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Steel Princess by Rina Kent

6 reviews

chi__'s review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Sexual content, Medical content, and Stalking

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Violence, Kidnapping, and Death of parent

Minor: Sexual harassment

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

soniagarciap'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

1.5

En esta él es más tóxico si es posible y ella a veces es como terca, pero deja su brazo torcer en las situaciones en las que es más fácil irse y mostrar que estás enfadada (o sea no son situaciones en las que él esté manipulándola muchísimo). Las escenas de sexo son sin más, a veces no sabes qué pintan ahí (no sé si es una novela erótica o no, la verdad; si no lo es hay demasiadas para lo que importan a la trama -o sea 0) y otras veces están al borde de la violación. La trama es un poco Rosa de Guadalupe, en plan quieres saber más pero es un poco que según lo lees dices 'sí, hombre'. O sea se vio una película de sobremesa mientras lo escribía y pasan todas las cosas posibles

secuestro, salud mental, el padre revive, tenía un hermano que murió, etc.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content 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

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