Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

Haunting Adeline by H.D. Carlton

137 reviews

crazyhatocean's review against another edition

It was mostly cringey even for a dark fantasy. It feels like someone watched too much bad stalker porn and transcribed it into a novel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Trafficking, Stalking, Murder, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Child abuse and Pedophilia

aobenstine's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense

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

1.0

This book is horrible in all ways, don’t waste your time

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

ar__reads's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Stalking, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

noonchi's review against another edition

challenging dark fast-paced

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

1.0

Cheesy, try-hard dialogue from a book desperately trying to convince us that it is cool and edgy when this is a rape fantasy. A tacky and tasteless book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

ebunny_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Infidelity, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Stalking, Car accident, Murder, and Gaslighting

c_e_w's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative 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? It's complicated

0.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Trafficking, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

fairyfluffcake's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.0

Undeniably erotic but also undeniably disturbing. I like morally grey characters but I don't like female characters being bullied or forced into submission and then made to look like they're grateful for it. It was missing something earlier in the book to make it clear how and why Adeline was a manipulator and how and why Zade was in fact playing with Adeline's kinky enjoyment for being scared. Without that, it was just porn and worse, reinforced the idea that a woman doesn't really mean it when she says 'no'. Their relationship was obviously the main focus of the book, the rest of the plot was very predictable crime thriller and unconvincing government conspiracy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Torture, and Kidnapping

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Pedophilia, and Trafficking

_adelete_'s review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

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

0.25

It's awful 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Stalking, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

smilingsammie's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Death, Gore, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexism, Sexual violence, Torture, Blood, Trafficking, Car accident, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Gore, Gun violence, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Cannibalism, and Death of parent

ent0mbed's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

0.25

⇢ 0.25 star

 DNF - 58%

 “All I want to do is break her. Shatter her into pieces. And then arrange those pieces to fit against my own. I don’t care if they don’t fit—I’ll fucking make them.”

I knew I would hate this book before I bought it — honestly I only got it so I could talk shit — and I was proven correct.

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I would like to start by saying am all for a good dark romance but this is just lacking the romance ( as well as consent ). The most romantic thing he did was leave roses for her. Like that is literally it.
DARK ROMANCE = ROMANCE WITH DARK CONTENT!!

And I do not want a single person saying ‘it’s just fiction’ because these things happen in real life. And when fiction starts to taint your real life values it clearly is no longer ‘just fiction’

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 ⇢ Adeline —

Her character has literally no personality whatsoever .

She admits to what Zade doing to her being SA, yet her character continues to be with him. She is quite literally just a lump of flesh that does whatever he wants. I am so fed up of seeing shallow female characters within dark romance.

I also hate how  ‘perfect’ she is. Like having a good pair of tits, ass and a flat stomach. Don’t get me wrong I wish I had allat, but it’s like does it have to be that way ?


 ⇢ Zade —

Zade rescues people from human trafficking rings. And for what ? Because he has some god complex.
How can you be that hypocritical as well. He’s just as shitty as the men he tortures.

Also I feel his whole sex trafficking saviour thing is literally added so we can say one decent thing about this man.

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 NOW FOR THE SMUT …. It was crap!

Truth be told I only read this book for the spice — as I heard much about it — and it was appalling. Like I wrote better in my Harry styles fan fiction as a 12 year old, sorta appalling.

First of all, the gun scene. I’m my opinion it had potential if Adeline actually consented to any of it … oh and if it wasn’t terribly written.

And as for the famous — very over hyped — house of mirrors scene.
The concept is hot and heart racing … but the execution was boring. I felt no thrill when reading that scene. Infact I was tempted to just skip it because I got bored as fuck.

Even worse was the dirty talk. Utterly horrific. I had to put the book down so many times because I cringed so hard at it.

 “As much as I hate to say this to you, I am no stranger to a woman’s pussy and what it feels like when it weeps for me.”

EWW! If a man ever said that to me I’d dry up like the Sahara desert in an instant. This man is supposed to be some sex God and is saying shit like THAT.

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And lastly is my opinion that this Book is pretty much just Q-anon smut. For example Zade literally going by Z … like Q! 

Finally, I always would end a review with ‘no hate’ but honestly I take that back for this review. Because if you can write a book and romanticise this shit in it I have no respect for you

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Trafficking, and Stalking

Moderate: Gore

Minor: Misogyny