Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

Rose in Chains by Julie Soto

144 reviews

apriicotleaff's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Slavery, Trafficking, Sexual harassment

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, War

Minor: Torture, Abortion

The prevalent theme throughout the book is of women being auctioned and used as sex slaves and there is moderate description of the use of an elixir that makes them more willing to perform sexual acts for those who purchased them. There are also mentions of rape, and descriptive non-consentual touching throughout.

ziaxx's review against another edition

fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

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I just can't believe my eyes!!!! This is the same author who wrote The Auction. 😑

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail

laurenclaire99's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, War

khymihr's review against another edition

2.5

dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Slavery, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Misogyny, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, War

nomsandrambles's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Skillful writing as always from Julie Soto! There was a tiiiny bit of disappointment with this for me: 
It was honestly very hard for me to rate this book - one of a trilogy - in complete isolation to its fic counterpart which was a standalone story. (Familiar characters always hit different.) While I certainly enjoyed the new world building, I’m looking forward to “more” in the coming books, not just plot-wise, but I felt like some character development was lacking,

and I recall that being bigger towards the end of the story. Some understandably omitted  elements were missed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual assault, Slavery, Violence, Xenophobia, Sexual harassment

Moderate: Rape, Sexual violence, War

Minor: Abortion

kendallsings's review against another edition

1.0

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

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A whole lot of nothing. Auctioning of slaves. Bystanders to sexual assault on multiple occasions, masked as "showing off their property". Stockholm syndrome? Literally nothing plot wise happens in this entire book.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Infertility, Sexual assault, Slavery, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Sexual harassment

shannonjoyce's review against another edition

3.75

slow-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

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Ok I will be continuing with this series, but this book was unnecessarily long & drawn out without much plot progress. Now if it had some kind of payoff for the reader, fine, but for me it was just a frustration of lack of communication. The two MC’s seemed so irrationally dumb. But hopefully they figure their shit out in the next book?

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

sierrareads103's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Infertility, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Blood, Abortion, Death of parent

marirene's review against another edition

4.0

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Julie Soto has a way of making me feel what her characters are feeling and empathizing with them and their predicaments even if I don’t actually like the characters. She also writes spicy scenes very well. I’ve enjoyed everything else I’ve read by her and this fits that bill. It’s not perfect. I wasn’t in a headspace to enjoy another story of a male-led world where women are subjugated and oppressed. That’s on me, not the author. I really had a hard time stomaching all the virginity = purity talk. I understand it was the bad guys doing it, but I was just so over it :D I understand this story was inspired by other author’s work and originally a fan fiction, but honestly that had zero bearing on the enjoyment or understanding of this story. I think the publishers did J. Soto a disservice by marketing it so heavily as a fan fiction.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Infertility, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Sexual harassment, War

ivissu's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, War