Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

Gleam by Raven Kennedy

54 reviews

smut_sluut's review

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, Pregnancy, and War

kirsti_jackson's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, and Trafficking

izzy_fg's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Sexual violence, Trafficking, and Pregnancy

lea_lea's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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: Body horror, Sexual violence, Slavery, Toxic relationship, and Trafficking

mostlyharmless42's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Death

Moderate: Addiction, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Gaslighting, War, and Injury/Injury detail

frantically's review

dark emotional funny slow-paced

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

3.5

The lit student in me, the critic, would like to rate this 3 or even 2 stars. Nothing happened. Just like in the last book. But the Aurip (?) stan in me won out.

You know, maybe sometimes we don't need a plot. Maybe some healing and some sex is enough.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Addiction, Confinement, Misogyny, Sexual violence, and Pregnancy

Minor: Rape and War

kimberlyyyreads's review

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

When I catch the mf that Midas is it’s OVER FOR HIM. 

Auren my love, u literally deserve the entire world. I am so glad that she grew within herself and learned to prioritize herself. But I am absolutely DEVASTATED for her 😭💔

Slade deserves more book time 🫵, I need to see more of him and hope that the next books show me that. He is so fineeeee. 

As for Slade & Auren, I wish we got to see more of their relationship. It seems like we’ve mostly seen Midas and Auren relationship rather than Slade and her and I hope that the next books show me MORE of them. 

The literal plot twist at the end had my jaw DROPPING, I CANNOT believe what I had read and need time to sit on this because WTF?!? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

elliexshepherd's review

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

itsbrianascall's review

adventurous dark emotional tense 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Murder, Gaslighting, and War

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Misogyny, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

homesweetread's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

5.0

Aussitôt le tome 2 terminé, je n'avais d'autre choix que d'enchainer directement sur la suite et j'ai vraiment bien fait ! Ici on retrouve Midas qui m'a vraiment terrorisé pendant toute l'histoire. Il est tellement imprévisible, impulsif et manipulateur qu’il en devient terrifiant. 

De son côté Auren continue de déconstruire sa bulle de protection pour reconnaître les abus et sortir de ce schéma de maltraitance. Le développement psychologique est vraiment bien maitrisé et encore une fois, on ne peut qu’apprécier sa force. La quatrième armée et le Wrath m'ont vraiment manqué et je n’attendais qu’une chose : qu’elle quitte ce stupide palais au plus vite. 

La personnalité de Rip est hyper intéressante à creuser et je suis encore plus tomber amoureuse de lui. Côté intrigue, plusieurs passages m'ont briser le cœur et le cliffhancer était vraiment horrible ! Heureusement que la suite est déjà sortie, parce que je n’aurais pas pu rester sur cette fin.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, and Grief