Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

The Electric Heir by Victoria Lee

14 reviews

julesghouls27's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? It's complicated

5.0

I love this book so much, even if it hurts me to read it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Sexual assault

peachani's review against another edition

dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

2.75

The ending felt so rushed. It really could have used room to breathe and let us feel the full weight of the final action.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Child abuse, Confinement, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Pedophilia, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Rape, War, Xenophobia, Alcohol, Colonisation, Genocide, Pandemic/Epidemic, Torture, and Murder

Minor: Chronic illness, Bullying, Classism, Cursing, Dysphoria, Gun violence, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Ableism, Blood, Child death, Death of parent, Medical content, and Terminal illness

feijoamuffin's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

This rating might change at some point. This book was difficult to read. You know when you’re reading a book and think ‘these topics are hitting too close to home for me in a bad way right now and I should probably stop reading this’ but read it anyway because the storyline has you hooked? Yeah that was me 😅 Hopefully it was worth it but seriously guys it’s well worth checking all of the content warnings for this instead of diving in head first.

On a much lighter note; Noam and Dara are precious and must be protected at all costs.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Addiction, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Rape, Sexual assault, Drug abuse, Drug use, Torture, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Blood, and Child abuse

icy_queen's review

dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Violence, Toxic relationship, Drug abuse, Death, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, Alcoholism, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, and Child abuse

Moderate: Eating disorder and Sexual content

Minor: War

tkhenry99's review

3.0

This book was a bit of a let down. It was also wayyyy darker than I expected and I really wasn’t expecting Noam and Lerher’s relationship. Besides that, several of the conversations about grooming, rape, etc. got very repetitive and were the same thing every time. I also didn’t really like that Dara just had every issue the author could think of. The author had to split all the page time between the sexual abuse, substance abuse, various mental illnesses, and eating disorder so nothing ever really felt developed. It felt like Dara’s character was traumatized just for the sake of having a traumatized character, and not because the author really wanted to address any of this topics. I felt like, though the issues were obviously connected to one root cause, the author didn’t draw that connection very well and Dara’s character was undeveloped/underexplored as a result. The book would’ve benefitted from flashbacks, not just Dara and Noam thinking about past events. The ending also wasn’t very satisfying. Overall I did enjoy the book and found it engaging, but it definitely could’ve been better. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, Toxic relationship, Pedophilia, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Confinement, Drug use, Incest, and Medical content

rowthecanoe's review

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Child abuse, War, Alcohol, Blood, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, and Suicidal thoughts

iridaceae's review against another edition

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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, and War

Moderate: Confinement, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Gore, Medical trauma, and Self harm

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Car accident, Colonisation, Homophobia, Vomit, and Torture

callikat's review against another edition

challenging dark 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

4.25

Both of these books are great, but I will admit this one is much more adult than TFK, just in case anyone wants their kids to read this. It can definitely be a teaching moment (there's nothing graphic), but just be aware. As an adult though I loved this one as well, and I especially appreciate her handling of:

Spoiler

the relationship between Noam and Lehrer. It's not portrayed as a "romantic" thing (looking at you Twilight 👀), and she really keeps a nice balance between Noam's own angst/feelings after being groomed but she also makes it very clear that this relationship is wrong (usually using Dara as the voice of reason).

I think it's an important subject to talk about, since kids can be so easily manipulated, and I think she handles it well. And it's easy to understand, if a teenager were to read this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Eating disorder

shadow_wolf's review against another edition

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Rape, Toxic relationship, and War

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Xenophobia

Minor: Death of parent, Kidnapping, Police brutality, and Torture

katestermonster's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Mental illness, Addiction, Toxic relationship, War, Violence, and Pedophilia