Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

Sea of Ruin by Pam Godwin

60 reviews

amme's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

1.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Blood, Confinement, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Medical content, and Gun violence

Minor: Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, Infertility, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Vomit

saadeeyah's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Slavery, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: Infertility and Suicide attempt

ireadinbed's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Really enjoyed this book because of plot and honestly it just had good sexual tension. Also the characters are really fun. There are some really interesting touches with the love interests that made me very happy to read. 

But it has a lot of hard to read subject matter, and while sometime I need that kind of read it would make me super cautious to ever rec. 

Also there were some consistent vocabulary choices I really hated. Or I probably would have given a 5 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Trafficking, and Violence

Moderate: Infertility and Infidelity

adhara13's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Toxic relationship, Torture, Suicide, Slavery, Violence, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Sexual assault, Sexism, Physical abuse, Murder, Misogyny, Medical content, Kidnapping, Infidelity, Infertility, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Death, Child abuse, Blood, Alcohol, Adult/minor relationship, Abandonment, Sexual content, and Colonisation

About one of the rape scenes:

the main character is raped by (one of) her love interests and this isn't presented as wrong (not even considered as rape within the story) because her rapist regrets it and she's in love with him.

ameliajag's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Colonisation, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Infertility, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Torture, and Violence

vero_lee's review against another edition

A+ for effort. unfortunately, this isn’t my cup of tea. I couldn’t even bring myself to finish it.

 I highly recommend skipping the first five chapters, minimum.

I understand it’s a pirate story, so violence should be expected. However, I thought the amount of rape and torture was too much. Gratuitous, even.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Medical trauma, Misogyny, Murder, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, War, and Slavery

Minor: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, and Suicide attempt

STOCKHOLM SYNDROME TW: what i listed Spoilers all the way down Bruh. She’s a respected captain, but only on her ship. And that spans only a handful of chapters. Beyond that, she’s a captive with no rights. She endures a god awful amount of trauma, from beginning to end. 14 years old. Orphaned. Sexually assaulted and beaten by her 40-something fiancé because her mother practiced sold her so they could return to proper society. Her mother, who was portrayed to be cold and abusive, had a mini redemption arc until she literally threw herself off a cliff. I can’t even begin to describe what else transpires. it’s definitely a lot.

levesc17's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

3.75

There is no obvious content warning but this book has some violence and rape. It’s a pirate book; but a lot of the violence is done at the hands of the British empire. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, Murder, and Slavery

nicole_thereader's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Trafficking

rgrace89's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

This was my first Pam Godwin book and wow does she have a way with words! Her writing is so visceral and immediately sucks you in to the feelings abs world of the characters.
No spoilers but this book is not for someone who likes traditional romance. It’s evocative, goes against “norms”…. Much like pirates! I for one absolutely loved it! I wish I could read it again for the first time! And I will never hear the word “priest” the same way again ;) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Torture

Minor: Slavery

abir_'s review against another edition

dark emotional fast-paced

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

2.5

I keep coming back to this review to add trigger warnings... that's how many there are
See I finished this in a day so it should be 5 stars but there should've been some warnings about the rape and torture that happens in the book. 

Also there was no aftermath of the rape, the MC had sex with her 2 partners after being raped.

Speaking of the 2PARTNERS, this was tagged mmf elsewhere but  that's mainly mentioned, not really shown, it's mfm.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Gore, Infidelity, Suicide, and Torture

Minor: Infertility, Slavery, and Trafficking