Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

What Lies Behind the Veil, by Harper L. Woods

17 reviews

shan_lou's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious slow-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? It's complicated

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Misogyny, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

lousnewchapter's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gore, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Murder, Sexism, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, and Death of parent

cady_sass's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-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? It's complicated

2.5

Someone said this book is what you would get if you told an AI to write a fantasy romance, and that’s about all I can say. It’s certainly not very good, the dialogue is cringey and unnatural and there’s zero character development. There just… no depth. But I didn’t HATE it. And now I have to read the sequel *sigh* 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gaslighting, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Suicide attempt, Torture, Death of parent, Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Gore, Toxic relationship, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Murder, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Violence, and War

littlelucyc's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

• Loveable characters? No

2.0

I'm sorry but I can't enjoy a book with so much coercive control, dubious sexual consent and roughness justified by "love" when the FMC had never wished for love just freedom. Abuse can convince even the strongest of women that they want something/someone they actually don't. If there had been less of that I might have liked it... don't think I'll be reading any more of the series. I also didn't feel like there was any true plot in this book at all unless you count

Spoiler

Caelum's real identity as the plot

which I don't 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual harassment, Violence, Physical abuse, and Sexual content

lmuania's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

2.0

No tension in my view. Storyline meh. No surprises at all. 

But also: Caelum did not respect her boundaries. He was not better than

Spoiler

Jensen. (e.g. when he touched her butt and she was trying to get away but he woke up and roled on to her. Or when they were bathing the first time and he saw her scars. Or When she didn't wanted the people to see her pussy but he told her to show him "his funking cunt". Like literally all the time)

. We as the readers (more or less) knew that she was fine with what he did, but he couldn't know that because he never asked her. What i am trying to critisize is

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he said so often, that he wouldn't do anything without her permission but that is just not what he did. She said at some point that it is a fact that he respected her boumdaries.

and it really pisses me off that they are all thinking that way. It is objectively not true. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, and Injury/Injury detail

chaotic_hyperactive's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, and Violence

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Blood, Murder, Gore, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Classism, Grief, and Torture

jadehusdanhicks's review against another edition

challenging dark sad fast-paced

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

2.5

Not going to lie I struggled with this book.  The general fae story line was amazing and if it was that alone I’m sure I’d probably continue the series. 

Unfortunately it contains very consistent weird sexual content with a male MC calling the female one little one which didn’t sit right with me.  
Additionally it deals with grooming, suicide, murder and SA.  

Overall I was left disturbed especially by the graphic sex because of the phrasing and the uncomfortable nickname used.  I wouldn’t reccomend personally.  
And I’m not against spice in books.  But this was just horrid to read 

Also. Despite this book seemingly being set in an old dystopia landscape it kept bringing up modern clothing like leggings.  Which just seemed so seperate and disconnected from what I understood to be the setting

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Toxic relationship, Violence, War, Cursing, Gaslighting, Murder, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Bullying, Child abuse, Classism, Suicide, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual harassment, and Sexual content

katvou's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Death of parent, Gaslighting, Animal death, Blood, Child death, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Rape, Medical content, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Torture, Chronic illness, Grief, and Emotional abuse

c45p1n's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

k i’m making a list

• this book is literaly acotar’s doppelgänger (derogatory) (in regards to the characters)
• very predictable
• ends on a cliff hanger (is part of a trilogy)
• tropes: fae & faeries, fated mates/soulmates, gods, betrayal, one bed trope (sorta? more of a cling-to-each-other-for-body-heat type of one bed), death is a trope., magic, strangers to lovers, (idk how to describe it but) surviving together, i hate everyone but you (male mc), grumpy x grumpier, again (bc there is so much) character death, um yeah. can’t think of anything else, OH “who did this to you” trope ON BOTH SIDES, yeah that’s abt it
• OH: it felt like a video game in the sense that you had to complete a goal and talk to someone and then just be in stasis for the rest of the story, like just the middle 150 pages were nothingness but the FMC & MMC flirting and traveling with nothing actually happening in that chuck of time. 
• same with the beginning sorta. it was just 1) the veil shattered, 2) XXX & FMC ran away, 3) 50 pages later they meet the MMC, 4) battle against the enemies, 5) the middle where literally nothing plot-heavy happens til chapter 28 
• pretty smutty tbh, not amount-wise but kink-wise
• i’m honestly kinda stumped on what to rate this but i think i’m gonna split it up then find the average and do it from there but you can just use these rates for generality
• plot: 4/10; characters: 7.5/10; smut: 7/10; monologue: 5/10, dialogue: 7/10; world-building: 8/10; fae history explanation: 8/10 (there was a glossary), character likeability: 8/10
• using my 200 dollar calculator, the mean is ≈ 7 so that’s like a 3.25 in my mind
• Spoiler

  literally everyone died except the main character and love interest💀
• idk why but kinda reminded me of the hunger games
• read TWs before reading the book fs !!!!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Blood, Death, Violence, Sexual content, and Cursing

Moderate: Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Child abuse, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, War, Sexual assault, and Medical content

Minor: Death of parent and Religious bigotry

cassie12_21's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Murder, Death, Abandonment, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Blood, Child abuse, Classism, Gore, Grief, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Animal death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship