Reviews tagging 'Rape'

The Ice Princess by Camilla Läckberg

11 reviews

boozer's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Death, Domestic abuse, Grief, Classism, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Rape, Pedophilia, and Child abuse

pau0704's review against another edition

mysterious 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

2.5

Slow and very predictable book. The story has nothing new to offer. To my taste the characters lacked some depth, even though the author tried very hard to give them back stories I think she did not accomplish what she aimed for. I found it so interesting how the characters kept missing clues and information, and I guess it was on purpose, so the author could keep the book going, which is not always good.
I read a translation, not the original language in which the book is written, not sure if it was the translator's fault, or if the author really writes like that, but hated the way it was written, there's so many words that are so repetitive and posh words that no one uses, almost feels like this book was written with the intention for it to become a tv series one day. 
I saw the author has published many more books since this one, from the experience I got from this one I won't be reading another book from her, but I hope she has improved since this book was published. And that she also has overcome her fatphobia 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Rape, Infidelity, Suicide, Child abuse, Mental illness, Pedophilia, and Sexual assault

hlesdana's review against another edition

mysterious 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? No

2.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Rape and Murder

pennyhrt's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse and Rape

tuuliareads's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Ihan koukuttava. Mielenkiintoista seurata ihmisten ajatuksenjuoksua eri tilanteissa. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Pedophilia

Moderate: Rape, Infidelity, Suicide, Drug abuse, Sexual assault, Misogyny, Ableism, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Minor: Sexual harassment and Drug use

raelin's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

Check CW for this one.

A good solid mystery for the first in a series. I was gifted book 2, so reading this was prep work for reading that one.

There were a lot of characters to keep track of for the first 1/3 of the book, until I could keep track of who they all were and how they connected to each other. 

I enjoyed the pacing and all the twists and turns the story took. I did not enjoy some of the shame-y descriptions of the characters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, and Violence

sheshallbenamed's review against another edition

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Pedophilia, Rape, Suicide, and Murder

ran_sophia's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

I liked the story a lot and it was very well pointed. I really liked the style of writing and storytelling. He was very readable and ran at a brisk pace. However, I must say that some lines of the story did not, in my opinion, end properly.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Rape, Sexual violence, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Pedophilia, Injury/Injury detail, and Misogyny

Moderate: Grief, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

Minor: Death of parent, Abortion, Car accident, and Blood

oh_w0rm's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes

I’m not sure what to give as a starred review but I will tell you that the style of this book frequently aggravated me; the characters would find new information and go, hmm, that’s interesting, and the readers wouldn’t get to know the information for potentially dozens of pages. I know why it was done, but it still annoyed me. And there were so many threads that in the end I still had a few questions that were answered in the book but I no longer remembered after so much else had happened. But maybe that’s just me and my bad memory and slow reading.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Murder, Rape, Pregnancy, Pedophilia, Mental illness, and Grief

Minor: Death, Death of parent, and Domestic abuse

inescunhaleal's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Medical content, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Self harm, Suicide, and Violence

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Grief, Hate crime, Miscarriage, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

Minor: Abandonment, Abortion, and Death of parent