Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Feather by Olivia Wildenstein

11 reviews

pinkfawn's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.25

 Enjoyed this one a lot, not sure how the series will go on after this one but looking forward to finishing the trilogy. 

+.25 for making me cry

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content

faith99's review against another edition

sad fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Death, and Gun violence

Moderate: Toxic friendship and Sexual content

Minor: Death of parent and Abandonment

siad's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring tense medium-paced

4.5

Leigh is a fledgling angel that needs to complete her feathers by helping sinners improve their soul score by influencing them to do good deeds. She needs to act fast and so she takes on a sinner with an extremely high score in order to win a lot of feathers and fast but things don’t go exactly to plan.


I know people hate spoilers but I really wish someone had spoiled it for me so I could decide if I should have read it or not


I really, really loved this book but I hated the ending which is why I took happy a start.

When I read a Romeo and Juliet retelling all I thought was enemies to lovers and forbidden love not that they’ll both die at the end. I now that this is a huge spoiler but I really wish someone had spoiled it to me before I got so attached to them. And in know technically the get reincarnated in the third book but I’ll probably won’t read that because their just not the same characters I fell in love with.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, and Sexual content

Moderate: Suicide and Murder

lakea's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-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: Suicide, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Body shaming, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Blood, Sexual harassment, Toxic friendship, and Suicidal thoughts

It’s literally modern day Romeo & Juliet dealing drug a mob boss and an angel. Murder and suicide is a given.

mybookishdelights's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

This book was fine. I liked it. I didn't love it though and I don't think I connected that much with the characters since the ending didn't make me cry. I'm slightly intrigued by the rest of the series, but don't really have any interest in continuing at the moment. It wasn't a waste of time though. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Violence, Blood, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Murder, and Gun violence

Moderate: Fatphobia, Toxic friendship, Grief, Death of parent, Body shaming, and Sexism

ka_ke's review against another edition

adventurous emotional lighthearted 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? Yes

5.0

Love. Love. LOVE this book. The ending would have made me cry if it wasn’t for my antidepressants. It’s a classic grumpy/sunshine romantic fantasy filled with touch her you die vibes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Violence, Death of parent, Misogyny, Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Murder, Religious bigotry, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Alcohol, Classism, Abandonment, Body shaming, Grief, Gore, and Gun violence

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide

suzanne28's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.0

An interesting retelling of Romeo and Juliet with angels and sinners. I loved all the French used and the Paris setting. Beautifully done. Our Romeo and Juliet were sometimes as hard to stomach as Shakespeare’s originals, so that was done well, though hard to read at times.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Sexual content, and Murder

Moderate: Alcohol

stardust_heidi's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Ultimately I loved this book. There were a few comments here and there kind of disparaging on certain groups of people, but in hindsight I think it was part of the whole "Celestial Purity" thing which basically

turned out to be a total farce.

 

I really liked Leigh and Celeste, Jarod and Mimi --

However, the relationship was almost too quickly developed for me. In the end, it's only over the course of a month or so, and I think it might have been better if it had been stretched out a bit. I understand some of the time constraints of the plot, but those could have been tweaked as well. That being said, it definitely fit the whole Romeo and Juliet mood with a quick romance and dual death situation at the end -- I clearly missed the R&J memo on this story, lmao. Because when I got to the end, I was like....wtf. No. Oh, and then Leigh once she got to Elysium -- I get that she got duped, but her obsessive "when Jarod gets her" bit was almost a smidge bit too much for me. I needed more fury and rage at the betrayal. Heartbreak finding out about Jarod's soul. I don't know, maybe I was anxious to be done? Or find out what happens?

I still rate it high despite the few things that made me raise an eyebrow. I'm easy to please. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Sexual content

Minor: Body shaming and Death of parent

ariel790's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-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

Totally fell for the main character- Leigh. She was totally personable and I could only wish the best for her as she decended into Jarod's life of crime. She is so sweet and somehow keeps her charm throughout the whole story, no matter what she chooses to do.

Olivia (the author) has a way with her writing, that once I picked this book up, I did not want to set it down. Even though the story does feature common tropes, the diverse world she set up and in depth character building is totally hers and is beautifully done.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Toxic friendship, and Sexual content

Minor: Torture, Suicide, Mental illness, and Gun violence

our_bookish_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This is my first romance read with sexual content and I just need to say, 
holy shit that was amazing! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Gun violence, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Alcohol, Blood, Death, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, and Suicide