Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Steel Princess by Rina Kent

18 reviews

rabbitsdolly's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Mental illness, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Death, Death of parent, Blood, Bullying, Violence, and Kidnapping

culzean's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual assault, Sexism, Vomit, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Gaslighting, Stalking, Alcohol, Body shaming, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Torture, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, and Sexual content

camipuchta's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

5.0

This is definitely a very, very dark book full of twists and turns, but the plot is awesome if you don’t have triggers!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship and Sexual content

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Child abuse

Minor: Torture, Suicidal thoughts, and Stalking

sam019's review

dark mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Toxic relationship

gracescross's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Sexual content, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Blood, Bullying, Kidnapping, Torture, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Death of parent and Child death

poppy_ascher's review

dark emotional fast-paced

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

4.0

Aiden and Elsa’s relationship grows with Elsa’s determination to remember her past and not be a pawn in Aiden and his father’s game. 

Which I would have enjoyed more if, yet again, Kent moved out of their pernicious and oppressive need to protect readers from the realities of Elsa’s inability to trust & Aiden’s inability to not be a dick. Alas, Kent remains steadfast in their inexplicable need to reiterate that this is a bully romance, and surprise! There are bullies in the story! Consequently, the characters appear very two dimensional and seem stuck in this repetitive holding pattern for 200+ pages. Only within the last couple of characters do we see a progression within the plot. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Child abuse, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Kidnapping

folkofthebook's review against another edition

dark 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Kidnapping

Minor: Child abuse, Confinement, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Medical content, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

corcordium's review

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

2.75

okay this was slightly better than the first one only because we finally got some answers to elsa's mysterious past. but it was annoying that the entire book was spent between the characters having sex just to get some tidbits of info right after they fucked. it made the book incredibly repetitive, and it didn't help that elsa was still a doormat heroine despite her saying she was gonna 'beat aiden at his own game' -which clearly never happened-, and aiden a piece of trash. i can't care less about this couple i just want the side characters' books pls

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship