Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Court of the Vampire Queen by Katee Robert

39 reviews

omnicrafting's review

dark fast-paced

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

2.0

It’s pretty much 400 pages of badly written smut.  I had sunk cost fallacy and finished it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Sexism, and Pregnancy

hermo_ninny's review

dark emotional lighthearted fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, and Pregnancy

scwr623's review

lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, and Blood

Moderate: Pregnancy and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Child abuse, Confinement, Physical abuse, and Torture

dannothedino's review

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Sexual content, Blood, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment

Minor: Confinement, Drug use, Physical abuse, Torture, and Abortion

hopeless_ash's review

dark medium-paced

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

3.75

Pretty torn on my rating for this one tbh.

Pros:
I really enjoyed the relationship dynamics between all four main characters.
I always love a book with a poly relationship.
I like that none of the mmc’s ever really fought over the fmc.

Cons:
Waaaay too much smut for me.
So many major plot discoveries literally center around the fmc having an orgasm.
Past the first few times, every time the fmc thought about ‘her men’ it kinda made my eye twitch.

Would still say I overall enjoyed this book, but I picked it up cause I enjoy the Dark Olympus series by Katee Robert and this had so much more smut than I had bargained for lol.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Blood

Moderate: Child abuse and Vomit

jasbeingjas's review

adventurous emotional 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? No

5.0

Reading this book helped me cement why I haven’t enjoyed the few reverse harems I’ve tried reading. Katee Roberts writes polyamorous relationships so well! Usually there’s one person in the relationship that I really dislike but that wasn’t the case here because the characters weren’t caricatures of some trope. It also might have helped me that this was from a single POV rather than all four of the MCs. And besides the spice, the plot was fun. This was just a fun book to read! I was also super excited when I first saw Azazel! I wasn’t prepared for a little crossover but I loved it! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse

katerinovaaa's review

slow-paced

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

5.0

Seeing so many terrible reviews breaks my heart. I absolutely love this book. Is it all smut? YES. Is it well-written (smut)? YES. Is there plot?...yes. And I actually liked the plot a lot.

https://www.kateerobert.com/court-of-the-vampire-queen

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Sexual content, Blood, Murder, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Child abuse and Sexual assault

mickeygod's review

adventurous dark slow-paced

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

2.0

I mean, I know Katee’s books are far more p*rn than plot, but I would hope for at least a little plot.. you know. As treat. This book definitely reads as a Twilight fanfiction gone over complicated. There weren’t any real stakes (haha) and overall even the smut was.. not basic, but eh. But I did read it all, so it was at least not the worst book I ever read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Minor: Child abuse

lobinha_fototeta's review

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.5

Horrible book. No story, only sex. The main character has no self worth and honestly, I found it tiring to hear her telling herself that she didn’t amout to nothing. I just wanted a girlboss that conquered her men by being powerful and charming and cunning. But she was none of them and she just met them because of Malachi and formed a bond with her seraph powers. So basically she was annoying and didn’t do anything. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Kidnapping, and Pregnancy

leahkarge's review

2.0

thanks, i hated it. one star for the book overall, one star because i actually liked rylan for the most part. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail