Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Forced Bonds by J. Bree

39 reviews

shaykay's review

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

5.0

Talk about some WTH moments! In this one, we start to unravel some significant things about the magic/bond system in this world. But it's one of those series that has to be read in order, and the further along things get, the harder it is to explain what happened without spoiling things. But I still like where things are going for this story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Death, Violence, and War

Moderate: Death of parent, Alcoholism, and Emotional abuse

noellelovesbooks's review

4.5

 Content Warnings: sexual content, violence, blood, gore, body horror, death, murder, torture, kidnapping, and war.
Mention of: death of parent[s], toxic relationships, toxic friendships, child abuse, child sexual assault, and alcoholism.

Holy crap, by early afternoon I'd hit about 50% so I decided to do a bunch of house cleaning...then when I go to lay down last night I decide to finish the book...and that ending!

This book had me all kinds of emotional and desperate to start book 5. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, Murder, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Sexual content, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Toxic friendship, and Alcoholism

fairyelle's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.25

This has been the best of them by a long shot… there are def things I do not like I am not at all okay with

what went down between her and Nox to be bonded…that’s not at all how I thought it should’ve been

It made me feel so grossed out and disturbed I almost decided to stop reading the book even though it was actually really good. Another part I hated was the

orgy, like I really could’ve done without reading Oli getting a train ran on her like a gods damn porno. And I felt so grimy after reading it because it had the same disgusting atmosphere as a porno does. 19 yr old Oli being treated like a hole to fvck just didn’t sit right with me at all. The one on ones are fine I guess but the orgies almost ruin the book for me. Maybe everyone likes it but me but it Icked me and I reallyyyy don’t need to ever read that again

but yeah we actually had a plot in this one which I appreciated lmao

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Sexual content

Moderate: Sexual violence, Blood, Alcoholism, Gun violence, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Vomit, Violence, War, Death, Classism, Kidnapping, Confinement, Child abuse, and Alcohol

liliana_b's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Sexual content, Violence, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Confinement, Alcoholism, War, Vomit, and Gun violence

iben_flor's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Death, Sexual content, Child death, Toxic relationship, Violence, and War

kenna__suan's review

emotional funny fast-paced

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

2.0

i’m so confused rn… i have a lot of questions: why are there so many ppl? why do these characters feel so flat or half assed? wtf is happening? and also why tf is nothing ever happening either?

***sidenote: based on the last couple books the author definitely could’ve portrayed a tortured broody male character without the misogynistic overtones***

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Classism, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Murder, Blood, Violence, and Mental illness

Minor: Misogyny

Misogyny has toned down since the previous books

beckyremillard's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? Yes

4.75

A dragon?! Scratches my Fourth Wing itch..
That ending is rough, glad the next book is already out for me to immediately start. I expect that there’s more to the story than I think because there is too much unresolved with Nox for him to die. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, War, Murder, Kidnapping, Violence, Vomit, Torture, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

bangiebangs's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional fast-paced

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

3.75

I liked the story progression here - there is lots going on, and we finally learn more about the Resistance (except... what exactly they are resisting against? Still not clear to me). 
The rest of the bonds get completed here, though one is with... very very questionable consent (on both sides). Consent is kind of implied, but bonding also happens under pressure for one of the participants. I'm not a fan of this... even if it works out in the end. But part of the story is that this coupling is messed up for reasons that predate the events in the books. 

The small comments about body size are happening again (in all the books, and I dislike them a lot), and the more we learn about bonds the more they are all hetero somehow? Like... where are the central bonds that are bonded to people of different genders? Why is this all so straight? I feel like that's wasted potential in this universe. 

Am already reading the next one and will finish the series, but these basic problems run throughout (occasional fuzzy consent, heteronormativity (even if yes, there is a token gay character), body image). The plot itself is interesting and I'm enjoying the twists, though. Also, the spice is pretty good, would give a 4/5 (esp recommend if you like multiple participants, I just wish they would also interact with each other, not just the MFC, because again, wasted potential...)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Alcohol, Blood, Toxic relationship, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Violence, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Death, War, and Gun violence

Moderate: Vomit, Car accident, Child abuse, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Grief

questionable consent

taylormaria's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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? No

4.0

4 ⭐️. how on earth could someone build up all this tension between two characters just to kill one off. i know that for sure the death of nox will break oli.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, and Grief

Moderate: Cursing

vault_assassin_01's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Violence