Reviews tagging 'Violence'

A Game of Fate by Scarlett St. Clair

36 reviews

faylinneicedragon's review

adventurous dark 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

5.0

Book 2 was told through Hades perspective. It is the events of Book 1.

I have to admit. I loved it more than Book 2. Something about hearing Hades side of the story made it good. It was a thrilling read. I loved seeing all the parts of Hades we didn't get to see in Book 1. 

I really love that it was Hades that fell for Persephone first, and this book just cements the fact. He's a powerful God. Seeing his worries about his love for Persephone, seeing him make mistakes, was just humanising. They made sense too.

It is a little awkward how often he thinks of having sex with Persephone. It's nice seeing him grow from someone who thinks about that to thinking about what she wants.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Violence

Minor: Sexual harassment

alicia_joy's review

dark 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Cursing

Moderate: Alcohol, Blood, Murder, Violence, and Torture

margaret_k30's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Torture, Gore, Violence, Sexual content, and Cursing

Moderate: Addiction, Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Drug abuse

Minor: Infidelity, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Confinement, Death, and Emotional abuse

ells___'s review against another edition

hopeful 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

4.0

Reading this, after a touch of darkness is a must!!  I would not have enjoyed this book as much if I had not already had Persephone POV.  I also would have been so mad if I found out I had missed out on the Hades POV goodness. Getting to see what was going on in his brain and seeing all the stuff he was going through in the moment just makes the entire story feel so much more rounded and fulfilling. 

I can’t wait to see how their story continues and continue to get POV’s from both of them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Torture and Violence

Minor: War

xapoptosisx's review against another edition

dark 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

4.5

I'd say a touch of darkness was a tad bit better but I still really enjoyed seeing hades pov and the story was interesting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Death and Alcohol

Minor: Grief, Blood, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, and Gore

grace33's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Torture

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Death, and Violence

amberinpieces's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Cursing

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Alcohol, and Blood

Minor: Drug abuse, Death, Gun violence, Vomit, Addiction, Sexual assault, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Violence, Grief, and Murder

kayemm's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful fast-paced

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

3.75

This is a fun lighthearted book. It's very very steamy. The steam is equally balanced without weird gross power struggles. 

Persephone is particularly young in this version of the story, but she is of legal age for sure. She's a college student. She's kind of whiny and annoying, and her development is very slow. The second book is much better, but you do have to get through this one to get to that one.

Hades is more thoughtful than typically given credit. Thankfully the story is told from his perspective, and it feels more balanced that way. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Violence

zc2's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny lighthearted tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I read persys pov first wasn’t aware hades pov existed but it was neat to see things from his perspective I enjoyed it but it the books did feel like repeats. Persys story was more intriguing to me but there was so much detail in this one it’s difficult to wrap my mind around everything that’s happening beginning to end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Blood, Cursing, Kidnapping, War, Alcoholism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Torture, Toxic relationship, Death, and Violence

allisonmspiers's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective medium-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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Sexual harassment, Torture, Death, and Sexual content

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cancer, Gore, Child abuse, Child death, Drug use, Sexism, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Confinement

Minor: Kidnapping

Just a note: it's hard for me to separate the triggering events in this book from those in "A Touch of Darkness," as I read them back to back. I may have listed some content warnings that are more applicable to "A Touch of Darkness" than to this book from Hades' POV, so I'm sorry if this is the case! Most of the important events are the same, however, so I think that most warnings from "A Touch of Darkness" would make this list nonetheless.