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rakizaka's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Sexual content, and Violence
vivivi's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
This one pulls at the heartstrings, is full of history, misunderstandings, betrayals, and hurt feelings. But it's also interspersed with the characters' strong loving feelings for each other, which balances it out, making the hurt feelings bearable for me. It is not always the case for me with Nalini Singh (one of the Rock Kiss books comes to mind), but in this one, it's sweet, sweet torture. I love that we see the characters from the other books! They're very much still a part of the story.
We also learn more about the Forgotten, which were only briefly mentioned in the previous book. One thing that I enjoy in this series is that everything is connected somehow, and will come up later if mentioned earlier. It's a great way to keep me reading the next book.
Also, as an aside since Storygraph has a section that asks if the characters are diverse... yes, they are, but you'd never know by the cover, which are almost always of white people. The actual characters are definitely not always white.... So it's verrrrry annoying when the covers don't reflect the actual characters' skin. Clay is supposed to be a "dark" man, by Tali's own description. He has very dark skin...the covers for this book though... Nope. Not even close.
Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Abandonment
Moderate: Child death, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Torture
Minor: Death of parent
givemaribooks's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.0
And here comes why I struggled with this book. I hated Clay whenever was around Talin. He was fine on his own, but he was an overbearing judgmental asshole to Talin. She owed him nothing. She was a traumatized 12 year old when they last saw each other. She didn’t owe him fidelity, and judging her for sleeping around was unforgivable to me. At one point, she even feels impure because of her past, including because of the abuse, and that was so problematic to me. It’s one thing for her to have those feelings and to have reacted to the abuse by becoming promiscuous, but he doesn’t get to judge that. As I said, she didn’t own him fidelity and he didn’t own her body. And apart from the slut-shamming (and a bit of victim-blaming), I don’t think the puritanical views about sex that keep appearing in these books make any sense in this setting. One on hand we are told that younger shifters are very sexual and need sex, but then they also expect their mates to magically be virgins?! Make it make sense! This is also supposed to be in the future and they still are worried about virginity?! Even the psy not having sex doesn’t make sense. It’s a normal bodily function. It would’ve made more sense for them to be super causal about sex and treat it the same as exercise the way they do yoga.
I was also annoyed with the story line about Talin’s missing time. It didn’t really add to the story for her to be further violated this way. As in the previous book, the author used sexual trauma as a plot device. It felt unnecessary since she was already dealing with trauma and she could just had missing time without it being about sex.
The author also uses outdated terms, especially when it came to ableist language.
I listened to the audiobook and the narrator is great.
CW: murder, child sexual abuse (recounted), medical issues, trauma from neglect and abuse
Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual violence, and Murder
can_i_read's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Death and Gore
Minor: Child abuse and Sexual assault
solacelight's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Child death, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, and Grief
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Alcohol
jkatiemarks's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
3.0
- cishet m/w, she’s white and he’s biracial (Black mother), human x leopard changeling, friends to “i made you think i died” to fated mates
- this was meh? can’t quite pinpoint why?
- CW: she’s a CSA survivor
Moderate: Child abuse
samixox's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual content, and Sexual violence
severelyhopefulcloud's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Body horror, Sexual content, and Violence
Moderate: Child abuse and Child death
judythedreamer's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, and Abandonment
Moderate: Child death, Pedophilia, Self harm, and Medical trauma
just_one_more_paige's review
- 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? It's complicated
3.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Torture