Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

Hunting Adeline by H.D. Carlton

117 reviews

booklov3r__'s review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Child abuse, Medical content, Trafficking, Violence, Blood, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Medical trauma, Drug use, Kidnapping, Stalking, Sexual content, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Child death, Death, Gore, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Physical abuse, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Rape

romanceaddict77's review

dark tense fast-paced

This book is horrific, I had actual nightmares about it. The main character has been human trafficked as a sex slave and it is painful to read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Sexual harassment, Pedophilia, Medical trauma, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Torture, Slavery, Sexual assault, Self harm, Trafficking, Rape, Violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, and Murder

sabrinadawn08's review against another edition

dark emotional funny 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? N/A

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Emotional abuse, Murder, Confinement, Torture, Kidnapping, Slavery, Gun violence, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual content, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Death, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, Vomit, Body horror, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Gore, Blood, Grief, Self harm, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

katylu123's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Child abuse, Cursing, Medical content, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Violence, Child death, Death, Kidnapping, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexual assault, Domestic abuse, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, and Trafficking

feralsarah's review against another edition

challenging dark tense slow-paced

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

2.0

Ugh. This book. I did not enjoy the first book so I didn't expect to enjoy this one either but holy shit did this one really double down on its terrible terribleness. My reasons why will be the content warnings, I just don't think these things need to be explicitly described to be impactful. I'm giving 2 stars instead of 0 because at least you do get to see the FMC heal from her trauma (sorta?) and get revenge. Predictable? Yes. Satisfying? Also yes. If you decide to read this duet do so knowing that it is dark dark dark and also dumb dumb dumb. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Murder, Physical abuse, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Slavery, Body shaming, Blood, Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Body horror, Confinement, Rape, and Trafficking

Moderate: Grief, Eating disorder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pedophilia, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Drug use, and Medical content

cozycutefun's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

3.5

This book was just not as good as the first. I hated the first 35% , it truly just felt like trauma porn and I wished it happened a little bit sooner. The middle of this book though, obsessed with. When she escapes, gets found and is like healing and scheming to kill everyone, loved it. Then the last like 10/15% it was getting repetitive. They have an insane fuck, they brutally kill someone. Like my biggest grife with this book is they didn’t just love fuck once. It always had to be insanely graphic, like have sincere scene please. 

The sex just started to add nothing to the story and by the time I reached the end it felt anti climactic.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Sexual violence, Child abuse, Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Body horror, Gun violence, Trafficking, Vomit, Torture, Emotional abuse, Blood, Sexual assault, Gore, Confinement, Pedophilia, Misogyny, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Violence, and Adult/minor relationship

katiew221's review

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.0

Unbelievably disturbing 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual violence, Slavery, Grief, Gun violence, Self harm, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, Child abuse, Sexual harassment, Death, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Body horror, Misogyny, Cursing, Sexism, Sexual assault, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Murder, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Blood, Physical abuse, Rape, Torture, Gore, Mental illness, and Pedophilia

yukon's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Sexual harassment, Infidelity, Confinement, Sexual content, Body shaming, Pedophilia, Death, Emotional abuse, Car accident, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Drug use, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Misogyny, Murder, Torture, Violence, Rape, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Stalking, and Trafficking

jarstoll's review against another edition

challenging dark tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Trafficking, Cursing, Pedophilia, Violence, Physical abuse, Rape, and Death

readyforit's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense 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

2.0

2⭐️4🌶️(different type of spice than book 1, not in a positive way)
I read an article a few years ago about the show the handmaid’s tale being torture porn. I felt similarly about this book, specifically part 1. I almost DNFed 20% in bc of this and I have never DNFed anything before. Honestly, I’m not sure even sure how these books got published, the torture part of the book is that graphic. I think it probably could’ve been on wattpad and I would’ve been less shocked reading it on there. If you’re looking for a romance, this is not the series for you. Almost every single spicy scene in book 2

uses blood/knife play, which was a little heavy for me. I was disappointed there was almost no sweet reunion between the main characters.

This book deals HEAVILY on the trauma Addie faces during and after

she has been abducted into a sex trafficking ring.

I liked zade’s character development in this book, and we see him as much more than a stalker who has no choice but to give into his darkest desires. Multiple times he says he’ll burn down the world if it means he can save Addie. I don’t like it’s just thrown out there how jay’s character is bi, I wish we could’ve seen him get together with Michael or something! I probably could’ve skipped the whole series, but definitely could’ve skipped this book and just have read the cliff notes or given them a HEA in my headcanon at the end of book 1. I won’t be rereading due to intense dark themes and graphic details. There’s dark romance, and then there’s this series. Please don’t let your teenagers read this🫶

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gaslighting, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Bullying, Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Murder, Rape, Sexual content, Stalking, Cursing, Sexual harassment, Violence, Body horror, Death, Trafficking, Suicidal thoughts, Body shaming, Pedophilia, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Grief, Physical abuse, Self harm, Slavery, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexism

Moderate: Alcohol and Vomit

graphic rape scenes in part 1, spicy scenes in part 2 mostly contain blood/knife play