Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

La jaula del rey by Victoria Aveyard

19 reviews

ishouldbereading's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

2.0

Maven once again saved this horrible abomination.

Tell me why does Mare end up with Cal? He chose THRONE over HER TWICE!!! If a man does that he should be glad he doesn't have red mark on his face from my hand

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Death

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, War, Blood, and Torture

Minor: Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, and Panic attacks/disorders

sarahthenerd's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad 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

4.0

TW: torture, toxic obsession and toxic relationship

⭐⭐⭐⭐.75/5

First off, I really love multiple POVs. I love Cameron's POVs. They gives insight of the Scarlet Guard operation and her feelings towards herself and people around her. Cameron reminds me a bit of Mare. And I also love Evangeline POVs because I got to read her love towards Elane.

And second of all, why is Maven so hot in this book. Especially the bathroom scene wtf. Mare and Cal's moments together too wtf. This book is just *chef kiss*

ALSO OMG THE EPILOGUE?!??!???!!?!!? WTF VICTORIA!!!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Toxic relationship

sarahsheppard23's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Torture

kinsportch's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

King’s cage was definitely a better read than Glass Sword, but does not quite add up to Red Queen. Mare Barrow is consistently an unlikable character focused primarily on herself the majority of the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, War, Kidnapping, and Torture

Moderate: Confinement, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Minor: Cursing, Lesbophobia, Pregnancy, and Sexual content

readwithde's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.25

I really enjoyed this book. Having the characters split gave them some extra time for progression (both character and plot).

While I get why Mare would be kept prisoner for so long, I would have preferred more interactions with the court, if not with Maven.

Even bringing in Evangeline's POV chapters earlier would have helped that section fill out a bit more, even if it tipped her family's hand a bit.

Cameron was an interesting POV for the Scarlet Guard/red side of things, which again left much of the political machinations off the page, but at least gave the basics. Even Kilorn would have been a better choice, in my opinion. 

I feel like the final third of the book dragged a bit, at least up until the climax,

the second battle at Corvium.

It just felt like the pacing was off after

Mare was rescued by the Scarlet Guard.

I think there was too much build up in the beginning that didn't leave enough room for the three bigger battles.

Finally,

I know we should want Cal to choose Mare, but I don't think he's wrong to ask Mare to choose him instead. I'm hoping there is a way for compromise in the final book, but I'm happy that each of them are actually dealing with what they want instead of throwing away their convictions, training, or lives.

Overall, this was a strong sequel, and I was surprised by a few things; I'm very excited to read the final book and the short stories.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, and War

Moderate: Confinement, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Torture, and Vomit

trulydevious's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, War, Violence, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Torture, Self harm, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, and Medical content

Minor: Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, Pregnancy, Gore, and Child abuse

llsugarspicell'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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

I really loved this book, it’s better than the previous one.

⛔️ Spoilers ahead ⛔️

I loved Cameron and Evangeline POVs and enjoyed being in their heads for a change. Mare is good but she can’t pick aside just like Cal, she’s desperate and in love-hate relationship with Maven … yes she hates him but at the same time he’s all she can think about and want his attention and get jealous and want to convince herself she doesn’t care about him all the time.
 
Maven’s back story just broke me, i mean i guessed before his mother did something with his brain but I didn’t imagine it to be that bad, she  converted him into a sociopath and i just hated her more.
and can we talk about how the bath tub scene is THE BEST .. I don’t know why but my heart broke into millions and millions pieces after reading that chapter it was so great i felt every emotion … I’m not ready to read how my mavey baby gonna die 😢😭💔

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Racism, Slavery, Torture, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, and War

Moderate: Vomit

bgmylc's review against another edition

slow-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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, and Torture

jasmine_0206's review against another edition

adventurous challenging tense medium-paced

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

4.75

This one is soooo much better than the Glass Sword. It is crazy of the development of all the characters. It started off really slow but after that it got a lot better and the different pov’s made the story of all the characters a lot better.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Torture

Moderate: Blood, Child death, Death, and Death of parent