Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

Corrupt by Penelope Douglas

16 reviews

ellavlind's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective 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? It's complicated

4.75

Jävligt bra, mötte med något ännu bättre när den blev lite tråkig (den va inte tråkig ofta) och glimpsarna av 3 år tillbaka och nutid va bra timing. Gillade epilogen den va söt.
The catacombs scene och steam room/sauna scene va ju de mest… intressanta

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Rape, Murder, Alcohol, Physical abuse, Blood, Body shaming, Sexual violence, Violence, Death, Drug use, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Mental illness, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, and Police brutality

laurakwiecinski's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexism, Rape, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Gun violence, Fire/Fire injury, Car accident, Animal cruelty, Addiction, Alcohol, Body shaming, Animal death, Kidnapping, and Misogyny

mproper1's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Death, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Sexual harassment, Gaslighting, Violence, Sexual violence, and Sexual content

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Stalking, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Minor: Addiction, Blood, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Sexism, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Animal death, Body shaming, and Infidelity

sissi27's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-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

I don’t get how the author messed up to give Ricka or Micheal any personality in the span of 500 pages.
Some of the scenes were so disturbing and the lack of trigger warnings confuses me. 
Other than that, the only redeemable characters were Will, Alex and Noah but he vanished for the entire novel after being mentioned for maybe 10 pages.
The epilogue was also one of the worst I read in a book because it made me hate Micheal even more. Speaking about him, the only thing he was doing in the whole damn book was gritting his teeth, slamming her against a wall or yanking Ricka’s hair in order to make out with her. How can anyone be that horny and unwell to enjoy this sort of treatment?

I hated how Ricka was underage (16) in the flashbacks and Micheal was 20! I couldn’t see past the inappropriate age difference 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Cursing, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Animal death, Alcohol, and Bullying

Minor: Car accident

backitupmoony's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Alcoholism, Pedophilia, Rape, Kidnapping, Body shaming, Drug use, Incest, and Murder

Minor: Injury/Injury detail and Death of parent

bookshelfhannah's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual content, Blood, Bullying, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Violence

dlsmk's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

2.25

Toxic relationship, SA triggers, assault. He burns down her literal house and she is just so fine about that. It's gotta be a "No" from me dawg, sorry.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Blood, Car accident, Forced institutionalization, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Gaslighting, Grief, Kidnapping, Sexism, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Death of parent, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Bullying, Cursing, Stalking, and Violence

roseamillerg's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Misogyny, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Animal death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Body shaming, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Stalking, Alcohol, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual harassment, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

aakriti_sharma's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

4.25

Okay so yeah this is my 4th penelope douglas book IN A ROW! It was amazing a d challenging...I really loved the character of all the boys except Damon, but its okay he has his own problems...Michael is such a sweetheart♡♡...i really wish there was a boy like him in realty exept the wrong things he did...I really want to live a life like Rika, but yeah some things were too intense to be experienced in real life. Penelope's writing is toxicating, it keeps you hooked till the end, regardless of how boring/cringe/dark you find the book...I really loved the epilouge, wrapping up the whole stor and giving it a meaning. I think what I learnt feom this book is that you should do what you dream for, not expecting anything from anyone.
Overall it was really nicely written!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Blood, Car accident, Bullying, and Death of parent

zc2's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring 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? Yes

4.5

I didn’t like how

micheal never apologizes to her like it was a really traumatizing event and he straight up was like huh that sucks wanna make out? end

the whole tense plot of why are they in jail and why is it Rikas fault really had me on edge wondering what’s gonna happen next. Recommend if you like romantic thrillers!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Cursing, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Drug abuse, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Murder, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Car accident, Confinement, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Toxic friendship, Violence, Genocide, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual content