Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Storm Front by Jim Butcher

6 reviews

travisdabis's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious fast-paced

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

4.75

Great book, excited to read more. The writing is a little bland at times but it's great when the characters voice shines through. Just a lovely modern (well, early 2000s) spin on noir detective and magic

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore

Moderate: Drug abuse, Murder, Sexual content, and Drug use

Minor: Addiction, Murder, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

necroplasm's review

adventurous dark funny mysterious 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? Yes

3.5

normally i quite enjoy grizzled sarcastic messy bitch detectives like harry dresden, but good LORD is this man constantly in need of a cold shower, it feels like for at least half the book every time a female character is in the scene he's using like,, the horniest descriptors he can use in a non-erotica novel, i nearly tapped out during his visit to that vampire woman's house because this guy is just TOO down bad. thankfully that stuff kinda slows down near the halfway point- at least it seemed like it did, maybe i was just getting used to it- and it wasn't as annoying to finish as i was afraid it would be. i'll check out the second book because i'm juuuuust interested enough in the setting to see where this could go, but GOD do i hope dresden starts being less of a horndog because i don't know if i can handle looking through his Womanizer Goggles for another book lmfao

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Blood, Murder, and Drug abuse

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Animal death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship

hauntthetale's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Violence, Body horror, and Emotional abuse

romamoody's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny hopeful inspiring medium-paced

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

5.0

Storm Front is the first of a series about a wizard named Harry Dresden. In this book, Dresden must face off against a newbie wizard who understands little about his true potential, but knows enough to cause a lot of ruckus for Dresden. In an attempt to help a young damsel in distress, Harry puts himself into the fire, literally, to save the day, and stop the bad guy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Death

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Gun violence, and Domestic abuse

sp2's review

funny tense fast-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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Violence

brigitte's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Infidelity, Sexual content, and Violence