Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Au bord de la tombe by Jeaniene Frost

12 reviews

mydayscount's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-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? Yes

4.75

First in a series 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Murder

Moderate: Cursing, Kidnapping, Rape, Death, and Sexual content

Minor: Vomit

rbradley923's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Emotional abuse, and Murder

Moderate: Grief, Rape, Gun violence, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Trafficking and Car accident

cloodnook's review against another edition

The MC Couple dynamic was just tedious and very very sexist.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism, Murder, Rape, Body horror, and Misogyny

vixenreader's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

There are a few toxic troupes involving relationships and jealous, but it still an entertaining read with a better love story than “Twilight.” 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Blood, Car accident, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, Misogyny, Murder, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Violence, Medical trauma, Medical content, Cursing, Kidnapping, Sexual violence, and Sexism

Moderate: Alcohol, Toxic friendship, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Death of parent, Racism, Grief, and Police brutality

Minor: Drug use

There is also political corruption, decomposition of the body, drugging drinks in an attempt to commit assault, and death of both grandparents.

nieva098's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Cursing, Gun violence, Gore, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Trafficking, Violence, Blood, Body horror, and Death

leazzz's review against another edition

dark funny medium-paced

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

2.5

Pro's: I liked the use of vampire lore, not my favourite iteration but solid
Con's: From page one it felt like rough Spike and Buffy fanfic. 
The plot and the characters all felt underdeveloped
The romance didn't build believably, and the dialogue was painful at times, especially  the awful British slang from Bones
Catherine irritated me so much with her hypocritical slut shaming, and the relationship with her mother was just infuriating

The plot had potential, but I really don't like the incorporation of the government and working for the FBI, with so much weird American frothing for the military  thrown in. Then the choice to leave Bones to protect him, it felt like the first 75% of the book was going in one direction, then a 180.

 
I won't be continuing, disappointing since I wanted to like this

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Trafficking, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexism

Minor: Cultural appropriation

mswarning's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

2.25

Not sure when I bought this book, probably 2009 at a sci-fi writing convention. I don't recall if I ever read it. Not sure what I would've rated it back then during my urban fantasy heyday.

Obviously based on Buffy and Spike. Sex was just ok. Story was predictable. Some of the banter was entertaining.

Did not finish during Shiftathon. I keep picking books for readathons that I'm not very excited to read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Sexual content, Gore, and Murder

Moderate: Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Trafficking, and Gun violence

Minor: Pregnancy and Rape

queenjuly's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny lighthearted fast-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

5.0

I just love this book. Have ever since I read it for the first time with sixteen and yeah, maybe it didn't age that well (especially the later books), but I'll always love it, because for me it's the blueprint for how paranormal romance should be written.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Kidnapping

Minor: Rape

kloughlin's review against another edition

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Rape

julie_kcwbc's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

3.0

I found Cat's character development really disjointed. She would act really immature in one scene then very mature in the next. I'm invested and curious enough to keep reading the next in the series. There are a lot of plot threads in this book that I want to see where they go. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Sexual assault

Moderate: Toxic relationship