Reviews tagging 'Trafficking'

These Hollow Vows by Lexi Ryan

14 reviews

garbutch's review

adventurous

• Diverse cast of characters? No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Genocide, Death of parent, Classism, Murder, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, and Confinement

Moderate: Drug use, Alcohol, and Trafficking

Minor: Body shaming

viviette's review

dark mysterious fast-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

I can’t bring myself to give this a 5/5 mainly because the questions it’s left me are too big… I really do not like that both the boys in the end carried faulty feelings and that it ends in a rash decision. I found myself really liking the characters halfway through but the ending fell short as it was super fast-paced and contained much change in a short amount of time. Another thing is the spice was a little much since it wasn’t really needed tbh. I feel like it would’ve been better with just the Finn scene and kissing. It is YA after all. Not to mention, the development of all that stuff was crazy fast! Please pace better girlie!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Trafficking

smuttymcbookface's review

adventurous dark slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

There's so much to unpack in this!

First of all, I the fantasy and plot are easy to understand and get into, though I found some information was a little too glossed over or given at convenient times.

The characters were interesting, and flawed, but a little one-dimensional. Sometimes I wondered why the FMC was allowed to get away with things, and why everyone was willing to uproot their principles for her.

However, it was easy to read, and the plot kept me enthralled.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Slavery, Trafficking, and Abandonment

Moderate: Sexual content, War, Death, Toxic relationship, Incest, and Infidelity

Minor: Death of parent

toastedoats42's review

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

An interesting story and I'm excited to read the sequel. The author uses male and female instead of man and woman in most instances which, despite understanding the reasoning behind it given the story, still gives me an ick. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Violence, and Medical content

Moderate: Death of parent, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Trafficking, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Classism, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Confinement, and Body shaming

booksarefriends_notfood's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

I enjoyed this book for the fae drama and the struggles with the romance but other than that it really wasn't that great of a read for me. I didn't find the character development enjoyable and the plot didn't kick in until the last thirty percent of the book or so.

Even though one of the big plot points was getting MC's sister back, she's completely forgotten about often throughout the progression of the story.

  All in all it was enjoyable but not one of my favorite reads. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Gaslighting, Death, Kidnapping, and Trafficking

Moderate: Sexual content, Violence, Blood, and Emotional abuse

siglerbooknook's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

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

3.0

Personally I didn't enjoy this book. The premise was promising but the execution fell flat. The whole first half felt very much like ACOTAR fanfiction. 

And the ending was not satisfying for me. I guessed a lot of what was going to happen by chapter 10 and almost everything else by chapter 19. 

This felt like the miscommunication trope to the extreme which has never been a favorite. There were so many places where honesty could have made a better story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Violence, Trafficking, Slavery, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Confinement, Deportation, Domestic abuse, Infertility, Colonisation, Gaslighting, and Medical content

Minor: Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, and Sexual content

haley49's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious medium-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? Yes

4.5

This was the kind of book with all the twists and turns I wanted with enough setup to guess twists but still find them believable and satisfying. The romance(s) were well-done in that I went back and forth on who I was rooting for. The unreliable/fish out of water narrator helped build tension and suspense. Only real complaint was that some of the characters could have felt more 3-dimensional; there were some moments where some characters felt more like empty tropes without their own flair. Otherwise, an amazing, unputdownable read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Abandonment

Moderate: War, Sexual content, Infidelity, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Trafficking, Torture, Medical content, Gaslighting, and Death

Minor: Gore, Slavery, Child abuse, and Sexism

Manipulation,

bookishflower's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

2.75

This is a shameless a court of thorns and roses fan fiction, don’t believe me? You have the blond, spring prince and the dark, tattooed, dream wandering, shadow prince both fighting over the chosen one human girl who must free the lands from a curse. And surprise, surprise,

Sebastian/Tamlin is manipulative and evil.

Whatever team you’re on, I’m team single Brie! Give her a villain arc, let her

steal back her crown and get her revenge on everyone who manipulated her. Subvert the genre.

. The representation isn’t great, and the description of the goblins errs on problematic (while this is historic and not a new invention by Ryan,  not researching the history of antisemitism in depictions of goblins-especially after the discussions around j.k. Row*ing-feels sloppy). (However, I should add I am not a Jewish reviewer and you should always listen to own voice reviewers. If I am wrong please correct me). That being acknowledged, this is a fun guilty pleasure book, perfect for fans of acotar and those looking to get out of a reading slump. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Murder, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Slavery, Homophobia, and Trafficking

kinskinn's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Wow. Just wow. Amazing characters and amazing storyline. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Kidnapping, Murder, and Slavery

Moderate: Death of parent, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment

Minor: Alcohol, Gaslighting, Homophobia, and War

offbrandclubsoda's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Sexual content

Moderate: Abandonment, Death of parent, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, and Kidnapping

Minor: Genocide, Slavery, and Trafficking