Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Kings Rising by C.S. Pacat

112 reviews

lauwbinx's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Violence

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Slavery, Blood, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Rape, Torture, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Alcohol

nuala8's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail

green_amaryllis's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional hopeful fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Slavery, Blood, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail

argentum_princeps's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous dark emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Slavery

Moderate: Blood, Alcohol, War

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Rape, Gaslighting

cyancookie's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark funny 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Violence, Blood

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia

h3y_j4de's review against another edition

3.0

medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Can't believe this is my third time reading this i need to add more books to my library lol. Each time i come out of it wishing for so much more. the writing is underwhelming and the plot is... mediocre. its very much a case of "telling, not showing" whats happening - i find it frustrating that Damen does all the thinking for the reader, and yet is unable to piece together the last plot twist of the story despite real obvious clues. I can't help but wish that there was more fleshing out of the world and the characters and the main character's history- even a couple of flashbacks could have done wonders - everything is told point blank to the reader and it just made me not care about any of the other characters. Damen feels so hurt everytime he looks at Jokaste but i can't even begin to relate because we are barely even introduced to her, never shown her positive features that appealed to him in the first place. I found myself starting to skip paragraphs of pointless set up and easy execution, everything feels so easy and unearned for the main characters - there was never any real tension and if there was it was for a page, and then it was business as usual. The only thing I really found that I liked from this series was Laurent's dialogue and exchange with Damen because it could be sharp and witty and layered with subtext. There are way more issues i have with the series honestly but i'll just leave it at that. This is a callout to myself, find better books to read please!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Violence, Sexual harassment, War, Classism

aksvess's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicide, Violence

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Pedophilia, Grief, Death of parent

chele96's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Pedophilia, Sexual assault

rhi_'s review against another edition

3.0

adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Sexual content, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Blood, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault

Minor: Incest, Rape, Suicide, Pregnancy

cm02's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional mysterious sad tense slow-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, War

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Sexual content

Minor: Incest