Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

A Touch of Malice by Scarlett St. Clair

96 reviews

whatkatyread87's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful tense slow-paced

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

2.25

This one was not my favorite of this series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Hate crime, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Blood, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

emking12's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault

cscheue's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Sexual assault

nonotyoshi's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Infertility, Misogyny, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

belkerd's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Blood

yarisbooksandbevs's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

3.5

Liked this one a lot more. It’s nice to see Persephone start to step into Her power

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, and War

Moderate: Infertility, Kidnapping, and Grief

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, and Torture

nicoleheims's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault

ademusoyo's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-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

4.25

I liked this book more than A Touch of Darkness and a Touch of Ruin. We're really able to see Persephone come into her own and embrace who she is. This book definitely ended things on a cliffhanger. I'm excited to see how everything ends and I plan on going back and reading things from Hades point of view as well.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault

megthecatlady's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

5.0

This is one of the best series I've read thus far. I'm sad I only have two more books before it's over. 

The character development for Persephone in this book was so freaking good. The development of her relationship with Hades was also great to watch. I love that the author has continued to make the side characters have stories just as interesting as the main characters and that they each bring something to the table. I'm also really glad that Persephone has friends - I feel like that's so rare to get in romance novels because it's usually just the hero and heroine pining for each other with no time for anyone else. Or maybe that's just my lack of knowledge in the romantasy genre speaking. I love, love, love this series and this was probably my favorite book of the series so far - I'd give it more than 5 stars if I could. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Violence

Minor: Death, Rape, and Death of parent

ninahuynh's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

3 things:

1. A few of the sex scenes are confusing, some of which I think could do without. As the amount of explicit scenes increase and how they arrive to it feel... sudden and might I say, cheap. I makes their relationship's foundation as sex. In some cases, it just feels out of place.
2. I like how Scarlett St. Clair illustrates the deep trauma that comes with boundaries violation and sexual assault. I like that it wasn't just glossed over or simplified; everyone deals with trauma and heals from trauma differently.
3. Who is Theo? Dunno if that's a typo in my ebook but could not find who Theo is. First scene with Theseus.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gore, Hate crime, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Child death, Torture, Vomit, Cannibalism, Abortion, and Pregnancy