Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Paper Princess by Erin Watt

3 reviews

2blueshoes's review

dark emotional mysterious 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

2.0

It’s YA novel trope bingo, folks! Get out your cards! As usual, we have traumatized teens acting like traumatized adults, a relationship rife with red flags, and a girl pursuing an emotionally unavailable guy. Add in weirdly troubling sexual sibling rivalry, the glorification of violence as foreplay, rich kids being rich kids, and over the top high school bullying - and we’ve got a clean sweep. 

I’m not going to tell you that I wasn’t glued to every page. This book is a litany of everything my empowered adult-self knows to avoid, and everything my sixteen year old self was taught to love in a book. Reading it was like watching a horrifying car crash happen and not being able to look away. Sia would be proud. #cheapthrills 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Bullying, Sexual harassment, and Sexual content

Minor: Blood

kathrinellis's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious 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? Yes

4.0

Nicht der beste Schreibstil oder die kreativste Geschichte, aber für mich zu dem Zeitpunkt passend und mit einigen unerwarteten Twists - aber auch voller Klischees. Dennoch schön zum Träumen! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Bullying, Cancer, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Vomit

ieryka_magic's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad 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? It's complicated

Ok. I have never written a review before so I'm sorry if it's hard to understand. BUT. THIS. GODDAMN. BOOK. Mentally scarred me.
The book (and the series) is a literal Wattpad mafia mets the rich bad boy fanfiction and (as someone who used to eat that shit every day) it makes me sick to the core to know that *this* is considered ok to be published. Honestly? It would've been a *great* idea if it kept the "plot", but turned the message from "this is totally ok and not toxic" to "this behaviour is not ok, but everybody can change. Therapy and other professionals are there for you. And if they don't change, leave them. Also, *CONSENT*??? HELLO??? YOU THERE?" 
To think that this book went through so many hands before it was published and IT STILL WENT TROUGHT. If someone, anyone, girl, boy, non binary, teen, child, adult or elder reads this review, please know that this kind of behaviour is toxic, not ok and dangerous.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Homophobia, Incest, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Don't read. Not worth it.