Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Mayhem At Prescott High by C.M. Stunich

4 reviews

palebea's review

dark tense medium-paced

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

2.5

Stunich knows what she's doing with these cliff hangers. It's the only thing keeping me reading these books. I feel like I'm in a toxic relationship where it's mostly just bad but I'm getting just enough crumbs of good or maybe more accurately potential that I stick around. There's so much needless fluff and a lot of it is just boring. 

The plot holes are next level. The suspension of disbelief required is unreal and frustrating. These havoc boys are supposed to have everything down pat but they couldn't predict some of the fallout that's so obviously set up to happen? 

Weirdly Oscar and Aaron have become slow favourites. Half the time I have trouble differentiating Hal and Calum. Vic is always an arse and he's not even really that good at leading. He's possessive and foul. The spice scenes are getting slowly better but I really need them to be as crazy as the rest of the book is. 

Edit: DNF'd the series. I promise it doesn't get better. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Gun violence, and Violence

kat1105's review

dark emotional sad tense fast-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? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Medical trauma, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Child death, Confinement, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Body horror, Car accident, Child abuse, Classism, Death, Murder, Pedophilia, Violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Suicide, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Sexual harassment, and Torture

briannagriffin567's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual assault, Rape, Violence, Blood, Death, Gore, Gun violence, and Kidnapping

ladylaurenexplorer's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.5

So I was definitely here more for the boys win anything but then the plot got really crazy and then I was just plot all the way.

I’m glad we see more of Oscar coming into the relationship, even though it’s not as cohesive as I would like, but we still have two more books to go through before we see that I’m guessing.

Then you have Victor’s selfishness slowly going towards sharing, which we Laos, even though it’s more of a alpha thing then anything.

We finally have Cal and her joining, which was very great.

But I’m wondering how they’re going to get Aaron back. Onto the next book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual content, and Murder

Minor: Vomit, Rape, and Drug use