Reviews tagging 'Sexism'

Brutal Prince by Sophie Lark

9 reviews

kharri13's review against another edition

dark funny fast-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

3.25

Was getting into until callum was weird during the shower scene and it kind of soured for me. She can do better than him

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Blood, Sexual content, Sexism, Gun violence, Cursing, and Classism

Moderate: Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Racial slurs

witchleaves's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

Terrible book. Awful characters, and dry writing. The plot was interesting but the story itself left nothing in me to want more of the story. Every character sucks.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism

Moderate: Gaslighting, Fatphobia, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Alcohol, Blood, Cultural appropriation, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Sexism, Stalking, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Rape, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

natafiguu's review against another edition

i do not recommend this at all, literally do not read this.its just. so bad. everything about it. i genuinely cannot think of a thing i like about this book. the characters are flat stereotypes, the women aren't allowed to do shit and are seen as possessions, and don't get me started with the weird shit about the wax? that's where i stopped reading, i literally just can't anymore. i think that was about four chapters in, but i haven't seen such lackluster writing before. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Violence, Sexism, Death of parent, and Alcohol

booksalacarte's review against another edition

tense fast-paced

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

2.0

Brutal Prince- 2⭐️ 3.25🌶️

Mafia Romance

Dual POV

Arranged marriage

True Enemies to lovers

Forced proximity

Bully moments

Age gap (10 years)

After a public incident between their children, 2 mafia fathers make a deal to have them marry to unite rival families.

I didn’t love the FMC. She came off as an immature and childish character for most of the book. My biggest issue was the strawberry allergy incident. Having a kid with a food allergy, I am very against allergies being used as a prank. Who the hell doesn’t take food allergies seriously?! The girl would have never been forgiven by me… And it’s on the cover? So is this the big draw to the book? Nope. That’s not tomboy/hellcat behavior. That attempted murder. And she doesn’t even think of the implications her actions would have on her family… ever.

Honestly the MMC wasn’t any better. He came off chauvinistic and depreciated the FMC, and women he dated in general… it was gross. Also, he was a 30 year old, living at home having his every thought taken care of by a housekeeper, chef and his parents.

This book wasn’t very lovey-Dovey. It was more enemies than lovers… well except that there were 4+ spicy scenes. So there was a bunch of lust.

There wasn’t and true character development. Nothing to show any growth. The main characters just stayed pretty flat while the plot raced through a bunch of quickly concluded plot points. 

Thank you NetGalley and Sourcebooks bloom books for the advanced reader copy in exchange for an honest review.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Bullying, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Classism, Stalking, Gaslighting, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Gun violence, Sexual harassment, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Classism, Racial slurs, Pregnancy, Medical content, and Gore

whrohala's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

3.5

Mixed feelings on this one. By the end I really liked the relationship dynamic between the two MCs, and how that developed, but I DID NOT like the characters in the first 1/3 of the book. Particularly Callum. He was super inconsistent and the character we met at the beginning was essentially a different character from the one we see later on. 

To be fair - I listened to this on Audio, and I think that the actor chosen to play Callum really hurt this book. His read was stiff, almost robotic, and it repeatedly took me out of the story and was super distracting.  

I have heard good things about Sophie Lark, so I'm going to try giving the next book in the series a try (I have already confirmed that it is different voice-actors if I go the audio route) or I may take a look at another book/series of hers all-together. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Gun violence, Violence, and Sexism

valeria_gzz's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny fast-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

3.75

3,75 stars because I liked this but I think I’ll like other heroes better, so I’m starting off low to go higher. I’ve really been underestimating kindle unlimited books. I liked the characters and then the plot started to get good, and I became interested in that too so this was fun. Also I think I like enemies to lovers when they both give as much as they can take but then they’re like oh shoot I went too far and the other person goes too far as well and it’s kinda funny.
 
 This was INSANELY hot 🥵 and omfg I just about died of laughter when I read the extra scene where Aida was dressed as

Poison Ivy and she said her kiss was poisonous and Cal was like “I know I remember our wedding”

I feel like this had (in the mafia aspect of it) what Mariana Zapata wanted to have in Under Locke.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Sexism, Kidnapping, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual content, and Stalking

sofiarmz13's review against another edition

dark emotional funny slow-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Stalking, and Violence

Moderate: Alcohol, Blood, Cursing, Gore, Murder, and Physical abuse

Minor: Torture

cinnamnhoney's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

1.5

There's an age gap (older man, young woman) and explicit mentioning of grooming. There's violence, attempts at murder and SA, and

the male love interest at one point finds that almost drowning his fiance is sexy

. There are BDSM themes but zero mentions of clearly stated consent, safewords, or aftercare. Also, the female main character seems very "I'm not like other girls" which made reading from her perspective a little annoying.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Bullying, Cursing, Violence, Toxic relationship, Torture, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Misogyny, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, and Fire/Fire injury

emily_clay's review against another edition

adventurous funny medium-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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Stalking, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Murder, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Infertility, Gun violence, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Death, and Confinement

Moderate: Sexism

Minor: Medical content