Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Bought by Lauren Landish, Willow Winters

21 reviews

coralcrab77's review against another edition

dark emotional fast-paced

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

2.5

It's....meh. 
I read the last book of this series first (Madam Lynn's story) and I really liked it. This one just wasn't it. 
Some of my issues with it: the therapist sucked (shouldn't have offered her tissues, didn't actually work w/ Dahlia to solve her problems and how many times can you ask "how did that make you feel??)
the bdsm wasn't that great nor was it the focus. it was spicy and it was hot, but I wanted more of a fleshed out D/s relationship. 
and I guess the "growth" that the couple went through wasn't very fleshed out either. nothing seemed solved, and all Lucian wanted to do was to fix it for her? idk, it wasn't great, wasn't awful. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Murder

bookibutt's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Death, and Rape

jadorelecafe's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Infidelity, Child abuse, Rape, Pedophilia, and Sexual assault

kaetheluise_nckl's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

1.5

IDK. This isn’t any better than 50 Shades. Also these people were just talking in circles.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Grief

Minor: Gun violence, Alcohol, Violence, and Death

death:

rapist is killed by hitman/ gunshot wound

sexual content: contracted BDSM relationship, unprotected sex, voyeurism, spanking (belt, hand, crop), fellatio, bondage (rope, cloth), collaring, orgasm denial/edging, hard kinks

rape fantasy/force play

tayrod4594's review against another edition

emotional fast-paced

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

3.0

It's relatively well-written, but the plot is bare bones and the characters are two-dimensional. Giving them both a past is not actual characterization, and their relationship develops in about 2 pages. To each their own, but I prefer a lot more plot with my smut.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual violence, Gun violence, Rape, Death, Cursing, Murder, and Physical abuse

hayzey's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Mental illness

Moderate: Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Rape, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual assault, and Violence

Minor: Rape, Cursing, Violence, Torture, Sexual content, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Gaslighting, Murder, Sexual assault, Mental illness, Child abuse, Alcohol, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, and Domestic abuse

the10thingsiloveaboutbooks's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

2.0

This had the bones to be an interesting read. However, the way that issues such as rape were handled just weren’t it for me. Their relationship didn’t feel realistic and I’m not in a rush to continue the series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual assault, and Domestic abuse

vreyna20_2004's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

3.0

I’m honestly disappointed in the story as there’s no plot really. I thought Dahlia would speak about her trauma and Lucian would help her move on (while fucking her) but it didn’t happen. Instead Lucian hired someone to stalk Dahlia and that’s how he finds out about her uncle raping her and how no one believed her so he tries to help her. The story should’ve expanded that and talk more about how Lucian felt guilt for feeling like he isn’t the one to help Dahlia. To me, the story seems so fast paced and it would slow down out of nowhere that I had to sometime go back to see if I somehow skipped pages. 

As for the sex scenes themselves, it was a let down. They were good but for the story to be about bdsm you would think it would lean more into that besides spanking. But that’s all they do. Fucking and spanking that’s all. Hopefully by the next book it would be actual bdsm and not just ass spanking and I get it, Dahlia has no experience and is trying to find her limits but I would’ve loved to see them testing those limits.

The story had potential it was a fun read but I would’ve loved if they expanded more on the characters and their trauma and their feelings for each other before it ended.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Death

Minor: Abandonment

eriinmaureenn's review against another edition

dark emotional fast-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

 this was good in terms of spice, but I felt like the story wasn't finished? I was flying through the book but the characters weren't developing at the same rate. There were so many other ways that this storyline could have been executed and it would've just been better. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Minor: Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, and Incest

kar2005's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Physical abuse