Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Court of the Vampire Queen by Katee Robert

27 reviews

thaliareads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense 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

I'm a sucker for vampires, haha, and this book didn't disappoint. Also, as someone who read the deal with a demon series first, I loved seeing some crossovers. I love how much the guys want to protect and care for Mina in their own ways, and how she uses their knowledge to grow her own strength and abilities. 

When I realized there was a pregnancy trope I was a little concerned as I normally don't enjoy it, but I shouldn't have doubted that Katee would do it well. 

If you want a good enemies to lovers/reunited lovers trope and you love reverse harem then I'd absolutely give this book a read. Heads up that, as should be expected, it is very spicy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Blood, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Grief, Sexual content, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Violence and Torture

I'll admit I got behind on reviews and probably missed some content warnings.

literarykaylee's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Minor: Pregnancy, Child abuse, Death, Sexual content, and Blood

dragnfary's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Sexual content

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Vomit

annikenr's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

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

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

caseymac's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy and Sexual content

Moderate: Child abuse, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse

sleepylit's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny tense 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Sexual content, Murder, Pregnancy, and Violence

Moderate: Self harm, Kidnapping, Slavery, Child abuse, Confinement, Torture, Colonisation, Vomit, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Abortion and Death of parent

mondays's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-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: Blood, Sexual content, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Violence, Murder, and Cursing

Minor: Child abuse, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Murder

kailawalton's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

A vampire reverse harem book with tons of spice. Had a decent plot, is relatively fast paced, and like I said, lots of spice 👀🥵 if you’re into that I suggest reading it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Pregnancy and Child abuse

gretchenplz's review against another edition

mysterious fast-paced

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

2.5

Kinky smut, but the pregnancy aspect turned me off. I also think that the lines of consent are VERY blurred here, with vampire bites pretty much acting as drugs... 

The plot was… quite thin (which is fine; it’s erotica), but at the same time, I don’t want to have to deal with random world-building in my smut. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Pregnancy, Violence, Vomit, and Child abuse

ameliagm's review against another edition

dark medium-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

3.0

This book was like a big, embarrassing, fanfiction of every piece of vampire media that's ever been popular in mainstream culture. It was a spicy novel Frankenstein-ed to death with plot devices from other vampire books and movies. I can't say that I did not enjoy it in, it was certainly spicy and that is definitely one thing that I can say that this author writes well. The rest of it... the characters and plot specifically? Lazy. Everything that happened aside form the spice was conveniently wedged in to justify every fantastical thought the author dreamed up. I understand that it's a fantasy and there is a measure of suspended disbelief required but if an author is going to set a book like this in the real world, they should attempt to make it at least a little bit realistic. The main character was nothing special, typical erotica protagonist archetype. Questionable parentage, daughters of a prominent figure, unidentified powers, ends up being more important than everyone thought, etc. Also everything that went wrong she blamed on herself and that felt gross to me. Overall, it was.... fun and the writing was baseline fine. Nothing special and not life changing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Violence, Physical abuse, Death, Grief, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Abortion, Blood, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Murder, Sexual content, Vomit, Body horror, Child abuse, and Emotional abuse