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Taming Seraphine by Gigi Styx

26 reviews

aytac's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Grief, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Domestic abuse, Abandonment, Body horror, Cannibalism, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Violence, Cursing, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Rape, Torture, Child abuse, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Confinement, Gore, Alcohol, Blood, Emotional abuse, and Murder

literallychey's review

dark emotional tense 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Confinement, Sexual content, Torture, Murder, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Blood, Cannibalism, and Sexual violence

salma_kaoma's review

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Violence, Blood, Torture, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Confinement, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Rape

ciara__reads's review

adventurous dark fast-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Violence, and Rape

darrenofficial's review

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Physical abuse, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Murder, Rape, Self harm, Abandonment, Confinement, Drug abuse, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical content, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Gore, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, Blood, Car accident, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Torture, and Trafficking

danieller96's review

dark medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Torture, Trafficking, Violence, Rape, Murder, Physical abuse, and Sexual assault

darcycallista's review

dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Orgasms are definitely an incentive to be a good girl and not murder

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Cannibalism, Sexual content, Cursing, Blood, Violence, Murder, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Mental illness, Death, and Sexual assault

morinstn's review

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Trafficking, Rape, Sexual assault, Blood, Torture, and Sexual violence

megdigsbooks's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• 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

5.0

Taming Seraphine is a crazy, jacked up love story that sucks the reader in with the first chapter and doesn't let go until the very last chapter. Seraphine has been held captive by her own family for five years, abused and taught to kill. She is practically feral. When professional assassin Leroi goes in to kill every member of her family, he finds her hidden away in the basement. She looks so small and wounded. He can not help but take her away from the carnage he leaves behind. He moves her into his own home, not sure what, if anything, he can do to help her.  As her shock wares off, Seraphine realizes her life may be different, but her nightmares are the same. And she has an unusual way of making them more tolerable. Leroi has his own demons, but when he looks at Seraphine, he sees an angel, an avenging angel with poor impulse control. The goals become teaching her to manage her more basic compulsions and help her get revenge on those who harmed her. In the process, they realize they work pretty well together. They accept each other for the bits of darkness that live in their hearts and tarnish their souls and love each other that much more because they see them but also see past them. This book has about twenty trigger warnings, and all should be taken seriously. It's a dark romance that will take you from the depths of desperation to the heights of triumph, with a twisty bit at the end that I didn't see coming. I was very surprised at how much I enjoyed this wild little book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual content, Mental illness, Torture, Murder, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Child abuse, Abandonment, Violence, Blood, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Stalking, Confinement, and Emotional abuse

slytekar000's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Blood, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Death of parent, Murder, Trafficking, Torture, Death, Gore, Kidnapping, Violence, Gun violence, Incest, and Injury/Injury detail