Reviews tagging 'Torture'

The Marionettes by Katie Wismer

5 reviews

alyshapowe11's review against another edition

dark

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture

ladybug12793's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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? Yes

3.25

Not much to say about this. Enjoyable and fast read. There isn’t much romance in this which I’m fine with since it’s the first book and I hate and insta love. The plot is definitely mysterious enough for me to keep going. There are a couple parts that it looked like weren’t proofread because the sentence structure didn’t make sense or they were grammatically incorrect. Other than that, I enjoyed myself.

0 - 0.25 🌶️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Blood, Murder, and Classism

Moderate: Child abuse, Cursing, and Sexual content

puffins57's review against another edition

hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.0

I picked this book up on a recommendation that it was a good fall read and I’m quite glad I did. It has vampires and witches and mysteries perfect for spooky season. The only issue I had with this book was that I felt it rushed through some conflicts extremely quickly. Immediately back-to-back, Valerie goes from a wendigo attack to being captured and tortured by Russians to killing Connor. Even the time she was captured went extremely quickly. While I’m sure the author was using this a was to plant seeds that are going to continue to grow in the upcoming books, I still wish she had chosen to focus a little more time on maybe two of these events than cramming all three in or just making the book a bit longer. That being said, I did enjoy this book and plan on immediately starting the next one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Self harm, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Classism

shark012's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Self harm, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Murder, and Classism

shelbyshoe's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious fast-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? No

4.5

I enjoyed the concept of witches working for vampires. The mystery elements were well done. I'm excited to see what happens next, especially after the cliffhanger! I enjoyed the characters and am excited to see how the romance progresses. I'm definitely a Valerie and Reid shipper. The writing was very well done.

I did find that this read younger than I expected. The academy felt like a high school to me. Her friends also read as teenagers at times. But over all this is very adult content.

If I think of anything else that I want to say, I'll add it here.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Self harm, and Blood

Moderate: Sexual content and Torture