Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

Tryst Six Venom by Penelope Douglas

16 reviews

becca303's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Grief, Homophobia, Cancer, Chronic illness, Classism, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Lesbophobia, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Adult/minor relationship, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Outing, and Sexism

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Chronic illness, Classism, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Violence, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Abortion, Cancer, Child death, Sexual assault, Sexism, Rape, Racism, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Outing, Misogyny, Mental illness, Lesbophobia, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, Grief, Hate crime, Fatphobia, Emotional abuse, Drug use, and Eating disorder

offbrandclubsoda's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

2.0

It should be illegal to put an 18+ warning on a book that revolves around teenage characters. It should also be illegal to write a threesome that features two adult brothers and a teenage girl. Also this is definitely Riverdale fan fiction. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Bullying, and Classism

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Violence, Homophobia, Sexual violence, Death of parent, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Cancer, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, and Suicide

adriana_azamar20's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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

5.0

HOLY SHIIIIIIT OMGGGGG!!! I’m in love!!! This book 😫✋🏼 10/10. The story, the build up, the fucking waiting, the love and heartache, the ENDING, everything was perfect 🥳🥰😍😫🥹🏳️‍🌈✨😎

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Classism, Body shaming, Bullying, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, and Sexism

Moderate: Grief, Sexual content, and Infidelity

Minor: Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, Violence, Toxic friendship, Death, and Adult/minor relationship

samanthahawn's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Lesbophobia, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Rape, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

myreadingdream13's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

1.0

There were some interesting ideas brought up (briefly).
I expected violence, I've read all the trigger warnings ahead of time, and I can stomach a lot of stupid melodrama, enemies to lovers is in my top five tropes. From the summary, the book sounds fine. But I hated it from start to finish. 
Plot-wise the biggest criticism is the gratuitous amount of trauma and suffering. It's so excessive it becomes funny because every sad thing imaginable has happened to these poor characters. 

By the end of these 500+ pages nobody changes, not really. All of the eating disorder stuff is unresolved. Clay's internalized homophobia just disappears. Clay and Olive seem like a horrible couple. Mind you I didn't expect them to be in a healthy relationship but their good moments are okay. Their bad moments are jail worthy, I found myself angry at the author and her team. 

 
A deeply 2014 Tumbler reading experience.

Writing wise a lot of plot points get dropped and forgotten, probably like 70%. The tone is wack, going from depressing to flirty way too quickly. The pacing is lousy. Some scenes will drag on without an apparent need for them to last as long. On the other hand, a lot of moments felt cut off because we would switch POVs and it is another day. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Bullying, Child death, and Violence

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Police brutality, Infidelity, Eating disorder, and Homophobia

Minor: Abortion, Incest, Addiction, Rape, Self harm, and Cultural appropriation

faithreadss's review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Bullying, and Classism

Moderate: Death of parent, Child death, Violence, Body shaming, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Abortion

ymread's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Sexual content, Homophobia, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Death, Infidelity, Child death, and Kidnapping

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual harassment, Pregnancy, Grief, Vomit, and Miscarriage

bauerrose's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Kidnapping, Bullying, Cursing, Grief, Homophobia, and Sexual assault

Minor: Child death, Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Drug use, and Suicide

emilycruz1016's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Child abuse, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Toxic friendship, Death, Domestic abuse, Grief, Hate crime, Lesbophobia, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Blood, Drug use, Sexual content, Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Chronic illness, Cursing, Gaslighting, Homophobia, and Infidelity

Moderate: Kidnapping, Misogyny, and Sexual violence

Minor: Suicide, Abortion, and Adult/minor relationship

jurizprudence's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.25

olivia jaeger i'd never leave you in the rain

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Sexual content, Violence, and Body shaming

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Toxic friendship, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Religious bigotry, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Death of parent, Grief, Sexism, Classism, Infidelity, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Abortion, Alcohol, Cancer, Child death, and Outing

i miss them already