, Medical content, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Stalking

Minor: Classism

culzean's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Child abuse, Mental illness, Sexism, Alcohol, Body shaming, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Stalking, Bullying, Eating disorder, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Sexual harassment, Classism, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Sexual content, Medical content, and Medical trauma

aliyah0's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense fast-paced

• 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

If you hate any form of misogyny in books, then this book is not for you. Within the first four chapters I had to pause and abandon my inner feminist due to Aiden’s character. He definitely is an anti-hero so don’t expect a fake/soft morally-gray  written character like in light romance books. Although this book does deal with graphic content and ambiguous situations the plot was something I was intrigued by, and made me eager to continue the book. Overall, the book was okay, it was hard to surpass the blatant misogyny and psychopathic tendencies of some characters, but the plot was worth it! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Misogyny, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexual harassment

gracescross's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Kidnapping, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Child abuse, Death of parent, Mental illness, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Child death and Fire/Fire injury

blueberryelf's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

1.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Toxic relationship, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Rape, Blood, Child abuse, Alcohol, Bullying, Death of parent, Mental illness, and Suicide

camlee's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

5.0

DARK SO DARK…but v entertaining

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Stalking, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Medical trauma