Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

Hunting Adeline by H.D. Carlton

719 reviews

ritterlauren01's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Trafficking, and Kidnapping

kiraea's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

Compared to the first book, this is even more disturbing. Had to put the book down occasionally, but still really loved it. Female lead has a lot of personal growth

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Torture, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Medical content

vass11's review against another edition

challenging dark sad 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? Yes

1.5

Just don’t - not worth it 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

Just don’t - not worth it

kshipp08's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Trafficking

thelayne's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, and Murder

Moderate: Gun violence

katelyn227's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Blood, Trafficking, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

jo_march_'s review against another edition

Let’s say Zade and Addie had their happy ever after and she was never kidnapped. 

This is all too distressing and the warning the reunion is not quick does not motivate me to try and make it through with A.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Stalking, Car accident, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

luisalovesbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.0

This was the second dark romance book I have ever read (the first one being Haunting Adeline, the first part of this duology). 
With these books I learned to take trigger warnings very seriously. (I never had books with extensive trigger warnings so I kind of brushes them off) So, most of, if not everything, I was not the biggest fan of was mentioned in the trigger warnings.
Simply, I should have paid attention and I wouldn’t have had to read what I did not like.

I like that I learned more about myself and my boundaries with this book, even if it was not the point of it. 
I learned more about my taste in books and what to look out for to find books I truly like.


With all of this being said, I liked this book a lot. It was very graphic and hurt my virgin-to-dark-romance-bookish-soul a little but it was very well written. It was exciting and I could not put it down (explaining why I read it 9 days - to me that is fast).

I am glad I read it. And I will be reading more from H. D. Carlton. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, and Murder

misspeachii's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual harassment

solaris_wintergale's review against another edition

dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Trafficking, Kidnapping, and Car accident

Moderate: Body horror, Body shaming, Cursing, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Blood, and Murder

Minor: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Injury/Injury detail