Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

152 reviews

henri_gray's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 30%

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The main character was attracted to a guy that literall  wanted to kill her. Plus, he was a stalker and emotionally manipulated her. Way too toxic jfc. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Toxic relationship

juniebug82's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, War, Injury/Injury detail

jaxbaenre's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional inspiring medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Bullying, Gore, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Murder, War

qatkatcat's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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While a decent read overall, Fourth Wing is full of info-dumping world-building. The author frequently throws in bouts of large chunks of information that are difficult to keep track of and follow. Definitely keep a pen and paper handy to take notes, you’ll need them later in the book. The book doesn’t get particularly interesting until the last third of the book, largely due to the late introduction of the dragons. The enemies to romance trope is strong and the characters are well-written and lovable, but Violet can tend towards a whiney personality that makes her more unlikeable as the story progresses. Overall, the book is largely over-hyped, and while worth a read, not worth spending full-price on.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Death, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Toxic friendship, War, Injury/Injury detail

kemakitty's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

erebus53's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This is complete cheese... YA Fiction styles with adult sexual content.
This is a huge mashup of a bunch of popular tropes; enemies to lovers, competitive survival/hunger games, magic school, magically branded, kid of the boss/warleader, with teen sensibilities but college age soldiers.

Spicy and silly with DRAGONS! .. and secrets, and libraries. telepathy, spirit bonds and a mildly unbelievable political premise.

This one gets bonus points for ethnic diversity and Disability rep.. the main character has joint hypermobility and chronic pain, and one of her friends is deaf-mute and uses sign language. This is a great illustration of people using various accommodations to allow people with different needs to meet their potential. The sexual content focuses on mindful and explicit consent.

The last part of the book annoyed me because BLAH battles.. I'm not really interested in battles. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Murder, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, War

mattyjay's review against another edition

fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: N/A

Strong character development: N/A

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

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Predictable, immature, diversity only for the sake of diversity and mind-numbingly bad. Quick read though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Toxic relationship

emsavors's review against another edition

3.0

fast-paced

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

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Rebecca Yarros really sat down and wrote a book which includes every possible trope ever. Manic pixie dream girl, not like the other girls, i’m no longer attracted to my best friend but i am attracted to the guy who wants to kill me. You’ll find all these and more. Also the ending is just the hunger games: catching fire. (Rating: 1.5)

I hated it a lot less the second time around. Long story short: the premise is awesome but the writing SUCKS. (Rating: 3)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail

emmybtaylor's review against another edition

0.25

adventurous fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Honestly, this was one of the worst books I’ve read in my entire life. The more I reflect upon it, the more I am assured of its negligible merit as a work of literature. The characters are deeply flawed and each characterized by selfishness; there is no true heroism on display on any page of the novel. Moreover, the author seems to laud contemptible behavior such as deception, brutality, lust, etc. The romance between Violet and her enemy-turned-lover is extremely toxic, and all the constant descriptions of how Violet responds physically to simply being in the same room as him are overdone and gross. The author really demonstrated the great number of ways to describe how Violet’s “lower abdomen went warm at the sight of his bare chest.” The open-door sex scene is gratuitous and obscene, contributing nothing to the plot or character development.  
There is zero substance to the story - it is merely a rehashed version of Divergent, or a variety of other fantasy plot lines. There was potential to develop Violet’s relationships with her dragons - an interesting facet of the story being that she has two dragons - but all for naught since Violet hardly ever speaks with her dragons. 
I wanted to like this book, but was truly shocked at how much I hated it. The constant use of foul language was the “cherry-on-top” of this garbage read. If I could “unread” it, I would, and I’m cleansing my palate now with some good, old Jane Austen. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Murder, Toxic friendship

mattyb's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous dark emotional reflective 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Bullying, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body shaming, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship

Minor: Drug use, Vomit