Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Prince of the Sorrows by Kellen Graves

15 reviews

lindsaythelibrarian's review

dark emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Torture, and Slavery

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Violence, Alcohol, Cursing, Grief, Slavery, and Toxic relationship

btrz7's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Death, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, and Slavery

Minor: Bullying and Alcohol

sirvex27's review against another edition

I love the world building and the queer-normative world, and the writing style is beautiful. However, the power dynamic between the slave and prince is icky. Even worse, the prince is physically abusive and manipulative from the start. This isn't a story I can stomach continuing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship and Physical abuse

lotte5322's review

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Blood, Emotional abuse, Violence, Physical abuse, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

tieflingreads's review

dark emotional tense

• 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Death, Blood, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Sexual harassment

Minor: Drug use

lim's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Torture, Bullying, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Sexual content and Sexual harassment

stashie's review

adventurous emotional mysterious 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

3.25

I have complicated feelings about this one as the characters make and also break the book. The devotion of our main character towards the prince was pretty annoying and stupid in the first half of the book, then the prince does a 180 in personality and he's more likeable so it makes sense that y'know, they can have an actual relationship. After that it's pretty cool.
The writing of this book was bit hard to get through as it felt like I'm reading someone's dream state, and the paragraphing was....not great at all. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Bullying, Blood, Toxic relationship, Gore, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Kidnapping, Death, Hate crime, and Cursing

maregred's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny lighthearted mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Confinement, Death, Sexual content, Alcohol, and Bullying

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Toxic relationship

jjjreads's review

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Bullying, Classism, Confinement, Death, Child death, Deportation, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Slavery, Stalking, Trafficking, Violence, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, and Sexual content

Moderate: Blood, Cursing, Gore, Sexual harassment, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Abandonment, Excrement, and Grief

nim22_'s review

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Murder

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Stalking