Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Shielded by KayLynn Flanders

1 review

guinevere_s1994's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

3.75

Overall I enjoyed this book. It started off a bit slow and didn't start getting really interesting until about chapter 6. After that I found it far more appealing. Some of the events are somewhat predictable, though there are one or two unexpected occurrences that add interest and depth to the story.  Things seemed a little too easy for the protagonist,

she gets injured a lot but nothing seems to have any real long-term consequences

. I would have liked to have seen more character development, both for the protagonist and supporting characters, but overall they are likable and I am interested enough to read the next instalment when it comes out. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Blood, Death, and Violence

Being a YA novel it does play it safe but there are a couple of scenes that might be triggering for some,

one of the characters is attacked and it is implied there might have been a sexual assault had it not been interrupted

. It can get a bit bloody throughout,

in one scene someone's throat is cut

, and there is mentions of trauma and flashbacks associated with killing and seeing others be killed.