Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

Corrupt by Penelope Douglas

18 reviews

_kaylareads's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Rape

Minor: Sexual assault, Stalking, Death, Domestic abuse, Addiction, Slavery, Fire/Fire injury, and Drug use

antidietleah's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Car accident, Sexual assault, Kidnapping, Grief, Gun violence, Cursing, Bullying, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, and Death of parent

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, Animal death, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, and Rape

Minor: Incest

ephemeral_remi's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Violence, Alcohol, Blood, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, Car accident, Child abuse, Classism, Rape, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, and Toxic friendship

jesshart8's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Gaslighting, Sexual content, Bullying, Classism, Misogyny, Stalking, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

roseamillerg's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Misogyny, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Animal death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Body shaming, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Stalking, Alcohol, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual harassment, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

zc2's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring mysterious 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

4.5

I didn’t like how

micheal never apologizes to her like it was a really traumatizing event and he straight up was like huh that sucks wanna make out? end

the whole tense plot of why are they in jail and why is it Rikas fault really had me on edge wondering what’s gonna happen next. Recommend if you like romantic thrillers!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Cursing, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Drug abuse, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Murder, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Car accident, Confinement, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Toxic friendship, Violence, Genocide, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

ecravens's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Car accident, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Bullying, Child abuse, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Pedophilia, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Violence

al4ssandra's review against another edition

dark emotional tense 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Domestic abuse, Sexism, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

quietmarki's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Car accident, Adult/minor relationship, Gore, Misogyny, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Animal death, Sexism, Sexual assault, Classism, Death of parent, Infidelity, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Sexual content, and Toxic friendship

jen1804's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

This book is an absolute rollercoaster. I read it within 24 hours because it just got me totally hooked. This is a very dark and twisted romance with a lot of dark and twisted sexual content thrown in. Alongside that is a really interesting and mysterious narrative with P Douglas flitting between the present day and the past, keeping the reader engaged and wanting to find out more about what happened three years go. Despite how fucked up the characters are in this book, I actually really dig them? I love that I can get lost in this dark fantastical story which is full of the type of guys I’ve been taught from a young age to avoid, all from the the safe confines of my own reading space. I am very much looking forward to reading the rest of the series and exploring the rest of the four horsemen’s stories.
Drops points because some of that shit I read was disturbing and also because of the high number of spelling/grammatical errors! Penelope, get a new editor girl.
Satisfactory ending? Yes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, Alcohol, Blood, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Car accident, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Grief, Rape, and Animal death