Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

111 reviews

becca_w_'s review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious tense fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Car accident and Alcohol

Minor: Bullying, Child death, Emotional abuse, Racism, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Stalking, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, and Abandonment

tsked_off's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Emotional abuse and Physical abuse

immaculori's review against another edition

funny mysterious tense 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? N/A

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Gun violence

cortanasreadingnook's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious 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

4.0

 Perfect for fans of The Naturals, Truly Devious, and A Study in Charlotte! 

Jennifer Lynn-Barnes truly knows how to write a story! The narrative was exhilarating and full of puzzles, hideaways, and smart, hot guys (grayson mf davenport supremacy). I loved this author’s more underrated series The Naturals a few months ago and this was just as fun! I could not seriously put this down, and the characters are effortlessly loveable! Avery is without a doubt now one of my favorite fmcs, and the boys are just as perfect with their equally charismatic personalities. I had very high expectations for this series because her writing doesn’t disappoint and suffice to say they were met. I can’t comprehend the fact that so much secret was packed into one book, but it was written really well. 

TEAM GRAYSON DAVENPORT HAWTHORNE BTW I REALLY JUST HAVE A TYPE 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Toxic relationship, and Death of parent

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

nimzipow_reads's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

I absolutely devoured this book! I’d recommend this book to fans of the movie Knives Out.

I found this book to be well-paced and meticulously thought out, it kept me gripped right until the end. My order for the second and third books can’t be delivered fast enough.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Emotional abuse

Minor: Death of parent

spill_the_tea's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny informative mysterious reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol

Minor: Car accident and Death of parent

siglerbooknook's review against another edition

adventurous challenging lighthearted mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

4.5

I truly enjoyed this book. The plot was good, not overly complicated, and moved at a nice pace. The characters didn't grow or change much in the story, but are very loveable from the start. 

The dialog was top tier. I truly enjoyed the quippy back and forths throughout the story.

The mystery aspect is entertaining, but you the reader are definitely just along for the ride. You aren't given enough pieces to solve it in advance.

The ending is a cliffhanger, so I'm glad I already have book 2. It is a great ending that leaves me wanting to dive into the next book. All the little puzzles are tied up nicely by the final pages and a new one has just begun. 

I can't wait to see what the next book brings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Terminal illness, Medical content, Death of parent, and Classism

pich's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious tense fast-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

2.75

(2.75 leaning towards 3 stars)
i’ll still read the rest of the series, but i just felt like this book was quite lackluster. I definitely would’ve liked more detail with each of the brothers, and while I understand that this is the first book, a little more dimension to them wouldn’t hurt. The riddles and puzzles weren’t crazy—as I thought they would be—but this was an easy read so I didn’t worry about those too much.

the romance between Avery and the boys grew kind of uninteresting after a hot second, especially after it was revealed they both loved Emily. I think had romance been introduced in the second book, I would be rooting for one of the other more—right now, I really don’t have a preference.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Gun violence

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, and Death of parent

Minor: Alcohol

itsmemiana's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective 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

5.0

I loved this. 

I feel like I knew what was going to happen and then it wouldn't be that. and there were things that I was like "I feel like this person or thing is going to be important" and then I would be like "oh nvm, maybe it's not" AND THEN IT WOULD BE. and there were parts where I couldn't even put the book down because it got so interesting. I think this was a really good book.

I'm also low-key in love with Grayson and Jameson (and pretty much all the Hawthorne brothers but specially Grayson hehe).

I loved Avery although I do think she wasn't that good of a friend (specially to Max) through a lot of the book but I have a feeling she's gonna get better.

and I also think the grandfather of the boys was a lil creepy and weird lmao but that didn't affect my experience with this book at all. 

ALSO THAT ENDING?????

can't wait to read the rest of the series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Car accident, and Classism

dev921's review against another edition

adventurous 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? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail