Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

Heavy Crown by Sophie Lark

6 reviews

hapalyn's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

4.0

Tense throughout the entire book! The ending set up the spin-off super nicely (but also has me stressed out haha)

I love Yelena and Sebastian was a surprisingly complex character.

I’m going to miss Enzo!!

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Death, Sexual content, Violence, Gun violence, and Murder

Moderate: Misogyny, Alcohol, Pregnancy, and Torture

quietmarki's review

sad tense fast-paced

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

2.0

I'm glad I finished this serie. I didn't care for them anymore. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cancer, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Body shaming, Cursing, Sexual violence, Death, Death of parent, Gun violence, Medical content, Murder, and Pregnancy

booksalacarte's review

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

2.75

Heavy crown 2.75⭐️3.75🌶️

Mafia Romance

Dark Romance

Dual POV

Morally grey couple

Insta-love

Rival families

Secrets

For a finale of a series this was a complete bust. Generally a finale brings people together and this book just didn’t. It did a good job of bringing past couples into the story, probably more than any other book, but not in a good way. 

The insta-love was just that, with not a lot of relationship development. There was a little bit too much dub con for me. The situation put the FMC at a huge emotional disadvantage making the scene borderline emotionally abusive. Just yuck.

The book was a sloppy ending to this series and felt like it was just to set up the kingmaker series. There is no emotional resolution for this generation, only setup for 3 kids in the next one. 

Thank you NetGalley and Sorcebook Bloom Books for an Advanced eReader Copy of this book in exchange for my honest opinion.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Grief, Cursing, Death of parent, Car accident, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Death, Confinement, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Violence, and Blood

__romancereader__'s review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

I loved the f*cking ending of this book the epilogue was everything i needed i do wish that the epilogue was longer and we got to meet all the characters from the previous book but we didn’t 🥲 i was kinda bored for the beginning of the book the book didn’t get interesting for me till revenge was the only thing the main male character Sebastian could see thats when the book got interesting for me you do see allot of the main characters from this book and the previous books in the brutal birthrights series kids they all have at least one kid except one couple that you don’t even see or hear about in this book i hope they did have a kid in a different book that I don’t know about the book moves kinda fast and i did enjoy that the female main character was a virgin and lost her virginity to the male main character and the male main character only there is another series after this one about the couples from the brutal birthrights kids so that’s gonna be interesting to read finally i do think strongly that Stolen heir is my favorite book in this series and idk if it was just me but at certain scenes of this book i kept thinking of all he’ll ever be by willow winters if you read both books you might see some similarities not allot but still some or maybe it was just me that saw similarities but anywho i rated this book a 4 stars⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ and only because i did not enjoy it until the ending i feel that got the last book in this series it could’ve been way better but i still enjoyed it though 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Death of parent, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Cursing, and Death

Not all content warnings are about the main characters some are and some are about the other characters you meet/hear about 🫶🏼Enjoy🫶🏼

ecravens's review

adventurous dark tense fast-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? It's complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Murder, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Blood

weelasswithabook's review

adventurous challenging emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.5

CW, gun violence, death of a loved one, dismemberment, torture, misogyny, abusive parental relationship, historical DV, SA

⭐ Hidden motive
⭐ Mafia romance 

Ooh this had me full of anxiety. So much happened in this book 👀 character deaths that broke my little heart, betrayal, sadness, a hero with such responsibility he didn't want nor need thrust on him, a heroine made to choose between her family (tbh they were dicks so I'd have bounced) and someone she loved. 

Uggghhhhh this was just the perfect end to the series and Kingmakers (which I read first for some reason 🤣) is such a natural progression which just flows from Heavy Crown to The Heir. 

10/10 would read again. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content, Death, Death of parent, Murder, Violence, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

Moderate: Torture, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Sexual assault, Fire/Fire injury, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, and Sexism

Minor: Terminal illness