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What Lies Beyond the Veil by Harper L. Woods

29 reviews

ivymaew's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense 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? It's complicated

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death of parent, Sexual violence, Death, Suicide, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Grief, Classism, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

midnacine's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

One star taken off because the relationship felt a little rushed and there was a lot of foreshadowing to the twist that made it a little predictable. Otherwise had a good time and if A Soul of Ash and Blood didn't download to my Kindle 40 minutes ago, I would immediately start the second one

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Suicide attempt, Religious bigotry, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Murder, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Death of parent, Grief, and Physical abuse

charhollyx's review

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

I picked this up expecting a lot more similarities to ACOTAR than there was😂 sure, there are the same courts with the added shadow court, and fae and a veil between humans and fae, but this told a very different story.
Do I like the main character? Not sure just yet. As someone with little tolerance to disrespect and lies, I wouldn’t be great friends with her irl.
The love interest? Meh. I didn’t care for his possession or dirty talk.
But the world is pretty cool and I’m intrigued to see where the story goes next
I would say the “graphic sexual content” is quite moderate, and the only graphic warning would be the damn gaslighting

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, and Adult/minor relationship

shan_lou's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Misogyny, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

cady_sass's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.5

Someone said this book is what you would get if you told an AI to write a fantasy romance, and that’s about all I can say. It’s certainly not very good, the dialogue is cringey and unnatural and there’s zero character development. There just… no depth. But I didn’t HATE it. And now I have to read the sequel *sigh* 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gaslighting, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Suicide attempt, Torture, Death of parent, Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Gore, Toxic relationship, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Murder, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Violence, and War

littlelucyc's review

dark tense slow-paced

• Loveable characters? No

2.0

I'm sorry but I can't enjoy a book with so much coercive control, dubious sexual consent and roughness justified by "love" when the FMC had never wished for love just freedom. Abuse can convince even the strongest of women that they want something/someone they actually don't. If there had been less of that I might have liked it... don't think I'll be reading any more of the series. I also didn't feel like there was any true plot in this book at all unless you count

Caelum's real identity as the plot

which I don't 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual harassment, Violence, Physical abuse, and Sexual content

lmuania's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

2.0

No tension in my view. Storyline meh. No surprises at all. 

But also: Caelum did not respect her boundaries. He was not better than

Jensen. (e.g. when he touched her butt and she was trying to get away but he woke up and roled on to her. Or when they were bathing the first time and he saw her scars. Or When she didn't wanted the people to see her pussy but he told her to show him "his funking cunt". Like literally all the time)

. We as the readers (more or less) knew that she was fine with what he did, but he couldn't know that because he never asked her. What i am trying to critisize is

he said so often, that he wouldn't do anything without her permission but that is just not what he did. She said at some point that it is a fact that he respected her boumdaries.

and it really pisses me off that they are all thinking that way. It is objectively not true. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, and Injury/Injury detail

chaotic_hyperactive's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious slow-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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, and Violence

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Blood, Murder, Gore, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Classism, Grief, and Torture

jadehusdanhicks's review

challenging dark sad fast-paced

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

2.5

Not going to lie I struggled with this book.  The general fae story line was amazing and if it was that alone I’m sure I’d probably continue the series. 

Unfortunately it contains very consistent weird sexual content with a male MC calling the female one little one which didn’t sit right with me.  
Additionally it deals with grooming, suicide, murder and SA.  

Overall I was left disturbed especially by the graphic sex because of the phrasing and the uncomfortable nickname used.  I wouldn’t reccomend personally.  
And I’m not against spice in books.  But this was just horrid to read 

Also. Despite this book seemingly being set in an old dystopia landscape it kept bringing up modern clothing like leggings.  Which just seemed so seperate and disconnected from what I understood to be the setting

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Toxic relationship, Violence, War, Cursing, Gaslighting, Murder, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Bullying, Child abuse, Classism, Suicide, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual harassment, and Sexual content

katvou's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Death of parent, Gaslighting, Animal death, Blood, Child death, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Rape, Medical content, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Torture, Chronic illness, Grief, and Emotional abuse