Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout

56 reviews

steen19's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence

katbsc's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Child abuse, Sexual harassment, Rape, Sexual violence, Gore, and Religious bigotry

janeywaneyb's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny 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? It's complicated

4.25

A must-read for fans of ACOTR. Poppy is the revered Maiden who lives a sheltered life controlled by the Ascended. As her own ascension nears, her own desires and needs wrestle with the expectations on her. When the handsome Hawke becomes her Royal Guard, Poppy struggles to keep her emotions in check. What follows is some earth-shattering truths that Poppy will need to make sense of if she is to survive.
After book one, this feels like a great series, as TikTok readers have claimed. The first half is a little slow as the world & character building is the focus, the last half of the book has a good pace and of course the passionate smut makes an appearance. I enjoyed this read and will continue with the series.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Blood, and Sexual content

Minor: Death, Torture, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, and Emotional abuse

ampersandcats's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse

Moderate: Sexual violence

Minor: Death of parent

mayo_confessionary's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

2.0

It has very good moments, but this needs more polishing. It's a very funny and adventurous tale of a girl caged in a world she doesn't want and someone that frees her through blood and pain. But he is infuriating in the bad sense. Also very predictable story, these plot twist are as straight as the main couple are. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Blood, Death, and Sexual content

Moderate: Sexual violence and Sexual harassment

Minor: Child death

lem0nbalm_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual violence, War, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Rape, and Sexual harassment

hannibanani29's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Murder, Blood, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Gaslighting, Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Kidnapping, Gore, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Fire/Fire injury, Child death, Medical content, Rape, Sexism, Alcohol, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, War, and Pregnancy

stevie_xzo's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Moderate: Child death and Death of parent

Minor: Sexual violence

katyfortner's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

4.0

I am not quite sure why this book took me so long to read. I kept picking it up and putting it back down. I started with the audiobook and did not like the initial one I was listening to and decided to just go buy the book and read it and it flew by. I am not the biggest fan of the character name choices, but I still enjoyed the journey. I don't normally read vampire books, but I definitely enjoyed this one.

Now, I know Poppy is supposed to be this innocent, naïve maiden, but she was frustrating me so much. I could not believe how long it took her to figure some stuff out when I had an idea for a good bit of the novel and every hint just kept confirming it for me. Like Hawke being the "Dark One", there were so many slip-ups that she should have seen, but didn't. One of them being the Duke being staked by the cane that he hit her with on multiple occasions and Hawke had legit just heard about it from the Priestess' slip-up and he just so happens to have been gone while the Duke was MIA. Also, Hawke had admitted to Poppy that he had killed the Duke like WTF. Then when Delano said, "If the Prince wanted you dead, you'd already be dead. You should eat." Hawke had just said that no one is to lay a finger on her and she doesn't put 2 and 2 together. My final straw was how he had mentioned rescuing the Prince's brother and he just so happens to also have a missing brother that he has said he would do anything to see again.. GIRL WAKE UP!
Overall, I did enjoy the story and will keep on reading the series to see what happens, especially since Cas just casually throws out the whole marriage proposal situation at the end of the book.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Sexual content, and Death

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Pregnancy

macgarae's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense 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

The plot started off slow then hooked me enough to keep me going, I was liking Poppy’s character so stayed invested, however the quality of the dialogue writing seemed to go from being believable and interesting to completely stilted and repetitive. I saw the twists coming from a mile off - which I don’t mind, to be honest - but the way Hawke’s character changed became so creepy and unsupportable that I couldn’t even be conflicted in shipping them at the end, all I could feel was discomfort and weirded out, for lack of a better phrase. It may be that this is something tackled in the next book as with ACOTAR, but I don’t think I’m invested enough to put the time in. The world building is strong and the driving societal conflicts are layered and clever, so between those and Poppy’s character, I’ve given this 3* ☺️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Gaslighting, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Torture, Murder, Death of parent, Death, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Child death, and Blood