Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

A Curse for True Love by Stephanie Garber

29 reviews

bookfilledcottage's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Stephanie Garber writes beautifully and her way of describing characters as well as their feelings has such a gorgeous depth, that they truly jump out of the page.

I’d heart readers were generally diaappointed with the ending to this trilogy: but I can honestly say, I think this might’ve been my favourite of the three! 

The way everything started to click and was resolved felt satisfying and made a lot of sense to me. I think the story developed really well since the first novel and I actually am very pleased with the way everything was wrapped up.

Now, do I think this is the best romantic famtasy I’ve ever read? Personally, I like others better and I do think this saga might be a tad over-hyped. 

Nevertheless, I thoroughly enjoyed the books and read them as fast as I could because I wanted to know how things would turn out in the end. So, they’re kind of perfect for a reading slump if you’re struggling to read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Blood, and Kidnapping

esterslibrary's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

kirstenf's review

adventurous emotional hopeful lighthearted sad medium-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Grief

Minor: Torture, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

deluna's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Blood, Murder, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Child death

kari_f's review against another edition

dark

1.5

I was going to give this book 2 stars, because it was overly frilly, and I only liked one character, and felt like it had no plot. But then the nonsensical epilogue happened. 

Tell me how a curse can have eyes and ears, enough sentience to understand human language and ability to follow and watch characters, but it doesn’t have lungs to be able to take a breath. Because THAT is where we need to suspend belief, here. Just… what?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Bullying, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, and Abandonment

Minor: Death of parent

taylorjayne's review against another edition

0.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Blood, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Blood, Stalking, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

karissahodge's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Blood, and Murder

Minor: Cursing

juliesleseecke's review

emotional hopeful mysterious sad fast-paced

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

2.5

I am sad. This felt rushed and messy. There are so many plot holes and lose ends. Please rewrite it, my babies deserve better 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Animal death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, and Abandonment

ameydireads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-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

“But the problem with hope was also what made it so wonderful. Once a bit of hope had come to life, it was difficult to kill.” 

 

The arch has been opened, the Valors are free and Evangeline has lost her memories. Without her memories, she’s bound to believe everything Apollo says. Apollo sees this as a second chance to do better. Her heart tries to warn her, but she doesn’t know any better. See, always listen to your heart! Jacks is convinced that she lost her memories because he used the stones to travel back in time. He wants to let her live in peace but his love for her keeps him close. 

 

Evangeline getting her memories back was expected, but it somehow felt a little anticlimactic. Also, I hated Aurora and Apollo. They are horrible. Glad to see that Apollo at least got a fitting end. And what’s up with LaLa?

She finally gets to the love of her life, but then decides not to pursue it? Weird, especially when she put a curse on Evangeline and Apollo as motivation to open the Valory arch.

 

 

Overall, an OK read but it did miss coherence and I still had a lot of questions about this magical world which were left unanswered. The focus is more on the romantic side of the story instead of the magical side of the story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship

anna_harpist's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Violence

Minor: Torture