Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Steel Princess by Rina Kent

9 reviews

marygg3's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

Okay so we finally got Aiden's POV and the dark romance is romancing at last.
Elsa continues to be annoying af when she refuses to accept what we all know, and she chooses delulu every time and that is not the solulu, girl.
But I like it better than the previous one, and the snippets of Astrid and Levi were nice. I like how you can see the other stories starting to intertwine.
The mystery got really interesting and that ending was a masterclas  in cliffhangers.
And, of course, the smut continues to do the smutting pretty well.
So... I'll go grab the next one, thank you very much. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, and Blood

Minor: Confinement and Kidnapping

hibbiley19's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence and Blood

Moderate: Kidnapping

sshpurple1's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Grief, Stalking, and Gaslighting

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Blood, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

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

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

andeng's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

gracescross's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Child death and Death of parent

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