Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Bloody Bones by Laurell K. Hamilton

6 reviews

starry2013's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Animal death, and Gun violence

jessiejessj's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

2.0

Of all the books in this series, this one was my least favourite. Anita drives me up the wall, and if it wasn’t for the fact this is my best friend’s favourite series, I simply would not continue. Anita is such an unlikeable protagonist, she’s so obnoxious, rude, and full of herself and she does and says nothing that makes me want to root for her, like seriously nothing. My biggest pet peeve though was how LKH brought in sexual assault into this book and did a piss poor job of navigating the topic, and she made it super inconsequential like oh yes they were raped but whoops vampires, like no??! What the fuck?? Ahhh this book made me so angry, I’m glad it was an easy read cause asdfghjkl

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Content Warnings

Minor: Rape and Sexual assault

kerttuli's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Child death, and Blood

Moderate: Sexual content, Pedophilia, and Sexual assault

Minor: Child abuse, Death of parent, and Religious bigotry

unwise_samwise's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Animal death, Blood, and Torture

Moderate: Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Sexual assault

Minor: Religious bigotry and Child abuse

noellelovesbooks's review against another edition

3.25

 Content Warnings: Blood, gore, death of children, death of animals, sexual assault, fatphobia, and torture. Mention of: pedophilia, child abuse, death of a parent, and child abuse.

These early books really hit differently as an adult...and not in a good way 😅 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Animal death, Blood, Child death, Child abuse, and Sexual assault

Minor: Death of parent and Pedophilia

ireadinbed's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious 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? No

5.0

*reread oct 2022* 

This book of all my rereads so far was much better in my mind. I enjoyed the character development a lit but there was just too much going on in the plot. It made the mystery not as easy to solve but it felt like that was because certain things didnt make sense. 

I think it was the murder subplot. If ot had just been the teen turned vampire that would have bern okay, but there were so many elements. 

Byt some Jean Claude backstory! Bath scene! Thats the goods

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Sexual assault, Gore, and Death

Moderate: Pedophilia