Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

The Wicked King, by Holly Black

23 reviews

em1ani's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Emotional abuse, Alcoholism, Violence, Blood, Bullying, Death, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Gaslighting

syerrajc's review

adventurous tense medium-paced

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

3.5

If you like plot-heavy fantasy you will love this, if you enjoy character development or romance you will not....   

Spoiler

The ending was disappointing, with very little character development for Cardan, I thought he had changed and then turns around to fuck her over again, i am also annoyed at Jude's attitude overall by the end

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, and Kidnapping

lizzye33's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Confinement, and Violence

Moderate: War, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Drug use, Classism, Alcohol, Vomit, Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Outing, and Murder

linaslittlelibrary's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Alcoholism, Blood, Injury/injury detail, Emotional abuse, and Murder

Moderate: Kidnapping

katiareadz's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I can't even describe how mad I am at the ending...I feel SO betrayed but I loved it regardless. Most of all though,I love jude<3. Not just love,ADORE JUDE. She is so amazingly written and so realistic as well???Cardan has nothing on her,she carried THE WHOLE BOOK. She is honestly the definition of a strong female protagonist and I love that for her. Maybe I'm a little biased because I relate to her to a whole other level...but at the end of the day she still ate and left no crumbs. The writing is excellent,possibly magic itself. The settings are so vividly described,the characters very complex AND multidimensional. So in conclusion..THE BOOK IS PERFECT,even better than the first in the series which is a rare phenomenon.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Torture, Murder, Emotional abuse, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Vomit

kristlas's review against another edition

adventurous funny inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, War, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Kidnapping, Genocide, Addiction, Emotional abuse, Torture, Classism, Sexual content, Vomit, Abandonment, Bullying, and Alcohol

noboyfriend_literally0's review

adventurous funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, and Murder

Minor: Death of parent

theinfinitebookcase's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

3.5

My feelings about this book were much the same as the first (a good read for plot, but not for characters. Plot and political stuff was much more interesting than the Jude and Cardan's relationship, unless the relationship directly impacted the politics). I still have no investment in either of the characters and do not really understand or care for their relationship (I thought by this point we would begin to see them like each other a bit, but I can hardly tell if they like each other at all. Perhaps this is the point and its just not for me, but I truthfully don't understand the appeal of their relationship, when it seems they just hate each other and have no chemistry). Still, again it was definitely an entertaining read with a good plot and I will be picking up book #3! So I can't complain too much. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Death, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship

micapellin's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Blood, Emotional abuse, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Body shaming, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Gaslighting, Injury/injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Physical abuse, and Vomit

b0ygenius's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense fast-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

5.0

WHAT THE FUCK

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Injury/injury detail, Confinement, Medical content, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Torture, Violence, Abandonment, Child abuse, Death, Murder, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, and Kidnapping