Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

The Prison Healer by Lynette Noni

64 reviews

karirahlf's review

adventurous hopeful medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Rape, and Self harm

laurenleigh's review

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Kind of a bit of a slow start for me, but wow was I hooked by the end! I picked up the sequel immediately, which is kind of rare for me these days. This is definitely YA fantasy, but it’s still set in a deathly prison, so pretty dark at times. It’s not quite like anything else I’ve read, which is always a plus. The last 100 pages are wild and there were multiple twists that I absolutely did NOT see coming. Quite remarkable! It will be so interesting to see how this plot progresses over the next book and how the world building will deepen.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Forced institutionalization, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Child abuse, Drug abuse, Sexual assault, Violence, and Blood

jasperw's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-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? No

4.0

The first half of the book was a bit slow for my liking. The story was overall fun and good, but nothing too special to me, until the last like 100 pages. It was SUCH a strong finish and raised it from a 3.5/3.75 to a 4. It actually makes me curious for the future books and I am curious and may check them out. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Child abuse, Drug abuse, and Drug use

christygsp's review

4.5

I was surprised at how much I actually loved this book. The entire plot centres around the elemental trials and life in this crazy dangerous prison. 
Our main characters are engaging, interesting and encircled by such an interesting world. 
The ending……. I went out and got the next two books on almost that alone. I GOTSTA know what happens next! 
Careful of content/trigger warnings (I will list below) but the author didn’t go tooooo far with those so just be aware. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse, Gore, Self harm, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

csmall73's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny slow-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

3.0

This book was a little bit of let down. I feel sufficiently confused by the events that take place in this part of the story. But I am also intrigued enough to read the next installment. Kiva definitely got poop end of the stick in life and family. Left for an unreasonable amount of time, she becomes the prison healer. Takes insane amounts of crap from the filth of several countries. An impulsive and rash royal invites himself to prison as a way of getting information and intelligence gathering on a notorious rebel that happens to also be royal. We are up to three. Kiva takes the do no harm way to far and volunteers to take the place of her patient in trials. Basically give me liberty or give me death. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Medical content, Trafficking, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

av0universe's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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

I didn’t expect that ending?!

This book surprised me in a good way. I really like the worldbuilding and Kiva as the main character is interesting, to say the least. 

Tipp is the cutest character ever 🫶 and for the most part, I really liked the found family

Seriously, I can’t stop thinking about that ending. It blew my mind even though I guessed most of it. Amazing. The narrator is everything here.

I’m pretty sure I dreamed of this book today

Mother is dead.
I’m on my way to Vallenia.
It’s time to reclaim our kingdom.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, and Vomit

Moderate: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Vomit, and Sexual harassment

sheekapatak's review

adventurous dark emotional funny medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Rape, and Violence

letiross's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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: Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Drug abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, and Death of parent

Minor: Child abuse, Rape, and Sexual assault

lightn1ngb0lt's review

adventurous dark inspiring 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Self harm, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

g_c_geeks's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

I rlly liked this, especially the second half. Idk why it took me a while to get into it (probably bc I wasn’t fully paying attention to the audiobook), but once the second trial came around I was hooked. 
I really appreciated how information was revealed to us along w the FMC. The puzzle pieces were revealed in a satisfying way imo. And I loved the characters n can’t wait to see more of them in the next books. 
I thought the action was well done, n the introduction to the magic was intriguing, so I am excited to learn more about it :))

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Death, Self harm, and Death of parent

Minor: Child abuse, Drug abuse, and Suicidal thoughts