Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Regno di carne e fuoco by Jennifer L. Armentrout

27 reviews

carlyjoann's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

I don’t know how I feel about this series yet. I want to like it but so many things are throwing me off. The writing is my biggest issue so far, the repetition of phrases and repeating how the story progresses are incredibly annoying. 
I’m always left with more questions and while it kind of makes me want to keep reading it’s also just annoying to never get answers just more questions. And it’s because the main character knows almost nothing that we as the reader know nothing. 
It felt like not much happened until more than halfway through and even then it was just confusing. I was getting bored at many points as they rehashed the same plot points over and over without doing much of anything. 
I do like the main couple at points and some of the side characters too. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Confinement, Sexual assault, Torture, and Death of parent

zomigi's review against another edition

adventurous 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? No

3.0

I didn't like this one as much as the first one, because I spent almost the entire book screaming in my head OH MY GOD JUST TALK TO EACH OTHER!! I wouldn't quite call this the miscommunication trope, but it's close, and it was super annoying. Some of it was understandable, but some of it was forced, IMO. Also, I found it annoying how poorly copy edited this book was—tons of typos, missing quotation marks, flat-out incorrectly used (like "bemused" instead of "amused") and even non-real words (like "disoritentating"), etc. All that said, I still enjoyed the payoff in the (near) resolution in their relationship, the sexual tension, the smut itself, the action scenes, and the continued world building.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, and Blood

Minor: Sexual assault

nonotyoshi's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content, and Grief

Moderate: Child death and Religious bigotry

Minor: Infidelity, Sexual assault, Torture, and Medical trauma

bookishmind_13's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Torture, Murder, and War

Minor: Body shaming, Confinement, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Classism

amyydarling's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent

dlsmk's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, and Torture

mari_books's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional fast-paced

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

3.75

This book has some solid moments. Good medium spice…some of the time. MMC came off as a creep for 70% of scenes. Poppy is not a good narrator. I will say, her world building is kind of all over the place but it almost feels like I will accept whatever to get to the next chapter! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Blood, and War

rasbneon's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

babypancake's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Minor: Sexual assault

storykeeper_saga's review against another edition

dark emotional slow-paced

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

1.5

This book has exactly one thing over From Blood and Ash. It felt like shit actually happened. Was any of it good? No. Not in the slightest. I have no clue what's going on at the end of the second book in this series. This is a cash grab, and you can not convince me otherwise. By the time you reach the end of a second book in a series, you should know who the antagonist is and why they are the antagonist. You should have a general idea of the world the main character came from. The major players of the story should have all made an appearance, and you should have a pretty good idea of the trajectory of the plot. Instead, we get Poppy, the most special Special Girl who was ever special and Queen Ileana, who is the antagonist but has never actually appeared on page, and I frankly don't know if she ever will be.

Also, if anyone happens to see this. This book should have a trigger warning for SA. The way Casteel treats Poppy's consent is awful. On that, I hate their relationship. It isn't even well developed enough to call toxic. It doesn't make any sense why these two are so deeply in love. Poppy should hate him. And no, I do not accept the "explanation" provided in the story. 

The worldbuilding is as shallow as a glass of water you spilled on your kitchen floor at 3am. Throwing in random details does not a well-built fantasy world make. 

If anyone was wondering, there are 604 ellipsis in this book. Yes, I counted so my numbers could be slightly off.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault and Violence