Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Bloodlines by Richelle Mead

11 reviews

micaela11's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape

asmaltz3's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, and Murder

Minor: Rape

noellelovesbooks's review

3.75

Content Warnings: violence, murder, death, bullying, and mention of rape.

Sydney was such a likeable character in TVA that I was excited to jump into her own spin off...especially knowing we would see so many familiar faces. 

Going from Rose's inner thoughts and her world where she was a dhampir high school student surrounded by fellow dhampir and moroi...to Sydney pretending to being in high school, unfamiliar with being so closely surrounded by so many dhampir/moroi was a fun switch up.

This first book took me a little to get into and felt like it bounced around quite a bit, plot wise, but I'm confident that I'll continue to enjoy this journey with Sydney!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Bullying, and Murder

Minor: Rape

veskumelooni's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Rape, Blood, Sexual assault, Body shaming, Death, and Murder

the_escapist's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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

Moderate: Mental illness, Fire/Fire injury, Confinement, Blood, Alcohol, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Bullying

Minor: Rape, Grief, and Emotional abuse

leahjanespeare's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

4.0

I'm glad Mead continued writing stories in this world! There is so much to explore. I liked (well not 'liked' exactly) meeting Sydney at the end of the VA series knowing her story would be next. I'm excited to learn more about the horrible (!!!) alchemist part of the society in there. Awful and patriarchal af, so can't wait till Sydney gets some revenge on that front. I'm also really looking forward to Adrian's character development, which we are already starting to see minor progress on. He deserves his HEA too (eventually)! A great mix of old side characters getting fleshed out, and the addition of some new ones of course too.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Toxic relationship and Rape

martamae77's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Religious bigotry, Misogyny, Violence, and Sexism

Minor: Rape, Fatphobia, and Body shaming

simba524's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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: Addiction and Alcoholism

Moderate: Eating disorder, Bullying, Body shaming, and Blood

Minor: Rape, Body horror, Death, Drug use, and Sexual assault

ducky047's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Rape

psydneigh's review against another edition

mysterious fast-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

This book was pretty slow in my opinion. I felt like this did a lot of the set up for the rest of the series as opposed to standing up as it’s own story. I’m interested to see where this goes, but so far I don’t think this book is as strong as the Vampire Academy books.

I get that Richelle wanted Sydney to have body insecurity, but I did not like how she did it. Sydney is an 18 year old human that’s a size 4, and is comparing herself to a 15 year old Moroi that’s a size 2. I just didn’t like that because a size 4 is pretty damn small and the difference between size 2 and 4 isn’t that big. I just wish that if Richelle really wanted have a character with body insecurities then make Sydney a size 8 or something. (Not that size 8 is by any means big AT ALL but it feels more realistic and makes more sense why Sydney would feel that way when shes always around Jill). Idk it just felt icky to me.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Misogyny, and Rape