Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Captive Prince by C.S. Pacat

288 reviews

lorcxi's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Violence

alexandrabelze's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-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? Yes

3.75

read this bc my coworker lent me the books. i liked it! super excited for the second one! living for the slow burn so far. i’m hoping for some dual pov action in the next one bc i love laurent’s character and i think his pov could be fun and interesting

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Drug use, and Blood

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Pedophilia, Alcohol, and War

ahoyitsjoy's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

2.5

This reminded me of reading fanfic back in the real wild west days, in both the good and the bad ways. This is a real "dead dove do not eat" so look up the cws for sure. If you didn't understand that sentence then you should not read this book probably!

Aside from the often gratuitously horrific SA happening in this book, the political intrigue is really quite well done. The reader has enough info to generally figure things out ahead of the protagonist if they're paying attention. I'm hoping the next book has the shock value dialed back several notches and more of the good stuff, because I think there's potential here.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Trafficking, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: War

reguri's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

The first book is definitely weakest of the series, but I'm very glad I still picked up the next book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Slavery

Moderate: War

vic_to_ria's review against another edition

Read the context warnings it’s not made for everyone so keep that in mind. 
It’s not a bad book- it’s set up really nice. 
Plot is interesting and the characters have motivation and that is what drives the story more than anything. For that reason I will be reading the rest hopefully they are not all this explicit and graphically vulgar. 
I’m not gonna rate (so that my singular opinion doesn’t bring this book down cause again it is good it’s just preferences) or add the LGBTQ+ tag only because it is almost all non-con. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Slavery

briannafenty's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Injury/Injury detail

xenomoose's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? Yes

3.25

Prose is mediocre but it’s clear the author has a very focused idea of who these characters are and it results in them having very complex internal worlds that was fun to read.  The world building was titillating if you’re into the conceit of “complicated sex slavery”. I was surprised at how well-conceived and considered the political drama was! I was as invested in the conflict between Vere and Akielos as much as I was between Damen and Laurent. It was refreshing to read a book tagged “enemies to lovers” where instead of the main duo not really being enemies, they don’t really become lovers. 
Anyway I devoured this book in less than six hours and had to hold myself back from starting the next one immediately, because it was four AM. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Slavery

ssaradve's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Blood and War

inkynavi's review against another edition

3.75

I didn't expect to like this book as much as I did! Lots of political intrigue and plot to keep you engaged. The sexual aspects alluded to weren't anything worse than the Game of Thrones show, so it was easy for me to look past it. But I can see why some people wouldn't be able to stomach it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Slavery

Moderate: Physical abuse and Violence

Minor: Pedophilia

ccpprrjj's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Sexual assault