Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Gild by Raven Kennedy

343 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

---

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

lizzyspooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

3.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Trafficking, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Confinement

Minor: Violence and War

makaylastep's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

5.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual content, Cursing, Death, Trafficking, Rape, Physical abuse, Torture, Body horror, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, Forced institutionalization, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Misogyny, Kidnapping, and Violence

booknerdcoco's review

slow-paced

3.0

OK so this book was really slow, and not much happened until towards the end. However, I have heard that the series overall is good and the second book is better. It is typical for the first book of a series to be predominantly concerned with scene setting so I won't write it off just yet.

The book has lots of swearing in, and some of the scenes aren't for the lighthearted.

There are strong themes of oppression against women, however, I have a feeling that this series will predominantly contain kick ass feminine energy so watch this space.

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Infidelity, Murder, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Body shaming, Classism, Cursing, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Sexism, and Violence

bookishwanderlist's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Murder, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Kidnapping, and Death

agustdefault's review against another edition

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

2.0

this book is so bad. like truly awful. the phrase “balls deep” is used on literally page 2 and i cant even count how many times they said the word cunt. i saw a review that said it was all worldbuilfing but there literally?? wasnt any?? no info on the origin of orea or how the kingdoms formed. no info on the saddles or why theyre called that. very little info on aurens life before midas and like a few paragraphs sort of explaining how they met but no relationship development from then to now. three pages of info on the fae/magic system. the fae and pirates were introduced very suddenly without explanation. and pretty much no info on how the magic works or why everyone has different powers or anything. also there is no romance.

when you finally are introduced to a likeable character they almost immediately kill him off. theres also absolutely no romance in a book thats marketed as fantasy romance. im assuming there will be in future books but the guy who i assume is going to be the love interest isnt even introduced until the last like 20 pages???? and so far there has been literally no talk about how shes in love with an abuser

so. this book is bad. but also somehow entertaining. it kind of felt like watching trash tv and i lowkey might read the next one. 

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Rape, Sexual harassment, Violence, Sexism, and Trafficking

fdoubledashx's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

3.75

Strong presence of sex-related topics which I’m not a huge fan of, but the plot kept me hooked and I finished it in one sitting. Auren has severe Stockholm syndrome. Sail and Digby are by far the most likeable characters so I really hope Digby survives. 

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Murder, Violence, Trafficking, and Rape

kloughlin's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

1.0

This book was an absolute waste of my time to read and, by far, the worst book I’ve read this year. The writing was horrible. Scenes stretched on for entirely too long. Do we really need multiple chapters to describe the day-to-day activities of the caravan as they trek to Fifth Kingdom?

Sail is only introduced so the author has a character to kill off and named what he’s named so a pun can be made after his death.

Give me a main character with some flaws that aren’t actually hidden strengths. I ended up hating Auren, the most wish-washy of characters. Is she a drunk? Does she have Stockholm syndrome? She’s been a prisoner for ten years yet she acts like a person newly held prisoner. She refuses orders and speaks out despite knowing she could be killed for her actions but then the threats leveled against her for those actions are never followed through with.

The only thing she can do when Rissa is being raped is tell the captain to stop. Her next step is turning him into gold—nothing in between.

Even the twist at the end is predicable.

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Sexual content and Violence

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

beckyj514's review

dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

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

3.5

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Confinement, and Sexual content

khaylaa's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

I went into this book as a blind read. I didn’t know what to expect but I really liked this book. I can’t wait to start book 2. It was an unexpected journey with some twists and turns that I didn’t see coming.

There are trigger warns for this book so if you are sensitive to some content make sure you check the warnings! 

This was a fun adventurous twist on the Midas touch mythology and was an easy smooth read for me! 

My only wish some of the relationship development was more in depth. I don’t want to give spoilers but I feel like I didn’t get enough time with the relationship forming between two characters and I loved their dynamic I just needed a little more time with them to have them fully wiggle their way into my heart. 

Highly recommend this book!

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Sexual content, Murder, Trafficking, Blood, Rape, Violence, Death, Kidnapping, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence