Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Court of Sun by Lexi Ryan

16 reviews

louisa_pennyfeather2021's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Moral of the story, it's spelled "Man"ipulation for a reason. Brie deserves an Anti-hero arc. I support women's rights, but more importantly I support women's wrongs.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Classism, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Fire/Fire injury, and Misogyny

Moderate: Abandonment, Child abuse, Drug use, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Racism, Sexual content, War, Confinement, Gaslighting, and Murder

helpme71's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Toxic relationship, Slavery, Fire/Fire injury, and Violence

Moderate: Cursing, Torture, Sexual content, and Gore

bookishflower's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

2.75

This is a shameless a court of thorns and roses fan fiction, don’t believe me? You have the blond, spring prince and the dark, tattooed, dream wandering, shadow prince both fighting over the chosen one human girl who must free the lands from a curse. And surprise, surprise,

Sebastian/Tamlin is manipulative and evil.

Whatever team you’re on, I’m team single Brie! Give her a villain arc, let her

steal back her crown and get her revenge on everyone who manipulated her. Subvert the genre.

. The representation isn’t great, and the description of the goblins errs on problematic (while this is historic and not a new invention by Ryan,  not researching the history of antisemitism in depictions of goblins-especially after the discussions around j.k. Row*ing-feels sloppy). (However, I should add I am not a Jewish reviewer and you should always listen to own voice reviewers. If I am wrong please correct me). That being acknowledged, this is a fun guilty pleasure book, perfect for fans of acotar and those looking to get out of a reading slump. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Murder, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Slavery, Homophobia, and Trafficking

kinsportch's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Wow. Just wow. Amazing characters and amazing storyline. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Kidnapping, Murder, and Slavery

Moderate: Death of parent, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment

Minor: Alcohol, Gaslighting, Homophobia, and War

elderflower's review against another edition

relaxing fast-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? It's complicated

1.75

disappointed ☹️ 
Likes: 

• Hot romance and love interests
• Worldbuilding 
• Love triangle 
• Gorgeous cover

Dislikes: 

• Brie seemed to be “not like other girls” and was pretty annoying 
• Pretty cliché 
• Came across like it was trying hard to be cool but just succeeded at being annoying 
• Boring start
• Didn’t really capture my attention or feelings 
• Romantic pacing was jumpy and weird 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Cursing, Homophobia, Slavery, and Emotional abuse

more content warnings: drugged drink, cheating, guilt trips, manipulation

kenziewol's review against another edition

adventurous challenging medium-paced

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

4.5

Very much ACOTAR vibes but not necessarily in a bad way. The story was interesting and kept my attention, especially the second half of the book. I did think the first bit was a little on the slower side but once it picks up it’s hard to want to put it down. There are quite a few twists that I didn’t see coming, especially the ending, that had me zooming through this book and are the main reason I enjoyed it so much. I also unexpectedly didn’t mind the love triangle vibes as much as I thought I would.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Minor: Abandonment