Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Kingdom of the Cursed by Kerri Maniscalco

75 reviews

lunahale's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

i read this so fast and i had such a great time 😭 i really think this was miles above book one, and i was so much more interested in the story this time around. the only reason it doesn’t get five stars is because the writing felt just a little inconsistent. it’s like this book was trying to jump out of the young adult category with the sex scenes and the plot lines, but the inner monologues and the prose just couldn’t quite get it there.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Blood

renegadereads's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Grief, and Murder

meat_muffin's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious fast-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

4.0

Dude I’m not gonna lie, I had no idea what was happening a solid 1/3 of the time in this book - I think the author THINKS things are clear, but until she explicitly says them it’s all confusing.

That being said… I ate this shit up 😂

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol

Moderate: Cursing, Sexual content, Blood, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Torture and Violence

theintrovertsbooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Cursing, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Confinement, Death, Infidelity, Rape, Self harm, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, and Alcohol

aleen_elizabeth's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Alcohol

supremeburrito's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

0.25

I loved the first book, but this once instantly took a nose dive off the deep end “add all the plot points and do nothing with them” and “let’s make the character bipolar.” 

Emilia was so strong and then she became so insufferable. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, and Vomit

I couldn’t finish it.

moonchild_cos's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Blood, and Alcohol

Moderate: Death and Murder

Minor: Cursing, Rape, Grief, Religious bigotry, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

legurl56's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious slow-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? Yes

4.25

It's a really good written book but it drives me totally crazy.
I instantly started the third book cause the end was just so mean and open again. 
Still love the book and the whole series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

kayanoelle's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious 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? Yes

4.5

Okay so I don't know where to begin. I liked this book a lot more than the first one!! Emilia and Wrath's chemistry is incredible, omg.
The main aspect that distinguished this from the first book for me was that some of the plot points finally made sense. There's still a lot of things I don't really understand so I hope that in book three, everything will be tied together.
Wrath... I love that man (demon? prince? All of them!). Girl, the way I was giggling and kicking my feet about some of the things he said... he's so protective, too, but not in an unsettling or suffocating way. 
Emilia's character development throughout this book was crazy but it didn't feel far fetched. It actually made sense why she would react in certain ways and she's such a badass now, I love it. (I don't know if I wanna be her or be with her😔💃🏻) Her actions were still a little reckless but definitely less so than in book 1, which was a relief.
This book was also surprisingly funny, I laughed out loud several times.
Last aspect: I really love all of the Princes, they're so funny?? Yes, they're violent and prone to their respective sins but you know... I just love their vibes (especially Gluttony tbh).
See yall for book three xx

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Cursing, Death, Blood, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

leonormsousa's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Infidelity, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail