Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Gild by Raven Kennedy

53 reviews

jennipea382's review against another edition

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

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Gore, Infidelity, Child abuse, Death, Violence, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, Trafficking, Sexual harassment, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Gaslighting, Grief, Rape, and Confinement

Minor: Alcohol, Classism, Animal death, Blood, Cursing, and Adult/minor relationship

elgef's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Violence, Rape, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexism, Trafficking, Adult/minor relationship, and Kidnapping

Minor: Vomit, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

gfaith's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Rape, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Trafficking, War, and Infidelity

Minor: Murder, Death, Child abuse, Adult/minor relationship, and Blood

phlipsie's review against another edition

2.5

Awfully boring with lots of disgusting male characters. I doubled the audio speed to power through because the next ones are supposed to be significantly better. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Confinement, Toxic relationship, Murder, Violence, Slavery, Sexual content, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Adult/minor relationship, and Kidnapping

Minor: Child abuse, Death of parent, Gore, Alcoholism, Rape, and Trafficking

One giant content warning

kiah_rae's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.5

I spent probably the first 40% of this book almost ready to not continue reading it. It did get more interesting and the added action and stressful situations made it a decent read. That said, there's a lot of toxic misogyny, physical/sexual/emotional abuse, and a main character that is difficult to not to want to scream at. I also think that her naivety and messed up view of people/herself & situation is sort of the point though, so if you decide to read this I'd say just be prepared to be a bit frustrated. I'm assuming the following books in the series will see some character growth and I look forward to it! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Violence, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, and Physical abuse

Minor: Child abuse and Trafficking

I'm not sure whether this labeled as YA, but based on the themes I would not recommend it to minors.

emi_em_em_reads's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? No

4.0

This is a fairly dark book and is not for the faint of heart. As I read this, I was often fearful for the main character and rooting for her as I turned every page. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual violence, Rape, Sexism, Trafficking, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, and Sexual content

heyitsnay's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Rape, Death, Sexual assault, and Murder

Moderate: Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, and Gore

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

rachelglazer's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious fast-paced

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

2.5

Not the strongest writing; the metaphors are weak and it definitely feels like the author stretched one book into a series needlessly. This whole book was build up for the next one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Minor: Alcohol and Child abuse

Gratuitous use of sexual violence to raise the stakes

katbsc's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense

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

3.25

I'm not a fan of the main tension point of a book being "is she going to get brutally raped or not?" It is an unpleasant anticipation for me

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Body horror, Gore, Torture, Physical abuse, Gaslighting, Confinement, Rape, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Infertility, Sexual assault, Murder, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Violence, Trafficking, Slavery, and Injury/Injury detail

mineden10's review against another edition

challenging dark tense slow-paced

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

2.5

Trigger warnings are there for a big reason so make absolutely sure you've read them before you read the book itself.
I feel like I read this quite steadily, but honestly, it's just so slow? 
Auren is a pretty dull protagonist to have to spend time with, she's obviously deep in her Stockholm syndrome, but she doesn't really have a personality beyond PTSD and worshipping Midas. I loathe so many of the characters in the book, literally all the men are disgusting (except maybe Sail but based on the themes of this book, I knew his purpose from line one) with little to no redeeming features.
Some positives however. The world seems thought out, the politics of the kingdoms and the fae world also have consideration to them, and the motives of the characters (except maybe Auren herself) are relatively clear. 
What that doesn't change is how dragged out this all is and from other reviews I've seen, it really doesn't need to be for the series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Murder, Death, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Alcoholism, Torture, Trafficking, Violence, Addiction, Emotional abuse, Blood, Child abuse, Death, Murder, Slavery, Gore, Kidnapping, and Physical abuse