Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Prince's Gambit by C.S. Pacat

32 reviews

mallorypen's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

4.25

So maybe I just dislike the first book in any trilogy CS Pacat writes, because I ate up this book like friggin’ candy .

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: War, Child abuse, Child death, and Violence

Minor: Suicide

rhi_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, War, and Violence

Moderate: Rape, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Sexual assault, and Child abuse

Minor: Suicide

cm02's review

adventurous emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Violence

Moderate: Sexual content, Pedophilia, and Child abuse

skypirateb's review

adventurous challenging funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Suicide, and War

Moderate: Child abuse, Slavery, Death, and Violence

violetlunablossom's review

dark emotional 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? Yes

4.75

Good God was this book spectacular, I couldn't put it down! From the high political stakes to the shocking plot twists, Prince's Gambit had me engaged with the story and its characters from beginning to end. I definitely enjoyed this more than Captive Prince and it seems that I'm not alone in this sentiment. Pacat was able to take the political intrigue and scheming and crank it up to an eleven—you can clearly see that this is where her strengths lie in and she executes everything so brilliantly. I'm so used to predicting plot twists but I was caught off guard multiple times. 

Also the slow burn? Brilliant, incredible, amazing, show stopping. When I say I like an enemies to lovers slow burn, I'm talking about Damen and Laurent. The sexual tension was so thick and I love how we can see the previous master-slave dynamics of the previous book melt into something akin to friends. Key word: akin, because Damen and Laurent aren't exactly friends by the end, and I just love that Pacat isn't rushing it. She's letting the secrets and guilt build up until it comes to a bubbling boil.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Violence, Sexual content, Slavery, Pedophilia, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Child abuse, Murder, Blood, and Trafficking

paholizz's review

adventurous dark fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Slavery, Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Colonisation, and Grief

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Incest, Alcohol, and Drug use

viivacious's review

adventurous funny medium-paced

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

5.0

Loved this the first time and loved it even more in reread, as I understand more now. I spent most of my time reading this with a smile on my face. The characters ended this book very differently from how they started it and I enjoyed watching them go from being reluctant allies that can't stand each other to friends and a little more. The extra half chapter is sweet and a little heartbreaking. Some parts of the book were a little hard because of all the child abuse that is mentioned or implied.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Child death

Minor: Child abuse, Pedophilia, Incest, and Adult/minor relationship

louisallama's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

4.0

The characters, relationships, and plot twists in this series are absolutely phenomenal. My jaw was on the floor several times. The best part is that all of the twists are foreshadowed and well earned. 
Also I want to break Laurent down into a primordial goo, put him through a centrifuge, study the resulting pellet under a microscope and do chromatography on the supernatant. I'm so normal about him. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Rape, Injury/Injury detail, War, and Violence

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Suicide, and Child abuse

sarahflies's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Slavery, Toxic relationship, War, Incest, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Violence, Child abuse, Death, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Infidelity, Animal death, Classism, and War

blupblup's review

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Pedophilia, Child death, and Adult/minor relationship