Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Juniper & Thorn by Ava Reid

232 reviews

princegene95's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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: Murder, Body horror, Gore, Cannibalism, Body shaming, Vomit, and Blood

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Death, Animal cruelty, Eating disorder, Animal death, Sexual content, Child abuse, Death of parent, and Alcoholism

Minor: Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Medical content, and Medical trauma

kng_writes's review against another edition

2.5

Ehhhh, not for me. Just goes to show that pretty prose and a cool concept does not automatically mean a good writer. I truly did not give a singular fuck about any character in this book, not even Marlinchen. They were all so bland and unseasoned. Certain images were repetitive to the point of redundancy (Rose’s violet eyes, plum pits, plum juice). READ TRIGGERS FOR THIS—I dove in and was shocked at what was in here. And this is coming from someone who loved Andrew Joseph White’s body horror books!! At times, this book truly felt like trauma porn. Bad things happening to everybody, but what was the point other than to make everyone suffer?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Gore, Vomit, Animal death, Sexual content, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Antisemitism and Fatphobia

Minor: Xenophobia

readingwithkaitlyn's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Xenophobia, Addiction, Gaslighting, Body shaming, Misogyny, Child abuse, Death, Animal death, Violence, Alcohol, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Gore, Classism, Medical content, Sexual assault, Blood, Animal cruelty, Medical trauma, Sexual violence, Torture, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Eating disorder, Sexual harassment, Murder, and Grief

Moderate: Self harm, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Alcoholism, Gun violence, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Body horror, Bullying, and Hate crime

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic, Pedophilia, Colonisation, Domestic abuse, Incest, Racial slurs, Infertility, and Infidelity

Beastiality.

readingbymollie's review against another edition

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Xenophobia, Child abuse, Gore, Sexual assault, Vomit, Body horror, Self harm, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Murder and Sexual content

bohemianhermit04's review

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Vomit, Blood, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Violence, Body horror, Cannibalism, Toxic relationship, Animal death, and Eating disorder

Minor: Alcohol, Death of parent, Confinement, and Physical abuse

kateships's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

4.75

I don’t usually read books like this. I love folklore/fairytale based retellings which is why it interested me, and the authors writing drew me in. 

It is… gory, uncomfortable, dark, weird, and at no point did I know what was going to happen. It was oddly more sexual than I was expecting and I don’t think the story needed most of it, but that didn't ruin it for me. 

It’s FOR SURE not a book for everyone. Again, dark and VERY uncomfortable, not scary, but I was fascinated by the theme of hunger and the monsters. I ended up really really enjoying this way more than I expected. 

I am weirdly obsessed and will probably read everything by this author. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gore, Sexual assault, Blood, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Cannibalism, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse and Sexual content

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Death of parent, and Abortion

orangewitchling's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Rape, Body horror, Misogyny, Gore, Alcoholism, Cannibalism, Death, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Classism, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Sexual violence, Blood, Bullying, Violence, War, Child abuse, Confinement, Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

ava_jpg's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

mmmm cannibalism as a metaphor for love always eats (literally)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Blood, Body horror, Eating disorder, Gore, Vomit, Animal death, Medical content, Xenophobia, Cannibalism, Death, and Murder

moonlight_reader's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

This book is painfully heartbreaking and raw with its emotion and depiction of brutality and suffering. Being looked down upon and treated as an ornament rather than a human. The painful expression of trauma and grief and abuse and some self loath. despite all these she has beautifully woven an intricately passionate and tender story of love, loss, pain and memory with poetic prose and descriptive atmosphere, setting a wholly gothic masterpiece novel. a book i would reccomened to read once in your life for sure. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

3rdeyeopen's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Murder, Classism, Sexual content, Pedophilia, Medical trauma, Eating disorder, Death, Gore, Gaslighting, Blood, Torture, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, and Child abuse