Reviews tagging 'Torture'

The Dragon and His Prince by Adara Wolf, R. Phoenix

3 reviews

whatthefridge's review against another edition

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dark emotional hopeful 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? Yes

4.0

Forced submission training, my beloved dark trope. 

Larkin is extremely naive to the point that it’s like his rose tinted glasses turn every red flag into just a flag. His rigid morality and intimacy issues are borderline autistic coded. The only thing missing is being too literal and having a weird relationship with food lol. 

The story tries very hard to convince me that Real Feelings happened, and to a certain extent they did. But Larkin and Jade were never vulnerable with each other emotionally while bonding in the cave, so the ramp up to them being in Love felt a little artificial.

Regardless, it was an enjoyable read, and I’m suuuuper curious about the next book after that epilogue. 
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cookiereadah's review

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dark
  • Loveable characters? No

1.0

Ugh! I This book would have been fine, not great but acceptable, without the
multiple SAs that added absolutely nothing to the story. I don’t understand the need to glorify the assaults but making them more graphic than the scenes between the MCs.

***You don’t heal SA by IMMEDIATELY having more sex!!! WTF was that?



Aside from that Larkin was stupid to be dumb. 
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readingtotravel's review

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

3.75

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