Reviews tagging 'Racism'

Red Thorns by Rina Kent

10 reviews

aichaa's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

3.0

meh

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Cancer and Terminal illness

Minor: Bullying, Pedophilia, Racism, and Xenophobia

cielosiluminado's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.0

no plot, just sex. usually that makes me dislike a book but for some reason it worked for sebnaomi.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Cancer, Racism, and Sexual assault

Minor: Pedophilia, Xenophobia, and Death of parent

solaris_wintergale's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Sexual violence

Moderate: Racial slurs and Racism

Trigger warnings include: CNC, primal play? penetration, loss of virginity(is that considered a trigger?)

shaykay's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.5

I LOVED Naomi in the previous books and just needed her book. I wanted to know what happened between her and Seb, and I wanted to know how these two were even going to make up. But really, I just loved Naomi. She was just such an angsty lady, and I loved her arc in Reina's books. She didn't disappoint. I don't get how this book isn't more popular. I always see the Royal Elite and Legacy of Gods talked about. But these two are wild! It does end in a crazy cliffhanger! But we go back in time and start with how these two even got together, and we end this book with the bet. The bet reminded me so much of After, and I wish it was a bigger deal all throughout the book, but it felt like it was forgotten. It happened a year or two before Reina's book, but the timeline showed that the dare was maybe a month or two before Reina's accident. That was weird. I really wish we had seen their kid in Legacy, and I'm just curious how they will come back after this ending, but these two are flipping crazy, and he likes to chase her. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Child abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, and Stalking

Minor: Cancer, Gun violence, Death of parent, and Alcohol

gracelyn's review against another edition

3.0

⋆ ⁎ ★° ⁀ ➷ 3 steamy

“I don't want to witness the moment when the perfect star actually shows to the world that he's not so perfect after all.”  

I don’t know how to feel about this book. Some parts, I loved, some felt unnecessary and dragged out. Did I like this book? Not sure. Did I like the characters? Yes. I enjoyed Sebastian Weaver over Naomi “Nao” Chester. I felt that Naomi probably has more depth to her, but I felt like I didn’t get to know her and I didn’t know who she was really. I felt that we explored more about Sebastian characters. However, there are many things that wasn’t explained about Sebastian. I am hoping however that I see more of their emotional connection in the second book, rather than their physical.

Content warnings:

Non-con/dub-con, rape fantasy

Tropes:

• Toxic relationship
• ”The Bet”
• Bad boy x Anti-social girl

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Child abuse, Racism, Rape, and Sexual content

xo_sbaby's review against another edition

dark fast-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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Racism and Alcohol

Minor: Body shaming and Abandonment

krystalframe's review against another edition

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Sexual content

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Cancer

anaya_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

Honestly was a fever dream but definitely read trigger warnings. There were some good plot twists but if you pay attention you can see them coming. Hella smut tho. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Confinement, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Car accident, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

airazedy's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Racism and Sexual assault

nat29's review

dark emotional tense

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Racism and Abandonment

Minor: Emotional abuse, Death of parent, and Murder