Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

Lilacs and Leather by Thora Woods

18 reviews

booksnart2023's review

adventurous challenging emotional funny inspiring sad tense slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, and Sexual assault

Minor: Biphobia, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Car accident, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

cocoblood's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Emotional abuse

dezzella's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This has been on my TBR for a while and I'm glad I finally got around to it.  It has some darker elements, but I really enjoyed the openness and real conversations the characters had. Not to mention how the relationships develop. Fair warning, it ends on a cliffhanger.

Will I be jumping into the next book? Yes, definitely.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Biphobia, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Rape, Sexual assault, and Gaslighting

Minor: Stalking

colca's review against another edition

dark emotional relaxing 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Sexism, and Sexual content

missjacquelineo's review against another edition

fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.0

Too many storylines that made for weak character development. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Car accident

frantically's review against another edition

challenging emotional 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

5.0

Devoured this! This is the first Omegaverse novel I've read but as a former kid with no internet restrictions this, of course, isn't my first foray into the Omegaverse world.

The pack dynamics in this are so well developed and you can tell that the author really went beyond "yeah alphas and omegas fuck a lot" and put effort into making this a believable world with laws and customs surrounding A/B/O.

At first, I found Lydia to be a bit too much of a Mary Sue but she really grew on me throughout the book and I loved seeing her different relationships with all the pack members develop.

The angst is deep with this one and I'm sure we'll get a lot of drama in the future and I'm here for it! I wish more RH/poly novels were series instead of standalones, as we can get so much more individuality in their relationships that way. Personally, I'm just here for more Lex content 😉

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Car accident

Minor: Biphobia

rileyk's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

Graphic: Biphobia, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

cassie12_21's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

2.5

I don’t usually read human omega verse because they r always very rapey; this one was only rapey in past (not the current) relationship though. I’m going to keep reading purely ‘cuz I’m curious about the FF relation to develop. 

The BDSM relationships were surprisingly pretty well written, there was a full discussion about scenes and boundaries before anything happened, it was great. 

I hope Seth and Darren die a slow and painful death in a firey car crash. 

The cliffhanger ending was not the cliffhanger I was expecting, kinda weird, but okay Ig, wasn’t really necessary.

ends in a car crash, I swear to fucking god if Darren or Seth was driving that car and kidnaps her, I am not finishing this series, because I will have kms

🌶️🌶️.5/5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Stalking, and Gaslighting

Minor: Body shaming, Car accident, Murder, Outing, and Alcohol

amy_sutt's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful sad 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? It's complicated

4.0

Good queer rep (all the pack members are queer).  The Omega who is our FMC and a victim of abuse and comes out of a fundamentalist religious background and abuse is hiding from her family and ex. She is attracted to an alpha while working at a wedding for the florist shop she works for and the rest, as they say, is history.  The relationships are complex and I think the author does a great job of bringing those complexities to life as well as the complicated history on both sides.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Religious bigotry, and Gaslighting

Minor: Rape

Lydia's past involves many of these triggers.

her past of religious fanaticism results in her narcissistic mother and family gaslighting her abuse and her abusive, rapist ex-boyfriend threatening her when he finds out where she lives

There is also mention of a past relationship of the pack that is abusive emotionally and involves blackmail .

katkinslee's review against another edition

dark emotional lighthearted tense 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

4.0

This was a great book I can't wait to read the rest of the series. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Rape

Minor: Stalking