Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

Corupt by Penelope Douglas

18 reviews

aakriti_sharma's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

4.25

Okay so yeah this is my 4th penelope douglas book IN A ROW! It was amazing a d challenging...I really loved the character of all the boys except Damon, but its okay he has his own problems...Michael is such a sweetheart♡♡...i really wish there was a boy like him in realty exept the wrong things he did...I really want to live a life like Rika, but yeah some things were too intense to be experienced in real life. Penelope's writing is toxicating, it keeps you hooked till the end, regardless of how boring/cringe/dark you find the book...I really loved the epilouge, wrapping up the whole stor and giving it a meaning. I think what I learnt feom this book is that you should do what you dream for, not expecting anything from anyone.
Overall it was really nicely written!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Blood, Car accident, and Death of parent

zc2's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring mysterious 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? Yes

4.5

I didn’t like how

micheal never apologizes to her like it was a really traumatizing event and he straight up was like huh that sucks wanna make out? end

the whole tense plot of why are they in jail and why is it Rikas fault really had me on edge wondering what’s gonna happen next. Recommend if you like romantic thrillers!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gun violence, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

becflourish's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Stalking, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Misogyny, Sexism, Blood, Car accident, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

moonlina's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

0.25

It troubles me how the autor overlooks rape in this book and make its sexy. (especially how rika gives a fnck abt it)if its your kink go off dude but for me it was trauma triggering (wich is my fault) so be careful <3

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Stalking, Death of parent, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Classism

Moderate: Kidnapping and Stalking

It troubles me how the autor overlooks rape in this book and make its sexy. if its your kink go off dude but for me it was trauma triggering (wich is my fault) so be careful <3

livilu's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

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

2.0

I just… it’s a very cis-white-rich-straigth-book. HUGE y/n main character with a harem, not a good harem though. The 🌶 is cool, al least we know that they where okey with what was going on. 
All the warnings that i mentioned where just there and no one actually talked about them, seriously. Wouldn’t  recommend unless you want what i just said. 
ALSO, for the love of god the amount of toxicity holy molly. I still don’t know how the book ended the way it did. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Car accident, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

salusgh's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body shaming, Child abuse, Death, Incest, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

sierrachenee's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

3.5

The 85% mark/ chapter 25 part of this book gets five stars and will live rent free in my head for awhile 😌

This book is supposed to be dark romance about these men that want to get revenge on this girl that made some of them go to jail a few years ago. My problem with it was that it wasn’t really that dark and if you are gonna go there then go big. I would have preferred to see more stuff they did to mess with her and the others pushing Michael’s limits more. I also think that Rika should have saved herself more in a few scenarios since that seemed like kind of the point. It’s a fun read if you throw your morals out of the window.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Gun violence, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Stalking, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Animal death, Body shaming, and Car accident

agsaraheve's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Incest, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

Moderate: Child abuse