Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

What Lies Beyond the Veil by Harper L. Woods

22 reviews

lohock's review

dark fast-paced

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

1.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Physical abuse, Suicide attempt, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Violence, Toxic relationship, and Murder

xosirenox's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Classism, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Violence, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

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

nixter's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

sophia555's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

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

1.5

Gross, abuse in Estrella's childhood is repeated by Caelum, who gives nonce vibes, calling her "little one", feeding her, treating her like a child. He pushes her boundaries, consent is shakey and not able be be withdrawn. 
Her fierce independence and hate of life being controlled by men all disappears when she becomes involved with him.
Plot was slow and the reveal was obvious. 
This book made me very angry but I will be reading the second.
Do not recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Suicide attempt

Minor: Violence

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

enchanted_reader32's review

dark slow-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? Yes

2.0

This book was difficult for me to finish, I'm not gonna lie. It started out mostly decent and ended up being overly sexual. The relationship didn't contribute anything to the plot and a lot of the story went missing because of these parts. (Also, very disfunctional relationship. I would've broken this guys' nose and run like hell at any point during this book.) I kept wondering if people really talk like that and wishing that I hadn't read certain parts. A lot of pages, I just skipped. 

The male MC kept calling his love interest  Little One, which is kind of disturbing as that is something you call your child. In the last few chapters I heard way too many variations of the sentiment "I will not be owned by a man" to a point where I thought the character might have been overly-obsessed. Through some parts of the book, when they made references to drinking blood, they lost me. Overall the trigger warnings didn't lie. 

There were a few good quotes and a few good moments of solid humor or cameraderie. Maybe this book just wasn't for me, but that doesn't mean you won't love it. Different strokes for different folks and all that.
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⚡️Trigger warnings (as listed in the book):

•Religious purity culture
•Verbal and physical abuse
•References to grooming behaviour & assault of a minor by an authority figure
•Ritualistic sacrifice
•Suicidal thoughts & ideation
•Graphic violence
•Graphic sexual content

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Grief, Self harm, Sexual content, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Blood

rhxda's review

adventurous 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Physical abuse and Death of parent

_savannahreads_'s review

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Sexual violence, Violence, and War

steffandbooks's review

adventurous dark mysterious 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? Yes

2.5

Well, this is difficult. All I can say is that I did not enjoy this book at all. Someone recommended this to me to read after TWOTQ and I was utterly disappointed. A lot of parts grossed me out, could see the plot twist from a mile away and for me, it felt like insta love, which I don’t like. At least for the male MC when he was introduced 100 pages into the book 😂. I will not continue this series. I guess, if you liked to read a smutty book, ok, but if you‘re here for the fantasy, it would be a no from me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Physical abuse, Sexual violence, and Sexism