Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

Blood and Ash - Liebe kennt keine Grenzen: Jennifer L. Armentrouts Weltbestseller in prachtvoller Deluxe-Ausstattung mit spektakulärem Farbschnitt. Roman by Jennifer L. Armentrout

98 reviews

ladyxochi's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 28%

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Too slow-paced for my liking. Too much focus on romance and sexuality. Too sadistic characters. Main character being suppressed.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Body shaming, Emotional abuse

octopus18's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body shaming, Child death, Grief, Death of parent

Minor: Domestic abuse

glddstwmn's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional mysterious sad 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

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Check TWs before reading!! Graphic descriptions of abuse and gore. 

UGH, my heart hurts a little after this one. :(

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexism, Sexual violence, Violence, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War

Minor: Rape

larremor's review against another edition

2.0

adventurous dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Writing was okay, not a ton of world building, it takes most of the book to really get clued in to the "species", and the male lead has difficulty understanding consent. Making things sexual after Poppy says no to various acts and situations multiple times in the book while convincing her it's okay because he's decided she wants it even though she's conflicted. "I'm not sure" isn't consent and get off, stop definitely isn't consent.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence

Moderate: Body shaming, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment

vettechmama3's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

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I got into this book very quickly. I was excited to dive into another fantasy series and intrigued from the get go. Our MFC Poppy is a Maiden set to ascend and is a secret baddie with weapons. Our MMC Hawke was, meh. At first I liked him so much. I thought him and Poppy had great chemistry, and I loved their banter. But then he started to give creepy vibes and also had a hard time with understanding consent. It also took a long time to learn what ascending even was at all and that this was also basically a vampire/werewolf book. I definitely was imagining things wrong the entire time because of little and slow context. I did enjoy the book as a whole, though, and I'm curious enough to keep going with the series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Blood, Religious bigotry

Moderate: Body shaming, Child death, Confinement, Torture, Grief, Death of parent

Minor: Abandonment

taobooks's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Sexual content, Blood, Grief, Gaslighting

Moderate: Torture, Violence

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Religious bigotry, Sexual harassment

selestre's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: N/A

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Minor: Child death, Confinement, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Sexual harassment

dlsmk's review against another edition

3.5

slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

razalicious's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Blood, Murder, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail

peninsula_reader's review against another edition

2.75

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Didn’t dislike it as much as I thought I would. It was enjoyable in some parts, some it’s just eh. Some spicy scenes, but I’m also not one for books that hang their hat on just having spicy material to get people to read. I think the plot will be more prevalent in the next one? Interested enough to listen to book 2, not sure on the whole series yet. We’ll have to see!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Murder, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail