Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

Throne of the Fallen by Kerri Maniscalco

9 reviews

straybutterfly's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious 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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Mental illness, Gore, Child death, Sexism, Misogyny, Blood, Classism, Cursing, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Abandonment, Death, Death of parent, and Alcohol

edilyaaang's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-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? It's complicated

4.0

It was enjoyable enought. Though there were times were I got super frustrated on what was happening, especially how the two MLs can never cooperate enought to focus on the game at hand. It made me want to throttle them both from time to time. But other than that, I enjoyed it. Enought to make me curious about the author's other works

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Gaslighting, Genocide, Gore, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Blood, Death, Emotional abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexual violence, Torture, Vomit, Dementia, Cannibalism, Confinement, Bullying, Infidelity, and Kidnapping

witcheep's review against another edition

adventurous emotional lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

The book is... fine, I guess. The plot of riddles in a high-stakes game is intriquing, especially when it involves reluctant allies each withholding their own secrets but still slowly warming up to each other. However, the plot gets put on the back burner very often in favor for emphasizing the main characters constantly lusting over each other.

This makes the smut feel so mundane it becomes a boring diversion from the actual plot and meaningful interactions between the main characters. If the smut was rarer in the book, it would feel more meaningful and make the story more balanced.

For added shock-value, there is meaningless violence, torture, and other possibly triggering events to cause diversion for the MCs from the main game in the plot. This dampened my enjoyment of the book.

If you are looking for a book with a nice premise for plot, interesting characters, but main focus on smut, you'll find a great match here.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Kidnapping, Misogyny, Blood, Body horror, Classism, and Murder

Minor: Cannibalism

bookcrushin's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

4.0

Well if you weren't expecting the princes of sin to be very very spicy (mature) you would be so very wrong. I have read all of Kerri's previous books as an adult, and I love the way she writes and I knew, knew this spinoff series was ADULT, but my tame YA reading heart was still in shock a little bit. Yes, I read some romance, but not a lot, so it was still a bit of "looking around can anyone else hear my audiobook?" moments LOL. I really enjoyed the story and the twist! Wasn't expecting that at all. Very enjoyable, you don't have to read The Kingdom of the Wicked trilogy first to enjoy the more mature spinoff, but it is nice & helpful setting the world up. Again, I will be reading more of the Princes of Sin, and I will be more prepared for the heavy mature subject matter. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Misogyny, Blood, Death, and Violence

haley_mil_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Blood, Violence, Sexism, Misogyny, Gore, and Child death

Moderate: Death of parent

lucindahoi's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Torture, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Murder, Blood, Death, and War

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Alcohol

Minor: Sexual harassment, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Sexism, and Stalking

soniajoy98's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious 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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Abandonment, Alcohol, Death, Sexual assault, Gore, Murder, Sexual violence, Violence, Cursing, Blood, and Sexual content

Moderate: Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Child death, Kidnapping, Suicide, Grief, Body horror, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Fire/Fire injury, and Physical abuse

Minor: Domestic abuse, Mental illness, and Vomit

britwalsh16's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

5.0

The amount of tabs I have in this book is ridiculous!!! I just LOOOOVE Camilla & Envy!! And the sass!!! Camilla is so sassy, I love it!! She gives it right back to Envy, beating him at his own games! 💚
The twists & turns in this book were incredible too! Some I saw coming, some that took me completely by surprise! 
And all the references from Kingdom Of The Wicked! And the jealousy between Envy & Camilla is on point! I can’t get enough of it! I already want to reread it! 
In the words of Kerri herself..
"For those who can’t help falling for the villain and love a sinfully wicked fairy tale, this one is for you."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Death, Misogyny, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Torture, Abandonment, and Confinement

Minor: Kidnapping and Death of parent

laylareadsthings's review

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I adore the Kingdom of the Wicked series, and especially loved the (under)world-building that trilogy set up. The demon princes are a wild time, and diving into Envy’s book was such a ride. This book is definitely more adult than YA, but I think also keeps a lot of the whimsy and fun that only YA fantasy worlds can weave. 

This is a behemoth of a book, but the plot and pacing are great. Pauses to breathe where it needs to, and doesn’t waste time info dumping or describing something if it’s not necessary to keep the story going. I’m intrigued by literally every new side character who’s introduced and cameos from the KotW trilogy feel organic and serve to further the story and Envy’s character. 

I was hooked into the romance from the first barbs exchanged between these two. I laughed out loud more than once. I would fold so fast in a relationship like this, I can’t take the slightest HINT of a tease, but omg what FUN to read these two just ruthlessly go after each other haha. Games on games were played, and I loved it. Envy is nothing if not a mastermind and so it takes someone with just as cunning a brain and more than enough strength of character to match that. 

I’d give this book only a 1.5 - 2 on the spice scale, but look I read A LOT of spice so my scale might be skewed 😅. 

The reveal of Camilla’s true character was really the only hiccup here for me. In any book, I really do despise a conflict that could have been resolved or addressed at literally any point in time during the book with a conversation, and so for about 10 pages at the 90% mark I wanted to just scream non stop. You can guess fairly early on what Camilla is, but there was such richness to her back story, I think I would have been more impacted by it if there had been more breadcrumbs along the way. No time is wasted wrapping it up though, and the resolution is believable.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Death of parent, Misogyny, and Sexual content

Minor: Blood, Gore, Murder, Torture, and Violence