Reviews tagging 'Incest'

The Binding by Bridget Collins

35 reviews

jo_bee's review

adventurous dark emotional 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? Yes

5.0

An incredible read. If it starts a bit awkward, don't let that turn you away - there's reasons for it and soon enough it sucks you up and won't let you put it down. The characters are amazing, the romance is heartwrenching, there are so many hints dropped throughout the story the books come back to that are so satisfying to unravel. Some minor things are implied but never completely explained but personally I enjoy it like that. Truly enjoyed every page of it. Gets heavier in the second half so definitely check trigger warnings if you need to.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Animal death, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Suicide and Sexual assault

Minor: Incest

krammerjunk's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia and Rape

Minor: Suicide and Incest

armstrongangela83's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious sad tense slow-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

5.0

I LOVED THIS SO MUCH OH MY GOD

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Rape, and Incest

animaniac17's review

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Pedophilia, Suicide attempt, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Sexual assault, and Death

Moderate: Blood, Incest, Violence, Sexual content, Dementia, Kidnapping, Rape, Vomit, Cursing, and Pedophilia

Minor: Alcoholism, Abortion, and Classism

ashtheaudiomancer's review

197 pages in, and now I'm looking up spoilers because I have a sick feeling about the secret part of the main character's history that he was forced to forget.

Anyways, don't kill the dog. You kill the dog, you kill my reading interest entirely. Which sucks, because I was really enjoying this one.

NEXT.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Minor: Rape and Incest

louisallama's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

3.75

It's a little bit hard for me to review because 1. the blurb doesn't tell you what the story is about and 2. it's not the type of book I usually gravitate towards, due in part to the somewhat misleading blurb (the blurb purposefully did 't including main plot points for story reasons). I was expecting exciting magical memory stuff, but instead this was an extremely character driven novel that was far more focused on the experiences of the main characters and the evil ways that memory binding could be used. Despite this, the story was lovely, and I definitely cried through the end of Part Two when Emmett and Lucien get found out. The prose was very nice, although it got a little flowery for me at times. None of these things are really criticisms of the book itself (except maybe the blurb I guess) and I can definitely see other people loving this book more than me, but I still definitely enjoyed it overall. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Outing, Suicide, Murder, Animal death, Homophobia, and Rape

Moderate: Classism, Cursing, Vomit, Physical abuse, Incest, Alcoholism, and Death

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

amyteurhour's review against another edition

Content warning: child neglect/abandonment, domestic violence, rape, incest, murder

lol trying to get through this gave me seasonal depression

Stopped the audiobook at 30%, Part I - Chapter 8 (4:36:09)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Incest, Murder, Abandonment, and Domestic abuse

coffee_and_wool's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Outing, Suicide, Sexual violence, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Animal cruelty, Homophobia, Vomit, Domestic abuse, Rape, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Child death, Classism, Incest, and Pedophilia

rachel8896's review

emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit and Homophobia

Moderate: Rape and Suicide

Minor: Incest

kcup_espresso's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious medium-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

I really enjoyed this book! I had a hard time putting it down, even though it wasn't really what I thought it was going to be initially. While I went in expecting to read more about the magic and lore of how bookbinding worked in this story's world, I was pleasantly surprised by the love story it presented. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, Animal death, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Homophobia and Vomit

Minor: Incest