Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Queen Charlotte by Shonda Rhimes, Julia Quinn

24 reviews

cathy_alice's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Mental illness

Moderate: Sexual content and Racism

jgruman's review against another edition

emotional sad 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Racism, and Torture

Moderate: Medical content and Sexual content

sarahsbooklife's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted relaxing 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Medical content

Moderate: Pregnancy

Minor: Medical trauma, Sexual content, Misogyny, and Racism

aishallnot's review against another edition

challenging emotional lighthearted 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, and Mental illness

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Physical abuse, and Sexual content

Minor: Death of parent, Racism, and Death

abby_can_read's review against another edition

emotional hopeful 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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This is probably my favorite book in the series. I had a good time reading it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Torture, and Racism

Moderate: Medical content, Pregnancy, Sexual content, and Gaslighting

Minor: Animal cruelty

bookishmillennial's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad 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? It's complicated

disclaimer: I don’t really give starred reviews. I enjoy most books for what they are, & I extract lessons from them all. I hope my reviews provide enough information to let you know if a book is for you or not. Find me here: https://linktr.ee/bookishmillennial 

This is basically the tv show/limited series but you get to read the inner thoughts/context behind certain moments, such as George’s experience running into the gardens naked late at night and Charlotte claiming she was Venus. We get the third-person, past-tense POVs of Brimsley, Agatha, Charlotte, and George. 

It was a tender and bittersweet read, and I teared up while reading because I could vividly remember the scenes from Netflix lol. I definitely winced each time characters were discussing George’s mental health because he is called “broken” and “a mad man” multiple times. He never receives a specific diagnosis and everyone talks around it, but it was frustrating to hear mental health discussed as such a horrible, disdainful, shameful thing. I recognize that is representative “of the times” but it still felt uncomfortable reading the ableism and prejudice they all possessed. 

Overall, this was a quick and easy historical romance to read, mostly because I was envisioning the tv series the entire time. I highly recommend the audiobook as the narration was excellent! 

see content warnings below 🤎

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Forced institutionalization, Ableism, Mental illness, Racism, Chronic illness, Sexual content, and Medical trauma

_alyssar_'s review against another edition

emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Torture, Racism, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Homophobia, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, and Alcohol

danajoy's review against another edition

emotional reflective

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.75

This is so like the show. 
It doesn't have the bridgerton era storyline but outside that it's largely the same.

It was fun to read but I had already watched the series and there was very little added by the novelisation. It was nice to be in the world again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Racism

Moderate: Homophobia, Sexual content, and Torture

Minor: Vomit

iamamyyyyy's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

3.0

I probably would have enjoyed more if I had not watched the Netflix show. The book screams cash grab to me. Except for the very beginning and very end, the book does not jump between timelines like the show which works well for the flow of the book. There is one major plotline from the show that was not in the book. Other than those changes, the book is almost identical to the show down to dialogue, descriptions, and facial expressions. The internal monologue of each character (book told from POV of Charlotte, George, Brimsley, and Agatha) does little to expand on what is well portrayed in the show so ultimately what was the point of this book? It's just a novelization of a script. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture

Moderate: Sexual content

sarahsbookss's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny lighthearted 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Racism, Mental illness, Sexual content, and Classism