Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

250 reviews

princess_gtm122's review

adventurous funny lighthearted 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault and Sexual harassment

cmdunham17's review

adventurous dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Death, and Violence

Minor: Child death, Torture, and Sexual assault

quiet_reader's review

adventurous dark funny inspiring lighthearted relaxing sad fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Minor: Police brutality, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual violence, Death of parent, and Sexual assault

spartanjess's review

adventurous dark funny mysterious fast-paced

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

3.5

Charming, funny and quirky. This was a fast read that kept me entertained. A fun change of pace!

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child death and Sexual assault

cerys1411's review

adventurous dark funny lighthearted mysterious tense 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent, Physical abuse, Gore, and Child death

Minor: Sexual assault

alphlia's review

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: Blood

Moderate: Sexual assault and Death

dalek_caan's review

adventurous dark slow-paced

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

3.25

This book has a really drab start, and the characters begin exceedingly bland which makes the book hard to get into. Getting past the first half, however, the book picks up a bit in the second half, though in my opinion the drawnout buildup to the conclusion was mildly unnecessary and could have been filled with more useful content. As the reader gets to know the characters a bit more, there is some clever banter that's rather enjoyable. It's definitely a fun albeit somewhat gorey MG/YA novel that pokes fun at a lot of fantasy genre tropes while simultaneously falling into them.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Violence, Blood, Abandonment, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Torture, Sexual assault, Child abuse, and Child death

busyknitting's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Sexual assault and Sexual harassment

Minor: Child death, Kidnapping, Abandonment, and Trafficking

meah_cookie's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

4.5

Enjoyed this much more than I thought when I started! The narration was… definitely my least favorite part. Had to put it on 1.75x speed to get through it and it was still just off. Very stilted, almost monotoned reading experience… 

Besides that, I enjoyed the overall plot and characters. Id say this is a more plot focused book than character based, at least compared to my other recent reads. Pretty good mystery element and I did appreciate the alternating pov’s though Im not sure it was 100% needed…

Definitely going to read the next book, and am excited for it to come out soon!! 2 things I hope for the next book is: 1. Better narration for the audio 🤷‍♀️ 2. More character external dialogue and development!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Emotional abuse, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual assault and Sexual harassment

Minor: Kidnapping and Abandonment

sulaasg's review

adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.5

This book is just great fun. The sunshine/grump trope is entertaining, and creates likable characters. The fantasy side characters are amusing - shout out to the sassy frog. Evie verges on annoying perfect - my least favourite trope is pseudo flawed women but she gets enough character development that she becomes a bit more fleshed out. There's not a lot of subtly to the writing, but that's not what you come to the comedy fantasy based off a tiktok skit series for. The editing is a bit patchy, at one point a side characters name randomly changes for a chapter. But I still enjoyed the book massively and will absolutely be coming back for book 2

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault