Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

What Lies Beyond the Veil by Harper L. Woods

3 reviews

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

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

c45p1n's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

k i’m making a list

• this book is literaly acotar’s doppelgänger (derogatory) (in regards to the characters)
• very predictable
• ends on a cliff hanger (is part of a trilogy)
• tropes: fae & faeries, fated mates/soulmates, gods, betrayal, one bed trope (sorta? more of a cling-to-each-other-for-body-heat type of one bed), death is a trope., magic, strangers to lovers, (idk how to describe it but) surviving together, i hate everyone but you (male mc), grumpy x grumpier, again (bc there is so much) character death, um yeah. can’t think of anything else, OH “who did this to you” trope ON BOTH SIDES, yeah that’s abt it
• OH: it felt like a video game in the sense that you had to complete a goal and talk to someone and then just be in stasis for the rest of the story, like just the middle 150 pages were nothingness but the FMC & MMC flirting and traveling with nothing actually happening in that chuck of time. 
• same with the beginning sorta. it was just 1) the veil shattered, 2) XXX & FMC ran away, 3) 50 pages later they meet the MMC, 4) battle against the enemies, 5) the middle where literally nothing plot-heavy happens til chapter 28 
• pretty smutty tbh, not amount-wise but kink-wise
• i’m honestly kinda stumped on what to rate this but i think i’m gonna split it up then find the average and do it from there but you can just use these rates for generality
• plot: 4/10; characters: 7.5/10; smut: 7/10; monologue: 5/10, dialogue: 7/10; world-building: 8/10; fae history explanation: 8/10 (there was a glossary), character likeability: 8/10
• using my 200 dollar calculator, the mean is ≈ 7 so that’s like a 3.25 in my mind
• literally everyone died except the main character and love interest💀
• idk why but kinda reminded me of the hunger games
• read TWs before reading the book fs !!!!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Blood, Death, Violence, Sexual content, and Cursing

Moderate: Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Child abuse, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, War, Sexual assault, and Medical content

Minor: Death of parent and Religious bigotry