Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Bad Guy by Ruby Dixon

12 reviews

dayoldtea's review against another edition

adventurous 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Slavery, Violence, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Death, Rape, Blood, and Murder

Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Kidnapping

lucy3000's review

dark emotional sad 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Slavery, and Violence

Moderate: Torture and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Rape and Sexual assault

drealovesbooks's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Slavery, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Gore and Rape

shinyfox's review

adventurous dark emotional tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Sexual content, Slavery, and Violence

Moderate: Death, Gore, Rape, and Blood

Minor: Kidnapping and Pregnancy

abibea's review

emotional hopeful 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Slavery, Violence, and Trafficking

Moderate: Gore, Rape, and Blood

katiekeske's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

This is a dark, monster romance between a genetically modified alien and a human slave. The male love interest, Crulden the Ruiner, is essentially a prisoner whose owner plans to use him as a gladiator. Crulden has no memory of who he is or his past. The same owner has enslaved a human woman to be the janitor of the prison block Crulden is kept in. 

If you have triggers for r@pe, you may be wary of reading this. Read the content warnings at the beginning of the book. Basically, the love interest in this never harms Mina. Her owner has no interest in her sexually either. The main triggering event I would say is

in a video that Mina watches of past Crulden the Ruiner r@ping and killing in the arena during a gladiator match. There is a plot twist that occurs later to help explain things.

I don't normally read dark romances, but this one was well done. The triggering event was pretty upsetting, and I wasn't sure how Mina and Crulden could get through it, but there is a plot twist that helps. 

I liked Mina. She's a strong character that knows what she wants and is clever. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Sexual content, Slavery, Violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Classism

The rape and sexual violence occurs in a video that the heroine watches.

fritopie's review

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious tense 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery

Moderate: Torture

Minor: Rape

wilybooklover's review

adventurous dark emotional slow-paced

3.0

This was weird, but overall I liked it. The main characters were very cute together. But I think I would have liked it more if they had some sort of agency in their lives before the very end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Slavery, and Violence

Moderate: Death, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Rape and Sexual violence

mothercoconuts's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

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

5.0

I have no reasonable reason for loving this as much as I do but my god if I can’t give this anything less than 5/5!!! 
I don’t read romance, but something about this hooked me from the start and I was swooning like all the bookish girls do over sappy romances and smutty books! First time that happened to me, so it definitely has something! 
I loveddddd Mina and Crulden (especially him omg 🥺) and was rooting for them so hard. There was no incredibly frustrating periods of them hating each other bc one found out something that made them mad (my most hated trope) but we’re just so cute together!! 
I also loved the world and would like to read more about it! Really liked the premise, setting, and plot a lot. 
LOVE LOVE LOVE. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Physical abuse, Sexual content, and Slavery

Moderate: Rape, Violence, and Murder

martamae77's review

dark emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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, Slavery, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape