Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

46 reviews

brewingespresso's review

emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.0

Solid 4-star read for me! This is such an easy, “I don’t need my brain fully on” book and I LOVED it! It’s so cute, there are so many great Grumpy x Sunshine moments, the burn is slower but the story is adorable. I loved Evie and all her little side notes to herself and I loved the Villain and all his anger issues.

Also I have to be so so fr, you just know he’s hung

Kingsley was a phenomenal character I just wish we’d gotten more of him.

FUCK GRIFFIN SAGE ALL MY HOMIES HATE GRIFFIN SAGE

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Police brutality, Grief, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

kinsportch's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, Murder, and Abandonment

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Genocide, Blood, and Grief

Minor: Cursing

neeeek's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny lighthearted mysterious tense 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Cursing and Sexual violence

Minor: Physical abuse, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Torture, and Abandonment

brimclala's review

adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence

evhanson's review

adventurous funny 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: Violence

Moderate: Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Trafficking, Murder, and Abandonment

acraig9's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, and Murder

protestmyboredom's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted relaxing 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

5.0

Ahhh this book is so good! Light and clever with so much personality. Original but also nostalgic and a cute romance with serious issues but it doesn’t feel heavy. I love Evie and The Villain and I was so excited to have his point of view too- I squealed to myself the first time. I can wait to read more and I’m sure I’ll read this again. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

lusragray's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

A fucking great book. What ab absolute romp. Best romance I've read all year, too.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Violence

savvyrosereads's review

adventurous emotional funny inspiring mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

Rating: 5/5 stars

Evie Sage is struggling to provide for her ailing father and little sister when a chance encounter in the woods leads to new employment—as personal assistant to The Villain.

I’m not even sure I have good enough words to write a review for this one because truly I loved it so much. It started a tiny bit slow for me because it is unapologetically silly, but then it got deep and touching and badass and swoony and I was 10000% on board.

For whatever reason, I didn’t really expect much romance from this but let me tell you…this book provided a new beloved book boyfriend AND a stellar new couple to ship and ugh it just…it made me so giggly and happy to read?! Again, I don’t have good words but it gave me so many feels and made me so happy and I loved it so much.

Basically…go read this book???? The pretty sprayed edges are also a welcome bonus.

Recommended to anyone, but especially if you like: morally grey men; mysteries but make it a romantasy; unexpected depth

CW: Lots of violence/death/gore/injury; mentions of attempted sexual assault

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gore, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

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