Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

The Crown of Gilded Bones by Jennifer L. Armentrout

12 reviews

geminisoul's review

adventurous dark emotional funny 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

5.0

The plot.... emaculate. The romance...... enticing. These things really make this book a five for me. Just like in the second book they really make up for some of the writing that can start to pull me from the story. Sometimes some of the ways characters choose to say certain things seems off for the setting of the book. And I understand...... she has questions but why is it brought up AND responded to every 2 minutes. Occasionally is funny but after a while it can be too much. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Torture and War

Minor: Rape and Sexual assault

glddstwmn's review against another edition

adventurous funny sad tense medium-paced

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

2.0

This would be camp if it wasn't sincere. 

I feel like there was so much potential for a good story and it was completely wasted. 
I enjoyed the basis of the plot and the conflicts I felt made sense to the story line, but good lord, the dialogue is some of the worst I've ever read. Genuinely  Ive read ao3 fanfics written better than this. Everytime I started to think the story was getting good or it was redeeming itself, the dialogue ruined it. 

Idk how Casteel puts up with Poppy but honestly he is just as insufferable. All the characters personalities are flat, Poppy is "nOt liKe oThEr GiRls", a huge pick-me, and everyone just eats it up??

It took me until a few chapters into this book that there are two guys "Malec/k", I thought she was misspelling the name the entire series. Also both opposing queens names are too similar and it was confusing. These are all side characters that are only talked about we don't really meet them throughout the story so I felt that made it more confusing. 

The ending was a cop out, imo. once the twist happened in chapter 46, I just skipped ahead to the last chapter and read from there. 

I was really hoping that since they were married now, there would be some good smutty scenes but there was like 3? 4? and they were mid at best. 

Tbh, I think I'm avoiding this author from now on. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Violence, Blood, Grief, Gaslighting, and War

Moderate: Confinement, Infertility, Sexual content, Torture, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Car accident, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Classism

abicaro17's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

God this series has tanked for me. Like every other chapter had some sort of "major" revelation. I needed some consistency this book could not provide. The overused trope of Poppy being relatively innocent is getting old as hell too. I do enjoy how badass Poppy is and how much she is growing physically and emotionally but I swear this next book has to be better because I BARLEY made it through these last 50 pages. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

cait's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

000eleonora000's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Blood, and War

Moderate: Torture

Minor: Cursing

valli_alti04's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Blood, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

kisforknijn'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? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse

g_monaghan's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional slow-paced

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

3.0

Political strife
Identity politics
Family trees
Very slow beginning and middle, great ending but poorly paced overall
Too much time spent on world building and not enough time building tension around key plot points

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Violence

nadiana's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

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

2.5

1.4 stars

Everything just falls into the lap of the main character.

Wanna marry a husband who would kill his own family for you even though you've barely gotten to know each other? Be my guest. Want to become queen of Antarctica? Take the fucking crown and get really aggressive and self-righteous if anyone in the kingdom ever objects. Want to be a literal God? Here! Have it and all of the combined powers of the world!

Jesus Christ is this ever a horribly bad self-insert fanfiction. 

Also this book is very dialogue heavy when it definitely doesn't have to be. By the time one character spends 10 pages explaining something to our Y/N insert you could've just as easily explained it through action, not dialogue. And wanna know what the crazy thing is? You still have no idea what is happening to the plot 99.9% of the time even though information is practically being spoon-fed to you. I thought Gods and deities were synonymous but apparently, plot twist, they're not??? 

//Author's note: The MC is not just a deity, she's a God... okay!! Get that through your thick skulls! Gods are more epic and cool and they glow silver and there're Gods who are even above other Gods but Y/N is a descendent of those Gods too so she's like the most powerful being out there. And oh, she has a dragon army now and can bring people from the dead// 

Casanova Steele is still as annoying as ever and Poopy does whatever the plot calls her to do. More things happened in this book compared to the last, however, which is why I'm giving it a slightly higher score than the previous installment in the series. 

I'm so happy Audible has a refund option bc I really did not enjoy this book for the right reasons. I loved to hate it, I loved to imagine how the book could've been even slightly better than what was presented to me, and for that, I'll give this book some props. Some average-rated 5-star prediction books haven't come close to garnering this much passion out of me. Is it better written than average-garbage ACOMAF? No, but it's hella enjoyable to make fun of.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Abandonment

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, and Death of parent

msta9789's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-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? Yes

5.0

I cried so hard at the end when Casteel was taken. I loved him so much and there's still 8 months left  until TWOTQ release

goodness. i um... i don't know what to say. i really loved this book. except the end. I cried so hard. anyways.  8 months until TWOTQ RELEASE!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Violence, and Kidnapping