Reviews with content warning for Kidnapping - King of Flesh and Bone

If you can make it past the 25% mark, there's an actual story.

To get there... you have to read a lot of rape. It's not too visceral in terms of the lasting harm, but it's a lot. The "sex" scenes are definitely detailed.

It's a decent telling of the gross parts of mythology that are glossed over. Gods are often horrible, abusive, assholes who don't accept that humans have the right to autonomy.

Enoch starts to soften somewhat, but with the ending who knows what will happen.

It was decently told. I do want to read the next one.

I couldn't recommend it to anyone. Too many CWs for that to feel like anything but a cruelty, but if you're interested, I'd say try it out.

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drduck's review against another edition

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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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bloodybella's review against another edition

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challenging dark mysterious tense fast-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? It's complicated

4.75

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mollyjeansutter's review against another edition

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5.0

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lalysva's review against another edition

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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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lucindanorine's review against another edition

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dark emotional tense 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

3.25

I saw this book on tiktok and immediately wanted to read it. And once I saw the audiobook on netgalley I requested it and was so excited when it hit my library! I loved this book, it took me a little longer to get into it. But I did enjoy it and I'm excited for book two

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reverieparacosm's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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blueee7777's review against another edition

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dark medium-paced

3.5

ML is god of death and ppl basically, FL is human who captured his heart. she is feisty and sticks to her word. she is called unwomen bc she can’t have kids but she is a talented midwife. (i read this book bc of booktok, they told me he breaks her legs to keep her from leaving, (he did it was good.) so yeah it’s pretty good) it ends on a cliffhanger so i’m gonna read the second one rn.

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