Reviews tagging 'Sexism'

Corrupt by Penelope Douglas

51 reviews

valeskan's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Sexual content

Moderate: Cursing, Misogyny, Sexism, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Blood, Adult/minor relationship, and Death

sydneyluxford's review against another edition

challenging dark tense

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

2.0

I’m really scared.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Sexual harassment, Violence, Blood, Murder, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Bullying, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship

fa1ryts's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual harassment, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual violence, Torture, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Death, Gun violence, Kidnapping, and Misogyny

coligmueller's review against another edition

1.0

I enjoyed maybe 50 pages of this book, the rest is ridiculous.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, Death of parent, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic friendship, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Alcohol, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Violence, Addiction, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Kidnapping

dancinggnomes's review against another edition

3.5

um, why does everyone on booktok downgrade the amount of fucking creepiness in this -- i dont mean like a thriller, but like actual predatory, SA type of way. a lot of this book is fucking disgusting, especially more in the beginning and damon -- but in blocking out that shit, the romance between rika and michael is decent, still worryingly toxic but it's definitely not the worst thing to occur in this book. i seriously debated continuing on while i was in the first 100 or so pages, because no one told me just how fucked the horsemen are, the literally have serious problems, like i don't care if you were raised wealthy and groomed to perfection and decided you wanted to be different, do with your life as you so choose, but i don't know, maybe have some fucking hint of ethics and emotion!?!? it's giving toxic alpha male rich boy who uses hush money and manipulation when they so please. there were some inklings into their past that made me feel empathy for them, but it no way does that fucking justify their mentalities and actions -- definitely would search the CW before starting because this isn't just some little distant/enemies to lovers, or even a dark romance, it fully normalizes misogyny, assault, and overall creepy pedo behavior for a lot of this. that being said, my personal rating of 3.5 feels so weird because this book is atrociously disgusting for majority of it, dark romance is supposed to be more mystery~anger led, not actual crimes and threats/acts of assault. which is why i feel irked as to having been moderately entertained from time to time, NOT by the actual fucking parts of assault and genuine creepiness, but when they made romance scenes that didn't directly correlate with the problematic-ness of it all. in all, penelope douglas should maybe take a crash course on writing a dark romance not consisting of attempted/actual SA and generalized assault, readers should google CW beforehand, and the story has some scenes -- that if distanced from the other plot features -- are not totally, absolutely, wretchedly, disgusting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Blood, Cursing, Torture, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Rape, Misogyny, Fire/Fire injury, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, and Toxic relationship

100% search CW beforehand.

kaltenmark24's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Toxic relationship, Body horror, Child abuse, Violence, Death, Gore, Misogyny, Rape, and Sexism

liih's review against another edition

dark 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

1.0

 wtf is this pls

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Murder, Torture, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship

legendjunes's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

0.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Biphobia, Blood, Bullying, Car accident, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Hate crime, Gun violence, Incest, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Stalking, Torture, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Violence, and Vomit

mia1909's review against another edition

dark medium-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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Minor: Alcohol, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

namaya's review against another edition

challenging dark tense slow-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? It's complicated

0.25

What in the what wattpad story did I just force myself to read. This book was confusing from start to end and really, the only good thing was the writing. The plot was so confusing and I absolutely haded the characters. Warning: Erika is a weal character who thinks she’s different from other girls but all she does is let herself be controlled and manipulated by everyone around her. The time skips are really hard to keep up with so you don’t start understanding the conflict or even the plot until 85% into the book.

it was so obvious from the beginning Logan was the bad guy. I guess the only twist was exactly how they accomplished it

. Overall it was extremely cringey and I really had to force myself to get through it. Also TRIGGER WARNING FOR R**E!!!! It gets thrown around like nobody’s business and basically ignored by all the characters. The whole plan to get revenge on Erika was disgusting and sick and I cannot believe everyone just moved past it like nothing. The whole “Four Horsemen” thing was weird and confusing and makes me think the author is extremely out of touch with reality like seriously a group of 16 year olds in town getting away with blatant crimes and terrorizing the town while adults are too scared to stand up to them? *eye roll*
NEVER RECOMMEND TO ANYONE 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Stalking, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Bullying, Death of parent, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Pedophilia, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Animal death, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Torture