Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

83 reviews

anilein's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Toxic friendship, War, Torture, Cursing, Death, Grief, Misogyny, Murder, Bullying, Death of parent, Drug use, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Vomit, Animal cruelty, Mental illness, Ableism, Chronic illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexual content

stitchbooks22'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: Death, Body horror, Body shaming, Torture, Colonisation, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Gore, Physical abuse, Ableism, Animal death, Child death, Death of parent, Medical content, Bullying, Chronic illness, Classism, Cursing, Hate crime, Violence, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Grief, War, Xenophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Murder, Blood, Genocide, and Vomit

noellee2004's review

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Chronic illness, Body shaming, Classism, War, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Bullying, Colonisation, Gaslighting, Grief, Murder, and Violence

d0505's review

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, Death of parent, and Child death

Moderate: Bullying, Toxic relationship, and Sexual content

bethann_coleates's review

adventurous emotional 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

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Death of parent, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Murder, Violence, and War

tuc39033's review

adventurous dark hopeful fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Toxic friendship, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Bullying, Blood, Death of parent, Death, Classism, War, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, and Panic attacks/disorders

filipa_maia's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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

It took a really long time to connect with this story, but when I did, my goodness, I got hooked.

Violet is such an amazing character, her growth throughout the entire story is one of the best character arcs I've ever read. The plot is great, full of twists, great friendships, magic and cool dragons. How can you ask for more than that?

Are there any weird little things? Yes. Why the hell do they need to bond with a dragon to write with a pen? What kind of power is that? Why are the sex scenes so…detailed? We get it, sex is good, we don't need to read every thing they feel.

The ending was brilliant! I can't wait to read the second book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Child death, Blood, Abandonment, Cursing, Violence, Toxic relationship, War, Toxic friendship, Sexual content, Grief, Gaslighting, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, and Death

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death

Minor: Vomit

allisonpaigex's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense slow-paced

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

2.0

2 for book, narrators for graphic audio were great though  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Vomit, Violence, Death, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Death of parent and Cursing

3q29fgh239fg24pfg9qf9's review

adventurous dark hopeful tense 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

2.75

Pro: 

• When I suspend disbelief, I am a fan of the idea of the world built.  I'm a fantasy nerd -- sue me

Cons:

1. - The viciousness of the environment that the main character lives in (especially the primary environ-- the war school) is overtly hostile to that it almost defies logic
2. The sex scenes are poorly written - not for the lack of description, but the actual wording and verbiage. It's like a teenage wrote it. Cringe is the word I'm looking for
3. The recurring themes of fighting with the main character's male best friend,  the main character's internal thoughts about the boy she's interested in and their conflict with said boy etc .. got a bit dull after awhile. 

I find other books with similar themes like the Inheritance Cycle (e.g. Eragon) and Hunger Games to be much better written and therefor more engaging. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and War

weecore's review

adventurous tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, Violence, Murder, Gun violence, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Ableism, Cursing, Death of parent, and Violence

Minor: Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, and Toxic relationship