Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

My Darling Duke by Stacy Reid

13 reviews

turnthepages_nl's review against another edition

De disability rep stond me enorm tegen. Het zwabbert alle kanten op.
Ik heb de laatste hoofdstukken even gelezen en mijn vermoedens werden bevestigd...

ze hebben PIV seks, hij kan een stijve krijgen én klaarkomen. Ookal werd eerder brweerd dat hij dat niet kon na zijn ongeluk. En Katherine raakt zelfs zwanger. *zucht*

Maar waar ik vooral op afknapte is de scene dat de koets in het water reed en de hertog haar, zijn personeel én de paarden uit het water wist te halen. Terwijl hij chronische pijn en stijfheid heeft in zijn bene  en net een heel aantal uur heeft paardgereden dus zijn lichaam al bekaf is.
Vervolgens tilt hij de man op zijn schouders en loopt zo het bos in. Terwijl hij meestal met een stok moet lopen...
Dit was allemaal zo onrealistisch en gemakkelijk. Daarna even kort noemen dat hij pijn heeft en verder niks?! Nee sorry dan knap ik echt af. Heel jammer dit.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual content

Minor: Pregnancy

ivegotyourpaperback's review against another edition

3.75

I quite enjoyed this story, mostly due to the hero, Alexander. While he could play the part of the brash and crass Duke, this seemed to mostly be a mask that he put on for society, hiding his sweet and adoring nature beneath. He was an emotionally complex character whose POV I loved being in.

Our heroine, Kitty, seemed to fall a bit flat in comparison. She didn’t feel as fully fleshed out. I would have liked a heroine who would have challenged him a bit more rather than the Little Miss Prim & Proper.

And then came the narrator. Good god, I could barely stand her. I almost DNF’d the audiobook at 4% because of her strange over-pronunciation of words (I wouldn’t be surprised if she was an American putting on a British accent) and the melodramatic performance of the text which constantly brought me out of the story.

But I forced myself to keep going through her weird breathless tone, the sound akin to someone trying, unsuccessfully, to whistle but only able to blow air out of their mouth. The only character whose voice I enjoyed was the minor Russian side character 

Content warnings:

⚠️implication of SA

⚠️physical impairment due to injury

⚠️mention of impotence 

⚠️mention of past drug addiction 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Infertility

Minor: Drug abuse and Sexual assault

readingsugar's review against another edition

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism and Sexual content

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

kathleenmcg's review against another edition

dark emotional slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Drug use

martamae77's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Sexual content

Moderate: Infertility

iamsammie27's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction and Drug use

caitlinemccann's review

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted sad 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death of parent

theportalmaster's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted 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? Yes

4.0

This was actually… so different from other books of the sort! I’m positively surprised. I needed something light and without much thinking needed after all the finals stress. 
Also what a breath of fresh air to see a heroine be unapologetically herself and not a shy, annoying damsel in distress. Loved that part! Also a little less “I love you so much XY” towards the end would have been wonderful in my opinion. I know it’s a romance book but one and done would suffice.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual content, Self harm, and Addiction

cepbreed's review

emotional fast-paced

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

3.0

The first half of this book give or take had me in a chokehold. I loved Kitty's brash actions, her devotion to her family, but I also had many complaints. There was a lot of unnecessary exposition, like, I get it's the first book in a series but all the descriptions of her friends felt out of place. It was weird to mention so many names when readers would have absolutely no recall when they were mentioned again. I was like "who tf is Ophelia?" Also the duke's personality in the beginning felt so far removed from who he was at the end, not even, at the 3/4 mark. I understand he is hurt and too prideful to allow others to perceive his hurt or even help him, but how did that manifest so differently so quickly? Character development is a thing, but the key word here is development, which Alexander was evidently lacking. His indecisiveness was so frustrating, I did really end up liking Kitty though. She embarrassed me a bit, but she felt like a friend almost. At the end of the day this is a histrom so I can't expect something revolutionary, but somethings really ruined the reading experience, the immersion, for me.

...(I get it was supposed to be an unexpected moment but him literally collapsing mid stroke???? I was so cringed out I had to detox on TikTok for a couple minutes).

Song:

• cowboy like me - Taylor Swift 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Fire/Fire injury, Infertility, Medical content, and Sexual content

Moderate: Pregnancy, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Death of parent

chrisljm's review against another edition

emotional relaxing fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, Body shaming, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Colonisation, Ableism, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Misogyny, Alcohol, Infertility, and Medical content

Minor: Grief, Sexual assault, and Pregnancy