Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

King of Flesh and Bone by Liv Zander

6 reviews

drduck's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Slavery, Death, Rape, Vomit, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

mixxroxy's review against another edition

The non-consensual parts of this book are absolutely overwhelming. The main lead obviously doesn't like it or want it but then it's written like she just can't help herself because it's just so good. And it's even worse because she's magically spelled/forced into doing things she doesn't want to. And that's not where things end. The "love interest" also viciously physically assaults her and she just sort of leans into the panes of his hard chest. As if having stacked muscles excuses your domestic violence and sexual assault.  The story seemed really interesting but I don't consider this romantic, a slow burn, or enemies to lovers. It's just straight assault (in every sense of the word) and not at all for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Rape, Toxic relationship, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Infertility, Slavery, and Body horror

Minor: Child death

christyjoreads's review against another edition

4.0

Dark, erotic, well-written.  This book is NOT for everyone

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Violence, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Slavery, and Sexual assault

ezrin's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Slavery, Gaslighting, and Rape

starrymoonflower's review

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Sexism, Domestic abuse, Rape, Slavery, and Infertility

Minor: Suicide

lalysva's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

1.0

Wow this was bad.

Now, I'm not squeamish and I don't have triggers. I love dark fantasy and horror. And I don't mind reading about sensitive topics.

But this was just disgusting and uncomfortable to read.
The content warning said dub-con, but this is plain old abuse and r*pe. 
Enosh literally uses Ada's body like a marionette puppet to pleasure himself. But it's okay, because she actually likes it, even though she struggles to resist? Hard pass from me 

You can include r*pe in stories and do it well, but this is just romanticizing a r*pist. After the first sex scene I lost all hope for the couple. Why would I cheer for a douchebag that forces himself on Ada? The only hope I'd have would be for her to kill him and find someone worthy.

I DNF'ed at 25% as this is the worst book I've read in years.

The only good thing I can say is that the world building with the zombies and Enosh' role is quite interesting, and I would have loved to read more of that if the characters weren't so awful.
The writing was okay, but the dirty talk was cringe worthy with some really poor word choices (seed anybody?).

Unless you're into r*pe erotica don't bother with this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Confinement, Death, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, and Torture