Reviews tagging 'Toxic friendship'

Shadow Princess by Susanne Valenti, Caroline Peckham

15 reviews

tonianne2788's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail

g4bster's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Murder, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death of parent

marinou00's review against another edition

4.25

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Toxic friendship

elenikin's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I keep vacillating between stopping or continuing this series, but the endings continue to make me want to continue a little longer. I liked seeing Darcy and Tory learn more of their powers, and also spend more time with Orion and Darius.

I was so stoked when Tory and Darius finally got together (so hot)! The ending was intense...I can't believe Tory. I'm a romantic at heart and have been pulling for her and Darius, even with the bad stuff he did to hurt her, but fuck me, I don't know why she chose to become star crossed. I just hope they can make something positive come out of it in future books...

The writing continues to be juvenile/cringy and I hate finding typos. The world building is also not that strong. I also continue to hate the bullying, but I felt like it's a little bit less in each book, especially since Darcy and Tory are fighting back more. Overall, I'm still enjoying the story enough to continue the series, but it's definitely not the best written books out there. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Alcohol

Maybe I'm just a silly American, but I feel like there's way too much alcohol use with the students...it makes it feel like they are condoning it, which I don't think is great.

rdaacvhiesl's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional funny tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This cliffhanger is so bad that I literally have nothing that makes me want to keep reading. 
The authors have a bad habit throughout the series of being repetitive with their descriptions. The lack of growth in certain characters really makes me want to drop kick my Kindle.  <Spoiler>There's slow burn and then there's never going any where but leading you on anyway. </Spoiler>

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail

tiinak's review against another edition

1.75

dark

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I don't think anybook that I can name over 20 different  content warnings for could be recommended. Also, weird to have condemnation arc for main characters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Bullying, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Classism

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, War

kalefactory's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Death of parent

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic friendship

ziaxx's review against another edition

1.0

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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So the fae celebrates Christmas?🤨 

I now understand the heavy criticism of this book series. This book is the best example to prove all of the points. And I'm too annoyed to write a polite review.  But one thing tho, Why the author did the twins so dirty? Even the prostitutes in dark romances have better sense of judgement and a spine but these twins.. Hah! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Excrement, Murder, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail

hiddeninfantasy's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

lorenmarie7's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Self harm, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment