Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey

7 reviews

keishbby's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Child abuse, Sexual harassment, Animal death, War, Torture, Rape, Death, Violence, Grief, and Blood

robinnn78's review

This book is gross.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse

It's about grooming children.

karanextweek's review

3 reasons for DNF: 
1. I really hate the writing style. It’s exhausting and feels pretentious. 
2. The first 30th pages are lore. I don’t want to start a book with all back story. Tedious and boring!
3. I’m so tired of fantasy books that sexualize CHILDREN. It’s so unnecessary. I do not want to read a book about a SEVEN YEAR OLD discovering they’re a masochist.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Slavery

Moderate: Pedophilia and Trafficking

bkmckown's review

2.0

This book was recommended to me by MANY people. It’s was such a slog to finish. Over 1,000 pages and I would’ve quit if I hadn’t needed it for many of my reading challenges. I’ll start with the positive:

The overall story was fairly interesting. The sexy parts were indeed spicy. That’s about it. 

Now for the stuff I did NOT like:

 Let me preface this to say that I don’t like fantasy that much. Especially the ones who refer to characters in full name, the ones that have names that are difficult to pronounce, the ones that have exotic names for every group of people, location, position, etc

The main character is basically a child who is taught in the erotic arts. HUGE WTF! She’s a sex slave. Her first “master” just enjoys inflicting pain- which part of her “curse” makes it pleasurable to her. I felt like it wasn’t BDSM, but just abuse. Maybe there was a time in my life where I’d find this read enjoyable, but this isn’t it. 

I did give it 2 stars because the author did create and intricate cast of characters and story, but honestly, I would’ve DNF at any other time. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Classism, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, War, Death, Domestic abuse, Forced institutionalization, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Child abuse, Confinement, Cultural appropriation, and Misogyny

zimmerlemon's review

I can see how this would be the vibe for some ppl but be ready for some HEFTY world building. Soooo muchhh informattionnnnnnnnnn. Also pretty heavy thematically. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse and Sexual violence

howwoolatthemoon's review

I am not into this nearly enough for thirty+ hours, plus sequels

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, Kidnapping, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Abandonment, Slavery, Sexual harassment, Torture, and Trafficking

anigoose's review against another edition

slow-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Murder, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Violence

Moderate: Ableism, Animal death, Death, Physical abuse, Slavery, Toxic relationship, and Torture