Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Broken Knight by L.J. Shen

5 reviews

honyombooks's review against another edition

Whelp that was completely misogynistic garbage. Wow just wow. This was like a man’s wet dream under the guise of a romance novel. What shit. Oh no Luna is changing to be more certain in herself but Knight is not having it. From constantly being shitty but excusing it with my mom is dying and

Luna slept with someone else

pity me bullshit. Luna didn’t grow she still bends to whatever Knight wants and puts up with such toxic behavior. Basically everything outside of Knight we see some growth but nope Luna must go back to being whatever in Knight’s presence 🙄

If you want to read about a hellah toxic relationship under the guise of ‘soulmates’ go for it. I still can’t BELIEVE how everyone in the book continues to encourage this bullshit. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, Terminal illness, and Death of parent

romantasyreader81's review against another edition

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Rape, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, and Abandonment

lmh1491's review against another edition

dark emotional funny 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Emotional abuse

brucethegirl's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

2.5

On one hand- this is terribly written. There’s no sense of an actual plot. There’s misunderstandings that make no sense for the sake of misunderstanding. There’s terrible ableism and victim blaming. 
Literally

Luna is hurt and thinks knight forced a blowjob. NOT REALIZING she signed her consent to him??? That’s actual two page dilemma that happens.

 

Too often in the beginning Knight FORCES Luna to talk, there is no concern about the mental state she's in to do so. He and his idiot friends- all teenagers, without training or physiological degrees- think it's high time she talks, so therefore she should. So they hold her hands and try to make her talk. This was such a triggering scene. And the worst, is this is all portrayed as Luna just "taking too long" to bite the bullet and use her voice. There's an air of "what an ass." but its also a very strong "This is the tough love she needs." Yea no. I need Shen to take at least one course of basic compassion. Let alone disability rights. 

On the other hand - think I wasn’t sobbing,

when Rosie was dying/died

whole tears falling down my cheek at certain scenes. I also finished the whole book, and I do not hesitate to dnf. 

The official rating is a 2.5. I would have given this a 1 based on the negative issues I have with it, but I kept wanting to read more (so I added a star) and another half star for pulling that strong emotion out of me when I rarely cry for books. 

Would I pay actual money for this book? No. Would I get it free on kindle? Yea sure why not.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Rape, Vomit, and Stalking

vampires's review against another edition

0.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Cancer, Emotional abuse, Rape, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Death of parent