Reviews tagging 'Sexism'

Bound by Honor by Cora Reilly

11 reviews

rosereadsalot's review

4.0

This book was so fast paced and I flew through it! I can’t wait to see the other sisters get their own stories and I’m about to binge the rest of the series.

However, this book has the cheating trope!! It would have been 5⭐️ otherwise… but I hated the cheating and I hated how they talked about the girl after it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Murder, Vomit, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Suicide, Blood, Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Sexism, Torture, Sexual violence, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Body horror, Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, and War

geooo's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

1.0

Just trash. Everyone in this book was sexist, the amount of sexism and the poorly written characters, the lack of plot, the horrible writing, the fact that the mmc is a cheater make this book one of the worst books I read this year. A waste of time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism

hannibanani29's review against another edition

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Sexual content, Cursing, Infidelity, Gun violence, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Alcohol, Child abuse, Vomit, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Torture, and Violence

Minor: Suicide attempt, Medical content, Domestic abuse, Confinement, Suicide, Pregnancy, Grief, and Toxic relationship

samflowerv6's review against another edition

The lines of consent were so blurred and I just can’t get over how much I didn’t like Luca. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Emotional abuse, Sexual harassment, Classism, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, and Sexism

monirgzz's review against another edition

dark lighthearted mysterious fast-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Cursing, Gun violence, and Sexism

Minor: Alcohol, Child abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Medical content, Rape, Sexual harassment, and Suicide

alexhyder's review against another edition

dark

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism

Minor: Domestic abuse

elenamarmiroli's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Ho trovato questa lettura sorprendentemente intensa e piacevole, adatta per chi cercasse un dark romance, spicy, ma non troppo, abbastanza breve da leggere per passare il tempo.
Non è di sicuro la lettura più memorabile del secolo, ma risulta a mio parere estremamente appassionante sul momento, soprattutto grazie al fatto che la protagonista svolge anche lei una parte attiva nella storia.
Inoltre, ho apprezzato molto l'enfasi sul consento, che da un libro del genere non mi sarei mai aspettata.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Infidelity, Sexual content, Sexism, Sexual harassment, and Physical abuse

lanorton's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

2.0

4/5 spice lots of scenes that are well written. This book would have been a 4.5/5 stars if I had stopped before the last few chapters. I really liked their growth together and how they pushed each other. 

Then he sees no problem with not informing her weeks ago that her little sister was sold into a marriage. Also the big ending is I actually love you I don’t just want to Fuck you.

So yup ends on a fairly big Cliff hanger and not a great ending overall. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Vomit

danielle70's review against another edition

lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

This was a really fun book. It's not super depressing or emotional, just a good time. The couple worked really well together. If you like a very docile heroine and commanding hero, here's your book. I like more outspoken heroines with more sway over their man, but this was good too. The pacing was solid, I read this super fast and never got bored. The characters were solid too. I think if you like the whole innocent heroine thing and a morally gray hero whose only morally gray component is that you're told he's a big player in the mafia and he kills bad guys occasionally (but you never reeally see anything bad or outrageous), then you will absolutely love this. I promise I did enjoy this lol. I don't know how to get my point across. Basically, I had a lot of fun reading this. It's a super quick read. I loved the super close sister dynamic.

I loooooved the first 3/4 of this. I enjoyed all of it, but I have a very different personality from the heroine so maybe that's it, but she needed a bit more of a backbone in my opinion. I can suspend my disbelief but come on, no one bites their tongue that often. I also feel like the whole innocent/naive thing was a lil heavy-handed. It makes me uncomfortable after a minute when the heroine, who lives in modern-day Chicago doesn't know much at all about anything, especially someone who grew up in a mafia family. Sure, ok. I did really like her sister Gianna, so I'm pumped to her read her book. 

Tropes:

• mafia romance
• opposites attract
• shy/innocent heroine & grumpy/cynical hero
• super possessive hero
• the whole 'I hate that I love you' thing
• 'touch her and you die'
• hurt/comfort (not a lot, but it's there)
• 'I hate everyone but you'

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Sexism, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, and Sexual content

Spoilery content warnings: *death of a parent *heroine gets roofied and the creep who did it planned on assaulting her (but he didn't) *infidelity (they were newly married and barely knew each other so like they weren't emotionally involved yet, ya know?)

reveriesangel's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

i honestly can’t rate this. i have so many mixed feelings, most of them back, but at the same time i kinda wanna read the next book cause i want to see what gianna does

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism