Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

El príncipe cautivo by C.S. Pacat

235 reviews

paziicrm's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

4.25

Captive Prince, as a novel, gets a 4☆ for me. As a re-read after 7 years, it was such a fun reading experience! The worldbuilding, though emotionally challenging and shocking, was so well done from the get to. And seeing the progression of Damen and Lauren't dynamics from enemies to temporally reluctant allies is so 🤌🏼 GOOD! 

This edition contains an extra short story, Erasmus's training AND IT WAS SO SO GOOD. First time reading it and I'm floored to see how much I enjoyed it. The ending was surprising, heartbreaking and devastating for so many reasons. I hope Erasmus and Kallias find each other again... 4.5☆

This specific edition I give 4.25 because the short story at the end elevates the rating (such a nice bonus!)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Confinement and Drug use

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Classism

quartzzz's review against another edition

challenging dark tense slow-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual violence, and Slavery

abitbetterbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Trafficking, Death of parent, Murder, and War

lynssss's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Slavery

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, and Pedophilia

Minor: Rape

aud_tn's review against another edition

adventurous dark slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, and Sexual harassment

euhnamor's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious sad slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, and Murder

savaburry's review against another edition

adventurous dark slow-paced

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

3.0

This is...a strange book. It's not bad, the concept is solid actually, but the vibe is just very weird! This first book is a boring intro to the world and relationships, but you can feel that something is going to happen so it makes you wanna keep reading. And I get that the dynamic is slave/master or servant/master whatever, but there was a strange abundance of like sexual violence like even outside of that dynamic! I don't know why rape is all these villainous and sexually free people can come up with in the form of sexual pleasure/punishment! Apart from that, the pacing was also off....

but

you can't tell that this is setting up a hot romance until it nears the end (apart from just knowing that this is a fantasy romance) and I am absolutely buying what Damen and Laurent are selling and tbh I hate that for me!!!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Slavery

Minor: Rape

efsimpkin's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

3.75

Honestly… I couldn’t even tell you if you liked this. It’s a really unhappy book. There are some gems of dialogue and some of the plot points are quite cleverly arranged, but at the same time the content is unnecessarily brutal and for no reason. The presence of a child sex slave, even with external commentary, is upsetting. I’m only going to continue because my friends have promised me the sequels are worth it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Forced institutionalization, and Kidnapping

kyliereads341's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

the_shepherd's review against another edition

The characters and story seemed interesting - but the depiction of sexual slavery was just too explicit for my liking.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, and Slavery