Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

Flames of Chaos by Amelia Hutchins

22 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

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

keelia_swafford1's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

3.0

I picked this up thinking that it was just going to be a fun lengthy fantasy and didn’t do much research on it beforehand. As one can guess, I was very wrong. I was not prepared for the dark romance elements of this book and I highly recommend that one checks trigger warnings and does research before delving into this. 
Some folks love dark romance with these very strong sexual elements but I’ve learned I’m not one of these people. To each their own, this just wasn’t my cup of tea. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Murder, Physical abuse, and Sexual 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.

zimmerlemon's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

3.0

By far the absolute crudest book I’ve ever read. I can’t honestly say I recommend it or that it is good writing, but obviously I finished it and it has a certain trashy flair I guess. Some of the tropes are fun (even though it’s also all totally over the top/overdone/really slaps you in the face). I’m hooked enough on the plot to want to keep reading the series, but can’t say I’ll ever reread or recommend it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Abandonment, Death, Cursing, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Rape, Physical abuse, Murder, and Blood

aelinwildfire's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

2.75

I liked this book in the sense that the plot and conflict is very interesting. I also love the world/9 realms created. I also found myself somewhat liking the characters though very flawed.
I did NOT however like the very graphic forms of sexual assault/rape/abuse described in this book. I don’t necessarily understand the reason to graphically explain that kind of thing. I feel that part could have been done a little less explicitly because like the explanations are so overly done…like we get it. It doesn’t have to be forcefully stamped in my mind what is going on in that regard. So I skimmed all that crap because tis unnecessary.
Other than the overexplaining I like the plot and world building. I am hoping for better character development as well.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Sexual content, Rape, Slavery, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Trafficking