Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Steel Princess by Rina Kent

6 reviews

booklloveer101's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Addiction, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Stalking, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Sexual harassment

briochebun's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

2 out of 5 ☆’s.

”You don't have to be ashamed of who you are with me, Elsa. You can be a fucking lunatic, and I still won't let you go.”

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*Sigh* I’m not sure where to begin with this one…

I had high hopes for ”Steel Princess” when I started the novel — it seemed as though it was going to be different from its predecessor & that some necessary character growth would happen at some point in the story — but it seems as though my faith was misplaced.

The main issue that I had with ”Steel Princess” was that it felt unnecessary. It seemed as though there was no character growth and minimal plot progression at best. The story mostly consisted of Elsa stating that she was going take a stance against Aiden and then immediately giving into him and sleeping with him a couple of pages later (I can understand characters changing their minds a couple of times throughout the story — but changing it every couple of pages becomes frustrating). 

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I will probably come back to this series at some point in the future because I am curious as to what happens plot-wise — but at this point in time it’s not a favorite of mine.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Kidnapping, Death of parent, and Sexual harassment

jen1804's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-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

3.0

Despite the spice scenes in this getting a down thumb from me, and despite it not being very well written in places, this book actually has a really interesting and mysterious plot which is gradually unravelling. And for that it gets three stars.
Check trigger warnings before reading because this second instalment of Aiden and Elsa’s story still features non/dubious consent and the narrative covers some dark plot points. Overall I am enjoying the story though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Child abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Blood, and Kidnapping

Minor: Confinement, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

rabbitsdolly's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, and Death of parent

culzean's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

anouverlinden_'s review against another edition

dark fast-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? Yes

2.0

This book only gets two stars because I could not put this down and read it in like two days. 

Like the previous book I did not like this. The whole time I was frustrated with the plot, the characters, with everything. 
Teenage me would've devoured this book but realistic and rational me hates this book and the love interest, Aiden, because if he were real (and the relationship) it would be the definition for 'toxic, abusive, manipulative relationship'. Most of the time I can kind of look past the assault but in this book it's so bad I couldn't, not once.

the fact that Aiden even admitted to wanting to rape her when she didn't want to have sex still haunts me. I don't get why people love him

 

Also, if you can't read clichés do not read this. This book is filled with clichés and tropes (I think) -almost- everyone hates. Another thing is too many use of the same descriptive elements, I think I'm not lying when I say that Aiden (at least) described ten times Elsa as 'politicale correct', like find a synonym or something. A little bit of creativity is not too much too ask right? I mean nothing really is creative in this book.

The only reason I'm reading the books about Aiden and Elsa is because I want to read the book about Cole and Silver (that is book six so I still have a long way to go :( )

I will read the third book but I know I'm gonna hate it as much as this one, if not more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Blood, Death of parent, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Kidnapping

Minor: Adult/minor relationship