Reviews tagging 'Rape'

The Witch's Daughter by Paula Brackston

20 reviews

taelajoon's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical content, Murder, Stalking, Death, War, Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

jamiejanae_6's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Medical content, Animal death, Child death, Death of parent, Grief, Sexual content, Torture, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Stalking, and War

kennedyno's review against another edition

The amount of sexual assault in this novel both felt like too much, and like it killed any of the impact those moment were supposed to have. If something huge and impactful  happens every other chapter, it stops holding the weight it should. I loved the prose but for that, and for the confused and unclear world building surrounding the magic of this world, I just can’t muster up the desire to continue 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Death

mpimental's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Rape, War, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Sexual violence

sarahsnacks's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? No

2.0

So much unnecessary rape in this. Why? 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War and Rape

madeline_'s review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-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? It's complicated

3.0

The problem with this book is not that it was bad. It is that I read it within a stones throw of Addie LaRue. A time traveling romance of sorts with a woman that can live forever? Unfortunately compared to my experience with Schwab's haunting tale this one did not stand up. 

Things of note: I do not like how each stop in time with Bess resulted in her falling in love, and then having that love dashed. It was repetitive and there is more to a story than being in love (Jack the Ripper was happening and she was more worried about the men in her life!) And, it is a shame that this book fell back on men assaulting the main character over and over as a plot device. It gets boring and is no fun to read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

Moderate: Sexual assault and Gore

phoenixfaie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Rape, Blood, Medical content, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and War

justme_emily's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Rape

skylar_river's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious fast-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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Violence, and War

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Murder, Rape, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Toxic relationship

barbsantos's review

adventurous dark slow-paced

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

3.0

I don't know why this book has no warnings, it has explicit sexual violence and assault. 
That's not the reason why I gave 3 stars though, the book is kind of meh. Throughout the story we don't feel that the antagonist as bad as the main character feels, we hear about the bad things he does, but the emotion is not there. Also, what is his motivation? Is he bad for sake of being bad? What does he do when he's not after Bess? 
The time we spend on Bess past feels like a waste of time, the story is always the same: Bess is happy then Gideon shows up and she disappears again. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Rape, and Sexual assault