Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

34 reviews

katipheria's review

adventurous funny hopeful lighthearted 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

5.0

This is such a cute book. The world building feels like a combination of fantasy and modern (there's

an accounting office within the "bad guy's" massive, castle-esque manor that's hidden by magic

) in a way that actually blends well, if a bit goofy. It doesn't take itself too seriously in that regard, but it also doesn't come across as sloppy or poorly designed.

While the overall story is quite light-hearted and even silly, there are a few heavier plot points

such as the death of a child and an attempted rape

but they are written rather tastefully and aren't dragged out or made unnecessarily explicit. 

The book does set itself up to be a series at the end by leaving a bit of a cliffhanger and plenty of loose ends. From my understanding, there will be two more books and I will definitely be picking them up when they're released.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual assault, Abandonment, Grief, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, and Terminal illness

Minor: Child death and Cursing

niamhstorme's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Violence, Alcohol, Confinement, Cursing, Death of parent, Grief, Murder, Sexual harassment, Physical abuse, and Sexual assault

Minor: Alcohol, Terminal illness, Torture, Bullying, and Child death

achay91's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Blood, Murder, Cursing, Sexism, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual harassment and Death

Minor: Alcohol, Child death, and Torture

kay_w's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny lighthearted mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, Confinement, Cursing, Death, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Torture, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, and Violence

torrentsofhayl's review

adventurous emotional funny mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Confinement, Alcohol, Gore, and Misogyny

Moderate: Kidnapping and Cursing

Minor: Sexual assault and Sexual harassment

amschelly153's review

adventurous emotional funny tense medium-paced

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

4.75

So much love for this book. Also, I made the mistake of not realizing it is a series. It’s beautiful and giggle out loud funny and tense and so good.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual violence, Violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Murder, Emotional abuse, Cursing, and Abandonment

amber1y00's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad 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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual assault, Gore, Torture, and Death

Moderate: Blood and Cursing

Minor: Child death

leshy's review

emotional funny fast-paced

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

2.0

If you're into cliches, this is it.
I didn't even finish the first chapter because I ran out of hands to count cliches on. 

For some reason the characters are read like teenagers, even though they're supposed to be in their mid to late twenties. Also their motivations make zero sense to me, and while that might be something that is explored later in the book, I can not possibly bring myself to sift through endless amounts of boring office drama to find them. 

Evie's character is honestly kind of dull, her main character trait is that she's clumsy and that she's consistently lying to her family, her dad having 'mystic illness' which genuinely feels like a filler name for an illness that the author couldn't bother explaining further, which makes it feel like its only purpose is so Evie's dad is out of the picture. 
Villain's character had more physical description than her and one of those is a longer than necessary commentary on his thighs in leather pants, you do you girl but like if you're gonna thirst over a man in leather pants don't be in denial about it. Also he's generically tall, dark and handsome, which is fine but on top of the 3000 other cliches that make up this book is a little redundant.

By the end of the first chapter I wanted to bash my skull in. This is cliche fuel for the cliche bus to cliche town, and I will be walking in the opposite direction.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Cursing

ash_lees_library's review

lighthearted slow-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Sexual assault, Gore, and Murder

Minor: Sexual content and Cursing

whitls's review

dark funny mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Cursing