Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Nuncanoche by Jay Kristoff

101 reviews

max_pink's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.0

One of the worst feelings you can get from reading a book is feeling sleazy for engaging with it. 

Another terrible feeling is sighing at lines that try way too hard to be epic every few pages.

And fast-forwarding past footnotes that do absolutely nothing but slow the pacing to a crawl.

And being annoyed at the fetishy treatment of teenagers, lesbians, and brown people.

Did I actually like anything about this? Uh. The world is kind of interesting? I liked Carlotta. Ashlinn was okay. 

The teachers sucked, though. 

Sigh. What a waste of hours. 

Solid narration by Holter Graham, however.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Mental illness, Sexual content, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Death of parent, and Cultural appropriation

pils8p's review

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Bullying, Racism, Death of parent, and Classism

savvyy01's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Death, Gore, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexism, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Alcohol

lauramcc7's review against another edition

This book tried to hard to be clever and ended up trite and unoriginal instead. It doesn’t  take its own worldbuilding seriously, so why should I? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Blood, and Murder

mlcutter's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-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

5.0

Solid 5 stars. When Mia Corvere loses her father in an uprising to overthrow the corrupt government, she decides to join the Our Mother of Blessed Murder order of assassins to become a Blade (the best of the best). This book is all about her training and decisions that she has to make to become strong and skilled enough to avenge her father's murder. The descriptions in this novel are amazing and thr characters are incredibly well-formed. It was recommended to me that I read this book as an aspiring fantasy writer and it did not disappoint. Word of warning, even though Mia is 16, this is NOT a YA novel! No surprise, there is death and its graphic, and there is also a love connection and it is somewhat graphic. But I still believe this is essential for anyone who wants to write fantasy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

spencerjb33's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Misogyny, and Sexual content

wilsk's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Sexual content, Torture, and Violence

Very graphic sexual content involving people under 18 years old.

redelysian's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.0

Its not a bad book. The lore is an extra bit of reading if you cared for it. But i found it fine to read the story without. The lore secrions can become a dristracrion from the main story.

Things only really pick up toward the end, and I unfortunately felt everything was just easily resolved in a few chapters l. The ending leads into the next book, but was also not enough for me to pursue it. Other characters were also used as plot pushers and the betrayal and tragedy in the stories didnt hit home really, emotional wise.

I also found the pace medium to slow.

But the universe is interesting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Blood

littki's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Drug use, Incest, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Vomit, Grief, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Classism

nathalie_books's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Drug use, Mental illness, Slavery, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol