Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

The Unseelie Prince by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

12 reviews

januaryt123's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Death, Violence, Toxic relationship, Murder, Grief, Blood, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Gore, Infertility, Torture, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

zia_c's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

The slow pace of this one really tested my patience. Not sure if it's just me, but man, it felt like things were dragging on forever.

As for the female main character, I'm kinda on the fence about her. I mean, I'm not a fan of those stubborn types who go all out sacrificing themselves for a world that's given them nothing but suffering. Maybe she'll grow on me in the next book if she shows some positive changes.

Oh, and let's talk about Valroy. Can I just admit that I'm already smitten with this guy? I couldn't care less about the people he offed. They had it coming, except for that one kid.

Kingsley knows how to deliver a male main character who's unapologetically himself. It's freaking fantastic, and I'm absolutely loving it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Body horror, Toxic relationship, and Gore

Minor: Infertility, Vomit, and Suicide attempt

She surrender herself to a painful death to escape the prince. I think it's suicide because she chose death over being with him. I guess that's an explanatory itself.

lalunablue's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Murder, Violence, Blood, and Torture

Moderate: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Animal death, and Sexual harassment

littlewishling's review against another edition

adventurous dark slow-paced

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

4.0

Kingsley has crafted a really interesting and dark world that I'm looking forward to exploring. I'm not sure how I'm going to come round to the romance that's building but we shall see.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Toxic relationship, and Kidnapping

marajay's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Bullying, Infertility, Death, and Torture

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Violence, Toxic relationship, and Suicide

Minor: War and Infertility

Few scenes are tense but nothing unbearable. Child/suicide spoiler-

child abuser and death in one scene depicting the kid being turned into a goblin. Kid wished his baby sister dead and the prince skinned him and turned him into a goblin as payment. Many side characters encourage female main to complete suicide to prevent a war and genocide. Assassination attempts happen and in the end she surrenders .

mentions of rape and her worries of such but one scene is questionable but no actual rape. She’s never illicitly tortured but stuff happens around her. Female main is infertile. Not a spoiler but just as a trigger warning.

booksoflore's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

2.5

God I don’t know how this book was such an incredible train wreck. Like, the beginning? So good! Loved the scorned wife dynamic she had going. And then I really couldn’t understand the pace or the story of this book. Nothing made sense. The timeline was so horribly horribly off. There was a chunk in the middle that was just so bad that I stopped reading for like 4 months. The ending??? Pisses me off. But only because there’s a second book and honestly I would have liked it if that was the end honestly. Read those triggers because holy shit.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Violence, Murder, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, War, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, and Torture

sabinehunter's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Violence, Infertility, Toxic relationship, War, Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Confinement, Death, Gaslighting, Child death, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

cassie12_21's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

2.75

Slightly disturbed. Cliff hanger ending. I don’t know why I read this book, I didn’t like it, and yet I really want to see were this goes (not in a good way) 
Info on the rape: (he doesn't do it, its talked about)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Death, Violence, Gore, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Murder, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Rape, Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Grief, Infertility, Alcohol, Sexual content, Suicide, Stalking, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Vomit

parfwen's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Murder, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Rape

strawberrymoonceci's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

1.25

God help me, what is up with all these fae authors? Why do they love writing their romantic interests as raging assholes? I don't get it. Seriously, why do people, specially women, since that is the primary audience for this genre, why do they love to read about women being abused with no resolution? Because that is all this was. Abuse. Horrible abuse.
It actually had a promising start, I think I would have liked this book a lot more had it just been about her living in her cabin, being the only witch in town.
The guy was an actual monster,

he kidnapped her, molested her incessantly, killed her ex (even if he abandoned her, it's still wrong), he killed a child, he inflicted so much psychological abuse on her, and physical too, he just didin't outright hit her, he is forcing her to marry him, and he is going to slaughter humanity and most of the fae, and that is not even all of it

; in summary, trash.
I don't understand how I was supposed to like it. All in all it was hot garbage, but at least I wasn't terribly bored. A few more things. It was supposed to be spicy, but they don't even home run, actually, they don't even 3rd base. Also, she cried a lot, not enough in my opinion, honestly, but he would always be like: why are you crying?! Seriously...
Also, she was always mentioning how much taller than her he was, first she said he was two feet taller than her, then she said he was three times her size, then she said he was four times her size! Then she went back to three. I mean, consistency, also, sounds like she is a child. Ew. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Gore, Sexual assault, Body horror, Child death, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Infertility