Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

Shadow Kiss by Richelle Mead

27 reviews

robotnik's review against another edition

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dark funny fast-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? No

4.0

So this book and I were having a good time, enjoying ourselves, just getting along. And, then the last few chapters happened and they hurt me and they hurt me bad. I'm going to go to bed now and not sleep as I think about my emotionally distraught feelings. 
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lilradridinghood's review against another edition

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3.0

The best part of this book is Rose and Christian's friendship. But Rose is still so bratty and I don't see why two guys like her so much. I do appreciate how the story has Rose weighing the meaning of her duty after being told "they come first" all her life. I just wish it didn't take the form of her being in love with a much older man.
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aehollins21's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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sydditt's review against another edition

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

4.5

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tiana_king's review against another edition

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

5.0

The last book had a fair bit of action at the very end but it was nothing compared to this. We learn more about spirit, see Victor again, see ghosts, and kill more Strigoi. Hold onto your hats folks. I was not a fan of this narrator.
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scarlettereads's review against another edition

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dark tense
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No

2.0

How is it that authors of the mid-late naughties got away with writing adult/minor relationships like they were romantic but just a bit frowned upon instead of actually illegal, and then get that  p u b l i s h e d ?  Certain scenes in this book made me feel physically ill just reading it. How could somebody write that?!

The Vampire Academy books continue to come so close to plainly saying that Dimitri is a paedophile but at the last second pivot one degree, just scraping by without saying what we all know to be true. So, so close, yet so far away.

Obviously I loved these books as a teen—I thought the fight scenes were cool, I enjoyed the vampire lore, and I thought Adrian was funny—though I was incredibly disturbed by Rose and Dimitri's "forbidden romance" being that I was only three years younger than Rose at the time. At fifteen it was very clear to me that Dimitri is a paedophile, so why did Richelle Mead feel okay writing something so despicable in a romantic light (rather than as a cautionary tale or something of the sort), and why was Razorbill so keen to publish it? And as a young adult romance, I might add!

Bad, bad, bad, terrible, very not good, disgusting, etc.
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dixiecarroll's review against another edition

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fast-paced

3.5

These are addicting! But damn I forgot how YA punishes girls for having sex. Also the age difference thing … it’s getting to me…. Anyway maybe she’ll kill the poor guy and date an age appropriate man…. Time will tell …
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dlsmk's review against another edition

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dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

4.5

At the end of the audiobook: 
Audible hopes you have enjoyed this programme.
Me: crying

What an asshole of a book. @Richelle I have bones to pick.
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joyfulfoodie's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-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

4.75

I liked this one better than book two… all the way up until the end. I did not like the end. Taking off a quarter star for the end. 
Was it probably the right narrative move? Ok maybe. But I don’t like it. 
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ashleysager's review against another edition

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

2.75

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