Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Cruel Seduction by Katee Robert

20 reviews

taryn_g's review

dark 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, and Medical content

Minor: Death of parent

smartcookiesca's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Violence, and Murder

Minor: Death of parent

literarymary95'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

3.25

This wasn't my favorite of the series, but it was slightly better than Wicked Beauty.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Child abuse, Gun violence, and Murder

Minor: Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, and Death of parent

alli_the_bookaholic13's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Gun violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

_meganrose's review against another edition

challenging 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

3.0

Solid 3 star read. Not my favorite of the Dark Olympus series. Four different POV’s was a bit much and unnecessary in my opinion.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child abuse and Death of parent

notsobinaryart's review against another edition

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Alcohol

Moderate: Gun violence, Violence, Blood, and Medical content

Minor: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, and Death of parent

batchy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Blood

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Death of parent

annahamburger's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny mysterious reflective 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Gun violence, Sexual content, Violence, Medical content, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Blood, Murder, Alcohol, and Classism

Minor: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Xenophobia, Stalking, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, and War

apirlroge's review against another edition

dark tense fast-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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Gun violence and Violence

Minor: Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Blood, and Death of parent

nolalee's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

Cruel Seduction follows the complicated power struggle that concluded in Radiant Sin. Aphrodite, formerly Eris, marries the new murderous Hephaestus in a bid to keep him on a leash in Olympus. An absolute poly-pocalypse between Aphrodite, Hephaestus and others ensues as Olympus falls into unrest.
This addition to the Dark Olympus series left so much to be desired. The chemistry that Katee Robert can make so effortless felt clunky and confusing. The timing was rushed, the relationships didn't have time to fill out and at 3/4's of the way through I could not believe it was almost time to close the book.
Eris/Aphrodite is such a complicated and interesting character and I wish we would have spent more time with her and the mess Katee Robert's promised.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Death of parent