Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent

15 reviews

skillyillian's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

Phenomenal. Absolutely divine. I got Kindle unlimited just for this series and it's so worth it, holy shit. It was like I was reading acotar for the first time all over again, but sexy vampires in a scary competition. Like that feeling where you know you're experiencing something for the first time that you will be sad you cannot experience for the first time again later. The TENSION. the DRAMA. The FIGHT SCENES. the MAGIC. the WORLDBUILDING. The BACK TO BACK PLOT TWISTS. I fucking weep. I'm immediately jumping into Six Scorched Roses, I NEED more of this. 

My only complaint is the smut. All this insane sexual tension builds up for most of the book and then they finally boink and just. The use of "wet folds" or "slit" is a hard pass for me. Points for outright saying clit, but immediately revoked for calling a vagina a "slit" bc what the hell, that's just as bad as "gash" imho. The cave scene was divine, like kicking my feet twirling my hair giggling smiling perfection. Loved it. But they got naked and the words got weird and it was a turn off for sure. If I have to read "wet folds" in smut one more time I'm throwing myself into the wet folds of the Mariana trench istg.

But besides that, incredible. I read this in like. Two and a half days, at most three? I literally read 80% of this book in one day. So fuckin good. Five stars despite the wet folds. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death of parent, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Genocide, Death, Blood, Murder, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Self harm, Torture, and Medical content

Minor: Rape, Sexual violence, and Sexual assault

katvou's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Torture, Animal death, Alcohol, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual content, Death, Violence, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Moderate: Emotional abuse, War, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Medical content, and Gore

Minor: Vomit, Slavery, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Rape, Pregnancy, and Sexual violence

allyareads's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Grief, Body horror, Classism, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Medical content, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Murder, and Sexism

Minor: Rape

soniajoy98's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cursing, Death of parent, Alcohol, Body horror, Death, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual content, Slavery, War, and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse, Medical content, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Rape, Animal death, Torture, Animal cruelty, Child death, and Confinement

Minor: Emotional abuse and Kidnapping

swonders_'s review

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Torture, Self harm, Murder, Gore, Abandonment, Violence, War, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Vomit, Sexual violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Sexual content, Trafficking, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Slavery and Grief