Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

The Prison Healer by Lynette Noni

144 reviews

kaylaboevers's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Drug use, Death, Self harm, Torture, Sexual assault, Medical content, and Physical abuse

jaidlyn_7's review against another edition

adventurous emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Violence, and Torture

Moderate: Sexual assault and Rape

lilsunfish's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual assault

christygsp's review against another edition

4.5

I was surprised at how much I actually loved this book. The entire plot centres around the elemental trials and life in this crazy dangerous prison. 
Our main characters are engaging, interesting and encircled by such an interesting world. 
The ending……. I went out and got the next two books on almost that alone. I GOTSTA know what happens next! 
Careful of content/trigger warnings (I will list below) but the author didn’t go tooooo far with those so just be aware. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Torture, and Confinement

Moderate: Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Gore, and Child abuse

lnielsen's review against another edition

Mentions of SA

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault

grace_yin's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Confinement, Blood, Child death, Death of parent, Medical content, Physical abuse, Torture, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Self harm, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, and Sexual assault

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Domestic abuse

av0universe's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

4.0

I didn’t expect that ending?!

This book surprised me in a good way. I really like the worldbuilding and Kiva as the main character is interesting, to say the least. 

Tipp is the cutest character ever 🫶 and for the most part, I really liked the found family

Seriously, I can’t stop thinking about that ending. It blew my mind even though I guessed most of it. Amazing. The narrator is everything here.

I’m pretty sure I dreamed of this book today

Mother is dead.
I’m on my way to Vallenia.
It’s time to reclaim our kingdom.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Slavery, Blood, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Grief, Death of parent, Death, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Self harm, Physical abuse, Misogyny, Medical content, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, Slavery, Addiction, Rape, Sexism, and Torture

Minor: Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Self harm, Sexual assault, Vomit, Violence, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Slavery, and Torture

letiross's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Confinement, Physical abuse, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Drug abuse, Self harm, Death of parent, and Sexual assault

Minor: Child abuse, Rape, and Sexual assault

ephemeralreader's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent and Torture

Minor: Sexual assault and Rape

epellicci's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

3.0

This book somehow felt both slow and rushed. While I expected it to be uncomfortable, with most of the book taking place within an unregulated prison environment, the brutality felt poorly fleshed out. There is constant reference to physical, sexual and mental abuse suffered by the prisoners at the hands of the guards, but it never goes anywhere. Kiva’s internal monologue often refers to how at any time there are people who can take advantage of her, and yet it felt shallow and unbelievable. 

 While the aim it to increase the drama of the big reveal at the end, I found Kiva hard to root for when her motivations seemed so all over the place. She takes on the horrific ordeal of the Rebel Queen’s sentence and punishment, yet maintains throughout that she is only mildly sympathetic to the rebel’s cause – instead driven by her oath as a healer. When in the very last pages, it was revealed that there was much more to it than that, I found it hard to believe that the cool, manipulative Kiva who had just been revealed was the same person as the hopelessly naive one who still believed after a decade that her family were on the way to recuse her, and who broke all her rules about forming relationships because Jaren had a pretty face. 
 
 Unfortunately, I can see fairly obviously where the next two books are going, and am not invested enough in the characters to watch it play out. Despite this being a pretty quick, easy read, that ultimately did no harm, it reminds me of all the things I didn’t like about ACOTR, and so I won’t be bothering with the rest of it.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, and Self harm

Moderate: Drug abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, and Confinement

Minor: Child death, Rape, and Addiction