Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Stars Above by Marissa Meyer

1 review

noellegrace8's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced

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

4.0

This is basically like seamless fanfiction because it's done by the author and therefore perfectly congruent with her series. Some stories are better than others, I would venture to say, and The Little Android is a bit of an odd one that breaks away from the rest of them. I was only mildly disappointed because 1, I was hoping more of it would be focused on our main characters rather than random backstory characters, and 2, I thought for certain that the wedding teased in Marissa Meyer's interview was going to be between Winter & Jacin. I wouldn't say I was super disappointed, just surprised, and it ended up making sense that she chose that couple. The ending was very sweet, and I loved the story that showed us Kai's perspective of meeting Cinder.

I feel like I've ranked Rebecca Soler's performances so many times at this point that it's getting redundant, but I can only give her a 4/5 this time around unfortunately, due to whoever produced this audiobook. She was obviously sick or recovering from respiratory illness! I don't understand why they would force her to record before her voice was fully back to its normal state. It made the performance grating, as she sounds clearly stuffed up.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Ableism, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Terminal illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Cursing, Gun violence, Infidelity, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Colonisation, War, Classism, and Deportation

The thematic elements of this entire series would stand to warn about topics revolving around one group of people being willing to rule over another in personal relationships and culturally. This book in particular mentions those concepts but doesn't go into details. The story I would give the biggest trigger warning about would be Winter & Jacin's, "The Princess and the Guard." This is where most the sexual assauly and suicide warnings come into play.