Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Gleam by Raven Kennedy

82 reviews

becxreadz's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense fast-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

5.0

Liked
*Auren's growth
*Finally some steam
*Getting multiple povs
*Midas is thr most sadistic sob I've ever read.  Oh I hated that bastard. 
*Beautiful book design
*Kept me hooked and on edge

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Torture, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Rape

hannibanani29's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Death, Toxic relationship, and Sexual content

Moderate: Infidelity, Physical abuse, Cursing, Alcohol, Rape, Sexual violence, Gaslighting, Drug abuse, Pregnancy, Drug use, Torture, and Murder

Minor: Blood, Addiction, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Infertility

bryelle's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

This is book three of the glint series. Auren does a lot of growing in this book. She is seeing her value and seeing that she needs to save herself. Auren is reunited with Midas and she start to see him for who he truly is. This book is long but worth it. Ends on another cliffhanger. 

Auren falls more in love with Slade. She gets to see both sides of him. Auren learns to use her gold power even when it is not day time. Slade has to rot her to save her.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Torture, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, Drug use, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Trafficking, Stalking, and Infertility

booksaremythirdplace's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, and Violence

januaryt123's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious relaxing 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: Torture, Toxic relationship, Rape, Sexual assault, Trafficking, Child abuse, Slavery, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Murder, Grief, Gore, Drug use, Drug abuse, Death, Confinement, and Addiction

caitlinemccann's review against another edition

adventurous challenging funny 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Drug use, Sexual content, Torture, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Confinement

Minor: Addiction

imogen_reads_books's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Torture, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Addiction, and Emotional abuse

kodafaith's review against another edition

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? Yes

4.5

This book actually hurt me to read. Seeing all of the trauma that Auren has endured makes you truly understand her behaviors, why she holds so tightly to Midas and pushes everything else away. Seeing her start to open her eyes to her abuse and then to literally have no choice to but to see

Because dear God Midas did you have to literally drug, mutilate, and torture this poor girl like stalking, brainwashing, using and manipulating wasn’t enough…. Thank god you died

what he has been doing all along.
The breaking in the end was so deserved but so freaking painful. To read everything she went through and just to think “Slade are you almost here… Slade she needs you… SLADE” but to know that Auren really needs to save herself. It was so nauseating to see her endure such painful trauma but I think that is a reason why this series has hit me so much harder than a lot of other fantasy out there…
Just so good. Can’t wait for more and to see how this story is going to end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Torture, Emotional abuse, Body horror, Violence, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Physical abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse and Drug use

campisforever's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

Listen, as part of the series the book is good. And the people who are upset about the perspective of the first sex scene are wrong—it’s great. 

There is, however, absolutely no reason this book should be almost 700 pages long. This one is slower than the other two, it drags, it repeats itself, and it includes points of view that aren’t necessary. Especially the last 70-100 pages, and the last two chapters (which are the same scene, word for word, from two different characters perspectives) are so slow and repetitive. I’m not into the “give me the same scene from this perspective now” because I think it’s lazy writing, honestly, so if I’d known I would have only read one of those chapters instead of both, because there was nothing additive about the second one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, and Addiction

Minor: Pregnancy and Trafficking

lovesickreadings's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Trafficking, Torture, Gaslighting, Confinement, Sexual violence, Misogyny, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, War, Violence, and Drug abuse