Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

A Curse for True Love by Stephanie Garber

24 reviews

taylorjayne's review

0.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Stalking, Blood, Death, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Child death, Kidnapping, Murder, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, and Confinement

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Mental illness, Stalking, Body horror, Child death, Sexual harassment, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Gore, Blood, Confinement, Sexual assault, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

kemikemi's review

adventurous dark mysterious 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

3.75

i liked this one much better than the first two, and i think it is the best book in the series; i dont know if thats partly because i read this one as an ebook instead of listening to an audiobook like i did the first two, but it felt like there was a definite difference in writing. 

this book is split into three different pov’s, so we aren’t just stuck in evangeline’s grating mind, and in this book i didn’t notice the overly repetitive dragging on narration that bothered me so much during the first two books. and although i was still screaming at evangeline throughout, this book was to me personally leaps and bounds better for her relationship chemistry with jacks than the other two…nothing like some high stakes outright PINING LONGING PAINFUL YEARNING and getting into the mind of the love interest to get you invested in some fantasy lovers. 

idk if i would ever reread the series because there wasn’t enough gratifying fluff epilogue established relationship scenes for me to put myself thruough it all again; i wish we’dve gotten a bit more after everything i suffered, but the couple is cute and it did get a bit swoony in this book i won’t lie so by the end i did like them as a couple they kinda won me over. 

also i face cast jacks as ricky from zb1 and you can’t change my mind! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping

Moderate: Death

applegal's review

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious tense 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

Way too much Apollo and not nearly enough Jacks. Don’t get me wrong, the ending was *chefs kiss* but the plot falls a little flat when 80% is spent on the same dilemma, 20% what we actually want to see. The eve/jacks dynamic really fueled this series so having it missing for the majority of the book was a let down 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Violence, Murder, Gaslighting, and Kidnapping

jlyles_177's review

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Torture, Dementia, Murder, Confinement, Kidnapping, Blood, and Death

katvou's review

adventurous dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Death

Moderate: Alcohol, Blood, Violence, and Gaslighting

Minor: Kidnapping, Child death, Gore, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Body horror, Physical abuse, Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, and Toxic friendship

gale_bruckner's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious fast-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

5.0

I adored every second of this story.  It's a fairy tale for anyone who has stopped believing in fairy tales.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Violence, and Kidnapping

emilia_thereader's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful lighthearted fast-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: Blood, Toxic relationship, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Death of parent, Vomit, and Transphobia

kinsportch's review

adventurous mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Kidnapping

Minor: Death of parent, Alcohol, and Animal death

bookishflower's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Murder

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, and Self harm

Minor: Alcohol, Animal death, Cursing, and Child death

chronicacademia's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Stalking, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Gore, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Animal cruelty, Cursing, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Minor: Torture, Sexual assault, and Pregnancy