Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Il mare della rovina by Pam Godwin

80 reviews

wickan2010's review against another edition

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adventurous dark fast-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? No

3.0

It’s 70% spice and 30% a pirate adventure. Enjoyable, but I do not recommend reading it in public if you blush easily. 
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maelien's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark 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

5.0

Checking TWs on this one is a MUST. The triggers are very graphic and prevalent. 
That aside - this book was so spellbinding. I felt like I was right there in the action from the first words. Bennet was what I always pretended to be as a young kid playing Pirates 🏴‍☠️ bold, brazen, sultry. It was gut wrenching to experience the atrocities happening to her, soothed with the tenderness of two men who love her so fiercely and protectively ❤️‍🔥 I can already feel the book hangover taking hold of me 
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itriedtobegood's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional tense

4.75

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bluestockingbookshop's review against another edition

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adventurous dark fast-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

5.0

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one_more_chapter96's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful tense 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? It's complicated

4.0

Really well written and I loved the twists and turns - the sorry didn’t follow a simple arc which was different and enjoyable. Sad and dark at times, definitely check TW’s, but super sweet and spicy as well. 
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mcroche's review against another edition

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

3.0

It's clear that Godwin did a lot of research for the book. Some context felt gratuitous and included for the sole purpose of establishing that research was done. The actions of the characters often felt contrived. It was an interesting enough read.
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kaitlintracy's review against another edition

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adventurous dark 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

4.0

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amyreadsxoxo's review against another edition

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4.0

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deathmetalheron's review against another edition

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adventurous dark tense 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? No

1.75

Sea of Ruin has a lot going for it. The setting is great, the character dynamics are certainly there, the author knows her chops. The romantic tension is palpable. 
But the delivery of many of these aspects is disappointingly subpar. The characters go through humiliation parade after parade. The garnish of shipping and naval vernacular immediately gives way to crude words for sexual interaction, the transition between the two being jarring at best and non-existent at worse. 
The height of this book comes at Bennett's capture by Ashley Cutler--the dynamics indicated before suggest a conflict between Bennett as a character and her struggle between two loves. I daresay the second fifth to quarter of this book is pretty much phenomenal. 
You could see it in my reading journal, but at the halfway point this book goes from a high tension pirate romance to an absolute slog. Some critical decision are made of Ashley's character that really draw the line and make him seem a bit more manipulative and Bennett (who's been characterized as being headstrong and skeptical) brushes them off. I get this is the appeal of a captor-captive romance but the characterization is quite literally strewn off the deck into the sea, NSFW
squirted into the ocean much like Ashley is described as doing repeatedly.

The final act is an absolute slog where Bennett is NSFW
kidnapped and raped
and then she is
kidnapped and tortured.
The end of the story basically just happens to her. I was turned off from this book at the halfway point, but by the end I was uniquely frustrated. 
Even during the good times, the way sexual interaction is written is hysterical and I saved numerous quotes. In a better story, they would be a fun aspect to giggle about and another layer to add to the story's atmosphere, but given the dark humiliating train to the end they come across as severely out of place and way too lighthearted. I was really hoping this book would be it, but MAN it was not.

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paigeantonacci's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense

4.5

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