Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

King of Immortal Tithe by Ben Alderson

13 reviews

notpresent22's review against another edition

dark 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

4.0

I really enjoyed this book. Even more than the previous instalment in the series and was fascinated to have the original plot be so relevant to the story of this book. 

All I have to say is pages 270-272 I may have read multiple times already 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Fire/Fire injury, Terminal illness, Grief, Emotional abuse, Child death, Murder, Abandonment, Death, Confinement, and Death of parent

Minor: Sexual assault

Sexual assault is implied

fanboyriot's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny 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

Read For:

🖤 Dark Romance

💘 Forced Proximity

😘 Enemies to Lovers

🧚‍♂️ Fantasy (Fae and Vampires)

🥀 Hades and Persephone Vibes

Absolutely such a cute book.  I love the characters, the plot, and the world building.  It was all so good.

Usually I struggled to read high fantasy but this was such an easy and entertaining read I read this in two days.  It was such an enjoyable book.

Grumpy touch starved fae that kills everything he touches (literally) meets a dying human who is able to get away with touching death himself.  Faenir was such a lovely character, Arlo was his perfect match for sure.  Their dynamic was written so perfectly.

Release Date: 26, March 2024

POV: Switching, First Person

Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

Rep: LGBTQIA+ Characters

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Blood, Cursing, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Terminal illness, and Violence

Moderate: Chronic illness and Murder

Minor: Child abuse, Grief, and Death of parent

20sidedbi's review

dark emotional mysterious slow-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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Child abuse, Blood, Chronic illness, Death, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual content, Terminal illness, and Violence

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Alcohol, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

epsyphus's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

2.0

I was rather disappointed with this and while there were aspects of that that I felt weren't really the book's fault, I was still disappointed. It didn't feel like it was a Hades and Persephone retelling (or at least it wasn't a very good one) and it just overall wasn't what I expected. It was a lot more heavy on the romance (if you could call it that) and the smut, which is fine but just not my cup of tea. Those thing by themselves I think could be forgiven, but I thought it was rather poorly written, I didn't buy the romance, and the fantasy elements felt overcomplicated and underexplained. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

jaydarjoker's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.75

don’t use spit as your only lube, even if you’re fictional creatures. practice safe sex kids.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Terminal illness

Moderate: Death of parent, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

sammysammsam's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Terminal illness

FYI, my tags i marked for this story err on the side of assuming the reader is sensitive to

graphic description of real time dead and decaying human bodies, callus and emotionally abusive lovers (not our main pair), and to descriptions of what is considered a terminal illness with no real cure.

bergha1998's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad 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

3.5

Arlo doesn’t want his sister to be taken in the Choosing by the elves. He’s also fighting off a sickness using Vampire Blood. Elf prince Faenir has a much different problem & wishes not to choose a human. 

MLM, Enemies to Lovers, Hades & Persephone Retelling, 3 🔥

“Family does not constitute love as I am sure you have been led to believe. You cannot choose your family; love is earned not granted just because of shared blood.”

“I will carve out an eternity just for you to be with me.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Abandonment, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Murder, Sexual content, Death, Death of parent, and Cursing

ekmoore11's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

kayceeisbookish's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Blood, Sexual content, and Death

Moderate: Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Death of parent

zazzyb's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-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

3.0

This is a hard book to review for me, I really do enjoy the premise of the Darkmourn universe and I'm always going to try and read M/M because LGBT books are something I am diving more into.
However I put this book down so many times and I was really looking forward to it, I had preordered it and everything.
The universe was very interesting, the plot interesting but I just couldn't vibe with Arlo as a main character, he was 80% well written but missing something I can't put my finger on. Probably the teenage angst that was turned up to 11
Again I found with the end of the book the plot was tidied up but the ending was too similar to The first book Lord of eternal night and I predicted the end only a few chapters in. (view spoiler)
I certainly will look at getting the next darkmourn book but I hope the author improves on both the writing style and the premise.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Murder