Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Iron & Velvet by Alexis Hall

8 reviews

booksthatburn's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted fast-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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Sexual content

Moderate: Alcohol, Drug use, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Death, Xenophobia, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Murder, and Sexual content

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Vomit, and Adult/minor relationship

purplepenning's review

adventurous dark funny lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Animal cruelty, and Violence

Moderate: Abandonment, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Excrement, Stalking, Grief, Cursing, Kidnapping, Medical content, Self harm, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Alcohol

gayghostprince's review against another edition

funny 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? It's complicated

4.0

it's not deep literature, but it's fun. sue me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Death, Violence, Murder, and Gore

Moderate: Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, and Excrement

Minor: Homophobia, Cursing, Confinement, and Sexual assault

the sexual assault is implied in one sentence. that's all.

billies_not_so_secret_diary's review against another edition

funny medium-paced

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

2.0

 Iron & Velvet 

by Alexia Hall 

Paranormal Fantasy 

Sexually explicit 

Scribd Audio 

A female private investigator whose main clients are paranormal, but she won't work for vampires until the right price is offered. There was a murder and she was hired to find out who did it. 

Very similar to other paranormal series, but this one has a lot more 'funnies'. Some of the one-liners, and snarky comments got me laughing, a few snorts, and quite a few eye rolls. It gave life to an almost overdone plotline. 

This is supposed to be book one of a series, but there was so much 'backstory', that I felt as if this wasn't the first book, and even doubled checked to make sure this wasn't some type of spin-off. 

Though, copying lines/ideas from other works, like 'horse and hound,' bothered me because it's playing on the copyright infringement lines. But if credit had been given to where it was from, then it wouldn't have bothered me. 

Some of the phrases, like 'here lies Kate Kane...' while were funny at the beginning and changed throughout, did get a little irritating after being repeated so many times. And there were a few paragraphs where a word was repeated more than twice. 

Even though I liked the story: the world, plot, and the characters, I doubt I'll read any more of this series. There's too much porn for me. I figured there was going to be some from the blurb, but there are some very sexually explicit scenes, and I don't have time to skip the audio. I don't want to listen/read about it. So don't let your kids read this! 

It's disappointing that authors are starting to avoid labeling their works honestly, but there are so many books out there that the retailers don't have the manpower to call them out. (But then again it makes them a lot of money and they can deny knowledge when a reader finally calls it out.) So I have to take a star away for the dishonesty. It's a heavy fine, but just. 

2 Stars 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

welkinvault's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

The prose is very caustically witty, in this very self aware tropy urban fantasy.  The plot is a bit of a mess, and I thought I had missed a prequel as so much happened in the past that kept being referred to (I personally want to read the book of what happend to Kate and Patrick when they were 17).  The characters were not very loveable, but fascinating all the same.  If I read the next book it will be because I want to read more about Elise (loved Elise!!) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Gore

Minor: Addiction, Vomit, Toxic friendship, Stalking, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Physical abuse, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, and Alcohol

astudyinfic's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Excrement, and Violence

Minor: Medical content and Sexual content

cheye13's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

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

3.0

Okay, I love this concept. Lesbian noir paranormal? Immediate sell.

And a success for the most part. I got a little lost with the volume of characters and their interconnections, and it went on a little longer than I expected it to, but for the most part it was quite a good time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual content, and Excrement

Moderate: Blood, Gore, Death, and Murder

Minor: Stalking

The plot is centered around a murder investigation and related murder attempts. A number of scenes occur in a sewer. The main character has an uncomfortable/unhealthy relationship with an ex (wrt stalking), but she is merely annoyed and the situation isn't explicitly dangerous.

ceetje's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Violence and Gore