Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Ein Fluch so ewig und kalt by Brigid Kemmerer

32 reviews

kcmg710's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny hopeful inspiring tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Emotional abuse, Violence, Blood, Body shaming, Physical abuse, Self harm, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Suicide attempt, War, Animal death, Blood, Child death, Gore, Grief, Animal cruelty, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Murder, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Vomit

foldingthepage_kayleigh's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, Death, Suicide attempt, Grief, Blood, Body horror, Ableism, Death of parent, War, Medical content, Chronic illness, Alcohol, and Kidnapping

Minor: Sexual harassment and Pedophilia

qrschulte's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

Enjoyable book, but I didn’t love it as a whole. And I CALLED IT!

Things I loved: 
- a protagonist with a disability who is affected by their disability but not defined by it. So refreshing that she was a fully realized person
- the Rhen narrator. Honestly, the book might have been better with just him narrating the whole thing. 
- believable reasoning for why someone from our world could ride a fucking horse

Things I did not love: 
- How whiny the Harper narrator made her sound sometimes. It made it a lot less believable it was the same character between the narrators. 
- The monster narration (so fucking creepy/scary). Could have done without that. 
- The parts where it was said Harper was “not like other girls” *cue vomiting*

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Medical content, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, War, Ableism, Alcohol, Blood, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Cancer, Suicide, Torture, Emotional abuse, and Grief

Moderate: Abandonment, Body horror, Self harm, Classism, Death of parent, Gore, Murder, and Stalking

Minor: Gun violence, Child death, and Infidelity

raypaws's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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

3.75

thought i wouldn't like it too much at first , but it ended up being really enjoyable! i tend to enjoy fairy tale retellings so i may be biased, but it was a great slowburn and hard to put down :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Torture

Moderate: Death of parent, War, Kidnapping, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Cancer and Chronic illness

katievallin's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious reflective tense medium-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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Violence, Torture, Blood, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Physical abuse, Stalking, Alcohol, Gore, War, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide attempt, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Gun violence, Sexual violence, and Sexual assault

Minor: Child death, Vomit, Abandonment, Pedophilia, Infidelity, Rape, and Ableism

asahome's review against another edition

4.0

A man falls for the 399th woman dropped into his lap to court. A woman labeled inferior for her cerebral palsy suddenly finds a way to have it not be a problem.

Content Warnings added by A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer - Book Trigger Warnings
Representation: Disability (Cerebral palsy), MLM couple (side characters)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Death, Kidnapping, and War

Moderate: Terminal illness, Gun violence, Alcohol, and Death of parent

annorabrady's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Blood, Kidnapping, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Self harm, Outing, Abandonment, Child death, Death of parent, Cancer, Vomit, War, Violence, Torture, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Ableism

mo_books_read's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

I love the fantasy element and how it's a dual pov and with the female lead you truly feel that she is a fish out of water in the fantasy world. Also she has cerebral palsy which gives her a limp but she never lets it define/ makes her whole personality but it is there and she works around it and is still a complete lovable badass.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Violence, War, Cancer, Death, Blood, Chronic illness, Alcohol, Murder, and Torture

thatbookbitch's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, Emotional abuse, Medical content, and Violence

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death of parent, Cancer, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and War

Minor: Self harm, Blood, Alcohol, and Vomit

anjasfairylights's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious reflective 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

Okay I could not put it down. I read till 2am in the morning to finish this because I was so encaptured in the story! 
I like the story as a retelling of Beauty and the Beast, especially the twist about it that the author put in there. I‘m in love with Harper, the character‘s amazing - I think it‘s really well-made how her cerebral palsy is just part of her, how it just blends into everything she does without any effort in the writing visible, or how she learns to stand her ground. I also liked reading about Rhen‘s perspective, it was way better than some other two-perspective-stories I‘ve read recently, simply because it was more believable, more human.
I wish we could have seen more of Grey though, he seems like a really interesting character, but what I‘ve seen from the second book, I will get that very soon. I gotta say though, towards the second half and end of the book I still had the feeling

Harper‘s love interest could have gone either way. The romance wasn‘t as pronounced (and smutty, which in this case I appreciated) as in other cases, so it was not quite clear where the author wanted to go with this - even though it was kinda predictable because there‘s, well, the fairytale? But you never know. And Harper had good, nice, lovely moments with both of them? I loved reading about how they both warmed up to her eventually and became smitten by her personality, the same way yi did. Very cute.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, and Gore