Reviews tagging 'Bullying'

The Kraken's Sacrifice by Katee Robert

5 reviews

vixenreader's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective 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

4.0

More character-driven than its predecessor, this monster-lover story is a heartfelt tale about moving forward from grief (whether it be through death or parental neglect/abuse), finding love for yourself while finding the right partner in the process, and lots of saucy times with tentacles. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexual content, Slavery, Grief, and Abandonment

Moderate: Body shaming, Self harm, Medical content, Abortion, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Bullying, Death, Fatphobia, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, and War

Be aware that this text tackles low self-worth, emotional abuse from previous relationships, putting up walls to avoid getting hurt again, body-negativity due to low self-esteem, the loss of a spouse, the paralysis of grief, self-gaslighting, fear of abandonment, contracts with demons, love slaves, and recovering from an abortion.

sup3r_xn0va_maya's review against another edition

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

3.0

Thane is a POS and I'm so annoyed with this book. Catalina deserves so much better than his dumb ass. I understand that he's going through loss and grief but that doesn't give him the right to be neglectful and borderline abusive towards Catalina. Thane takes too long to start treating Catalina right in my opinion, and it's frustrating as hell.

I don't think book was long enough to address the trauma that Catalina has gone through or the grief that Thane is dealing with. Because of the short length of the book, Thane is an asshole and selfish for 60% - 70% of the book, so basically for most of the book. 

He's so careless

that he ends up giving Catalina "The Bends" at the start of the book. He then locks her in a tower for weeks on end, leaving her in isolation. 

For those few weeks she was only fed bread by the tower/kitchen workers because they thought she was purposefully being neglected by Thane and they wanted to follow in his footsteps. 

Even though both characters discuss not wanting children, Catalina gets pregnant because he doesn't think about using any form of contraception. Up until the 70% mark, Thane has sexual encounters with Catalina and then he always leaves right afterwards. Leaving her feeling rejected, neglected, and used (like all the other people in her life have already made her feel.)

I would say that this book has an okay amount of spice. I really want more spice in my monster erotica! I would rate this 3 🌶️ chilies/ out of 5🌶️ chilies.


Overall this book was really frustrating but the smut was okay so I'm giving it 3 stars out of 5.
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I listened to this audiobook for free on Hoopladigital.com

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Grief, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Abandonment

harveyjoy53's review

emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Grief, and Abandonment

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Abortion, and Pregnancy

Minor: Death and Toxic relationship

a_libra_library's review

adventurous funny lighthearted relaxing tense fast-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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Abortion, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

kbairbooks's review

challenging dark emotional reflective relaxing sad fast-paced

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

4.25

Honeyyyyyyyy YES. I love Katee Robert, I love that she wrote this book, I love the child free aspect of this book, I had such a good time with this read and I finished it in a day. I’m really enjoying this series and I love the concept too. Oh, and we can’t finish out this review without talking about the TENTACLES ugh honey yes. My only negative is perhaps that I wanted the tentacle scenes to be longer? And more detailed? But I had a blast and I can’t wait for the gargoyle book. Onto Ramanu’s story!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Abortion

Minor: Pregnancy