Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

The Cursed by Harper L. Woods

22 reviews

isabelleroyall's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Pregnancy

Minor: Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Death of parent

mutantfoodie's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

This book was amazing!!! I'm not sure if this will be the end to the completed duology because there is room in the story for additional books. The main story is wrapped up well and I do not feel a loss not having the other elements completely wrapped up. This book left me feeling tense in the beginning not sure what to feel of the MMC. I love how his character grew and I loved how the FMC worked through her challenges. This book is a little more explicit with the sex. I give it 3.5 peppers. Not crazy spicy but it's nice spice. I felt the heat! I will be reading this duology again and I will devour any additional books if they happen to be created for this series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Bullying, Death, Blood, and Murder

vixairy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Toxic friendship

Minor: Sexual assault

literarianrose's review against another edition

4.25

Be warned! 
This duology WILL have companion books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Violence

i_bee_reading's review against another edition

adventurous dark slow-paced

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

2.0

Giving this two stars is hard.
But, like what the heck actually happened?

I couldn't actually tell you.
It also started with Vampires and witches but now has morphed to biblical angels and demons. I couldn't keep up and by the end I was way lost.

I loved the ending epilogue and yes, that means I will probably read the next, but this one was just all over the place for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Blood

asims723's review against another edition

dark 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? Yes

2.0

This is the completion of the duology, the sequel to The Coven. This book was not as interesting as the first for me. The development of relationships was very poor on all levels. The friendships especially seemed unearned for people who claim not to trust anyone. And don't get me started on Ash hugging Gray because they had a talk while Willow was getting dressed after the last time he saw them in The Coven Gray was stabbing her and the time before that he was threatening his life after chasing them. Like no, that's not necessary. The friendship that forms with Leviathan is equally unbelievable. While I think this series was planned out well, the execution as a whole was underdeveloped.

The personification of the demons also made them just seem normal dudes aside from being very strong and big. I did not like this installment as much as the first book, which had that explosive ending that was so interesting to read. 

This book had second book in a trilogy energy, not final installment of a duology.

Thanks to NetGalley and Tor Publishing for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, and Murder

Minor: Pregnancy

direguard's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

unboundbooklover's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense 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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Death, Gore, Rape, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Toxic relationship, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

courtstrauch13's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense 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

PLEASE CHECK TRIGGER WARNINGS BEFORE READING…

This book wasn’t as good as the first book, but I enjoyed it. I still love how toxic the characters are, not sure what that says about me…. I will say the concept for these two books are really cool, witches and demons. I still have a bit of an issue with the world building, if I thought about it enough I might find something off. This book did go into greater detail regarding the magic system than the first book, and a bit more into the history, however I’m still not satisfied with what we got. 

This book is spicer than the first, would give this one 4/5 🌶️.  This book is a bit kinker than the first, so be prepared for that. 

Overall not bad. I’m not sure if the author is intending to extend the book series, or do a spin off.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Murder, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Body horror, Blood, Religious bigotry, Toxic friendship, and War

shign13's review against another edition

medium-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

2.0

It just wasn't great unfortunately. I really enjoyed the first, there was plenty of spice yeah but also a developing plot with twists and turns that were very enjoyable. This book however seemed to be very disjointed, repetitive and the plot was lost to spice over and over. There wasn't a lot of depth to any relationships and it was just a bit lacking. However, I am intrigued by the epilogue and hopeful for the next installment!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Sexual violence