Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Flames of Chaos by Amelia Hutchins

17 reviews

genhart3's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

-REAL Enemies to Lovers
-Dark
-Romantasy/ Werewolves, Fae, witches etc
-MMC Alphahole
-MFC strong, flawed, not completely realistic
-55% smut
-Constant cussing
-Dont even come close to figuring things out
-CLIFFHANGER

Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

Trigger Warnings:
Murder, suicide idealization, still-born, gore, self harm, physical abuse, child abuse, attempted child murder, mate marking, molestation, voyeurism... Probably more.
Mentioned but not described in detail: Rape, gang rape, child rape, molestation, savage mulastation, voyeurism, necrophilia, attempted abortion.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Cannibalism, Death, Rape, Alcoholism, Physical abuse, Self harm, Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Sexism, Excrement, Infidelity, Confinement, Cursing, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Murder, Sexual violence, Alcohol, Grief, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, Suicide attempt, Kidnapping, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Stalking, Sexual content, Death of parent, Drug use, Mental illness, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Blood, Bullying, Violence, Slavery, and Torture

rhaevn13's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Miscarriage, Emotional abuse, Gore, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Bullying, Death, Sexual harassment, Blood, Rape, and Sexual violence

khaleesimod93's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.0

I am on the fence on how I feel about this book. The world itself is creative, interesting, and fucked in so many shitty ways. There's a lot that needs to be fixed so I definitely want to see how all this will end.

Now, the hard part. I absolutely hate Knox. I know the author warned ahead of time, but I don't see how he will change. I don't want to read more of him when he's just an egotistical maniac. I get where's he's coming from in grief, but to take it out on Aria, just no. And everything he did to her, just again no. She better end up with someone better. 

Life is a bitch, and you can let it destroy you, or you can face it head-on and show that it doesn’t define who you choose to become in life.”

“You won’t keep me, Knox. I am Aria fucking Hecate. I am a survivor. War is in my veins, and I assure you, if you do this, I will escape you. I will fight against you. I will always fight for my family. It’s in my blood and burned into my bones to protect them."

I choose my fate and my chaos, and what I allow to happen to me is on me, no one else."

“I’m a woman, Knox. We only need a few minutes to rain hell down upon men."

Now to the best parts of the book, Aria and her sisters. I adore the fire and the strength Aria has. She learns and grows. She adapts to her surroundings and never breaks for anything. She is loyal and will burn down the world for those she loves. I have hated seeing her be abused and taken advantage of. Knox has no idea what he is losing because of his quest for revenge. 

The world building is also absolutely amazing. It's complicated with so many issues and underlying complexities. I want to see the rest of the Nine Realms. I want to see all the beauty and darkness they hold. 

The writing of the dialogue is probably what I hated the most. It was just bad. As much as I loved Aria, the back and forth with Knox made me roll my eyes. It just wasn't that good. I wish it had been better and less repetitive. 

Still, I'm going to keep reading. I want to see Aria burn the world down against Knox and all those Witches who betrayed the bloodline and rules put in place. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Miscarriage, Rape, Misogyny, Sexual assault, and Genocide

kmontcrieff's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Was this book good? I don't know. The plot got forgotten about, half of the time the story didn't make sense or it contradicted itself. But I couldn't stop reading it??? I literally kept saying this is so bad and yet, I couldn't put it down.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Blood, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Cursing, Gaslighting, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Death, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Murder, Torture, and Violence

laur_astor's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

2.5

Where do I begin… this was a roller coaster. 😅

It certainly kept my interest the whole time and the smut was decent.

But I did have some issues with this book… the word “fuck” was overused to say the least, the sexual violence was very graphic, and the dialogue was repetitive and a lot of it was unnecessary. Like the whole book could’ve easily been cut down by over a hundred pages.

The plot is super thin and I didn’t know what was happening for a lot of the book, and the major conflict mostly centered around virginity and rape. Toward the end I was more invested in the characters than I was at the beginning, but they were still super unlikeable and it was hard to root for anyone.

I hear the series does get better in the second book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Blood, Gore, Rape, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Body horror, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Murder, and Violence

Minor: Child death

th18's review against another edition

1.5

Ew. Basically a rip off ACOTAR. Mature themes but the writing was childish and the book was filled with sexism, internalised misogny and slutshaming from the first page. Reads like a 12 year olds first wattpad novel after watching twilight especially bc of her silver hair (bfr), colour changing eyes, magically hairless body and her 5ft 3 status. Seriously, one of the characters is called Luna and she's an alpha werewolf. This got boring rq and the sexualisation of the fmc including the constant pointing out of the fact that shes an innocent virgin  who desperately needs to have sex according to literally everyone was really irritating. She was also bitchy to/ abou  every other female in the story. And the author literally only threw in the mothers abuse for pity points-so it seems as it was so badly written. The plot and worldbuilding is a raggedy thread barely holding the sexual assault/ harassment scenes together.  Also surprise surprise she has never felt this way about a (blue eyed blonde haired who's a towering giant with tattoos and plenty of money oh and also the king obviously! ) man before. Lastly the ml is a weirdo - " you're starting to look like a murder victim it's giving me a hard on "   , " you're definitely a virgin - your pureness is very rare" who specialised in toxic and borderline if not abusive relationships . Wouldn't recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Violence, Toxic relationship, and Rape

Moderate: Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Misogyny, Murder, Stalking, Cannibalism, Emotional abuse, Rape, Blood, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, and Death of parent

taylorsversion28's review against another edition

dark sad fast-paced

0.5

Please please look at the content warnings before reading this book. 
It’s horrible but weirdly addictive, like I want to stop but can’t 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Gore, Genocide, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, War, Violence, Toxic relationship, Torture, Sexual violence, Addiction, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Racism, Cursing, Grief, Drug use, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Sexual harassment, Murder, Misogyny, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexism, Physical abuse, and Abandonment

reema_ismail's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

0.5

Never can be bothered to review usually but this was possibly the worst thing I’ve ever read. None of the characters had any redeeming qualities, in fact they were all irredeemable in my opinion, and all they talked about was sex and breeding (SEE TRIGGER WARNINGS). Honestly had to force myself to finish this so many times it was frightful. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Rape, Kidnapping, Confinement, Cursing, Sexual violence, Violence, Vomit, Blood, Bullying, Death, and Emotional abuse

nmjezebel's review against another edition

fast-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

0.25

Terrible. I nearly dnf several times. The world could be interesting but you can’t really tell because the characters are horrible and I hated them all. They never get better. There’s plenty of smut but it’s honestly gross because both characters just suck. Do not recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Classism, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Physical abuse, Rape, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Violence, Misogyny, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Xenophobia, Body horror, and Body shaming

Don’t waste your time.

jurdansupremacy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny sad tense fast-paced

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

2.5

I’m going to be honest with you - this is not a good book. In fact at best the treatment of women in this is fucking disgusting. But am I going to read the next one? Hell yeah.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Sexism, Sexual violence, Suicide, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Violence, War, Death, Sexual assault, Miscarriage, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Toxic relationship, Murder, Grief, Misogyny, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Alcohol and Vomit

Minor: Cannibalism, Cancer, Child abuse, and Adult/minor relationship