Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

A Touch of Malice by Scarlett St. Clair

22 reviews

wrensreadingroom's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Car accident, Child death, Sexual assault, Confinement, Grief, Animal death, Blood, Cursing, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Murder, Self harm, Sexism, Outing, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Stalking, Toxic friendship, War, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infertility, Kidnapping, Medical content, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Abandonment, and Alcohol

beckyremillard's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, War, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Murder, and Sexual assault

busbycourt's review

adventurous dark mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.25

Very sexual

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Violence, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

frantically's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Brought me back what I missed in the second book! The combination between plot & smut/romance was so much more graceful (where before the plot honestly just felt a bit unnecessary) and I feel like we've finally gotten to action-filled parts, especially with that ending! Hades and Persephone were so sweet in this book and I love that their wasn't a lot of drama in their own relationship, just drama from outside. I don't want to spoil anything but gosh, that one plot point just made go 🥰🥰🥰. This is such a fun & intriguing universe and I'd love books about more of the other gods (who am I kidding, I just have a massive crush on Hecate).

I just remembered that I hoped we'd see more of Hades' criminal underworld and while that didn't happen in a big extent we got dark!/spicy!Hades instead and honestly I'm not mad about that. I do wish Hades was more involved in the plot sometimes tho! Hades & Persephone often give off Ken & Barbie vibes, with him just being there to worship her (but also not really complaining here) (need myself a man like that)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death of parent, Grief, Death, Kidnapping, Vomit, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Sexual content, and Murder

Moderate: War, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Alcoholism, Car accident, and Confinement

Minor: Abortion and Suicide

ewarde's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

4.5

3rd book. Best book. I devoured the first two books as well, but this one takes the cake. The pace was quick and just kept you wanting more. She leaves us on a major cliffhanger, so I can't wait for the release of the 4th book in September!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Death

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Stalking, Rape, Sexual assault, Kidnapping, and Sexual harassment

macykey's review

dark funny reflective medium-paced

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

3.25

I loved seeing Persephone’s journey through this book, this is my favorite of her books so far. I also love all of the lore and that we have more interactions with other gods. But for the love of all things good and holy, the amount of sex in this book was way too much. Half of the sex scenes could’ve been removed and it would’ve cut out 50 pages. There are some that seem like they will be adding to the story and serving a purpose, but then the purpose is never served. I cannot wait for Hades perspective. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, War, Sexual content, and Murder

Moderate: Kidnapping and Vomit

eleek0609's review

adventurous challenging dark hopeful tense medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Death, Death of parent, Stalking, War, Infertility, Kidnapping, Sexual assault, Vomit, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual violence, Violence, Misogyny, Sexual content, Grief, Blood, and Cursing

Moderate: Alcohol, Child death, and Alcoholism

kamross's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

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

2.5

Tbh, this book was hard to get through. The end had me on my toes, but up until then it was a chore. There was a ton of repetition (esp. in the smutty scenes), which made it feel really boring. I loved her book King of Battle and Blood, so I'm just not sure how this series got so far away from that.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Murder, Rape, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Death of parent, Sexual content, Stalking, Death, Gore, Sexual assault, and Torture

Minor: Alcoholism, Mental illness, Addiction, and Infertility

mali33102's review

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.0

I would say that this book out of the three is the one that seemed to drag the most for me. It was majority plot focused, with very little development between Hades and Persephone. They just kept saying the same stuff to each other, so none of it was really new. I appreciated the fact that Persephone was given

a very visceral subplot of healing from the trauma of sexual assault and attempted rape. It was hard to read, but it made the book a lot more real.

The end was also a let-down. I really wish there wasn't such a major plot-twist and plot change within the last couple pages.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

karambit's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Body horror, Sexual violence, Torture, Death, Blood, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Self harm, War, Infertility, Alcoholism, Cursing, Gore, Confinement, Gun violence, and Misogyny

Minor: Infidelity, Vomit, Ableism, and Pregnancy