Reviews tagging 'Alcoholism'

Ruthless Fae by Susanne Valenti, Caroline Peckham

8 reviews

kalefactory's review

adventurous challenging hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Violence

Minor: Alcoholism and Alcohol

nineinchnails's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-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

3.75

going to try to keep this spoiler free but i don't have much to say about the writing that i didn't already say in my review of the awakening so it'll be pretty short. we get some chapters in the guys' pov and while stuff was hinted at in the first book the chapters provide more insight into the other characters and there was more focus on them + their motivations than before! this book also developed + focused on nymphs more and the girls are starting to settle in and even evolve imo. geraldine gets some more 'screentime' here and i'm obsessed even if there isn't much more development for her yet since she's starting to grow closer to the girls regardless.

i usually hate action scenes (especially in books) because i find them terribly boring and redundant but the last 10% had me biting my nails on the edge of my seat. ngl i can't wait to start the 3rd book because it left off at such a crazy place but i have been advised it's better to read the prequel first💔 also i'm sure i'm supposed to hate max but i just can't i love (fictional) male manipulators and his antics are endearing to me i wish he had more focus 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Excrement, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Physical abuse, Alcoholism, Sexual harassment, Gore, Sexual content, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Death, War, Child abuse, and Grief

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ifoundcallie's review

adventurous emotional funny slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Blood

Moderate: Child abuse, Alcohol, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Classism, and Death

Minor: Death of parent, Sexual harassment, Addiction, Car accident, Alcoholism, Excrement, Pedophilia, Torture, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , War, Cursing, and Murder

lots of crude references to beastiality (kind of? So mythical creatures count? Lol)

nirellis's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense slow-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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Bullying, and Violence

Moderate: Child death and Alcoholism

Minor: Rape

crinkledmochi'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

2.75

again im just reading this for a good time lmao… also these books are kinda long for no reason like the first half to middle is barely any plot and all the action and good stuff is at the end which is understandable but there’s too much exposition. 

also can we talk about the tokenism of diego… 

and the fact that this series lacks diversity when there’s so many species of fae ??? there’s one poc in this whole series and he’s a bad guy (max rigel), the vega twins and diego are latine but they’re white so does that even count,,,

let’s also mention the fact that lance is like 26 and darcy is 18… at least tory is flirting with people her age not that it makes it any better cause she has terrible taste (abusers).  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Physical abuse, Blood, Emotional abuse, Body horror, Gaslighting, Grief, Body shaming, Bullying, and Death

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Excrement, Incest, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Sexual content, and War

Minor: Alcoholism

kat1105's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Sexual content, and Violence

psydneigh's review

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

Im glad this one had a bit of everyone’s POV.

I was happy that Caleb and Tory happened. I hope they continue but im guessing something will pop up and halt them. I thought some of  Tory and Darcy’s actions were annoying. Them with the throne thing - it just felt too soon and out of no where and then then with the pegasus thing - i get getting back at him, but they kept going at him and i dont think he deserved that much repeated harassment.

Overall I enjoyed, im going to read the prequel before continuing because i think itll be important before this next book.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Alcoholism, Bullying, and Child abuse

elenamarmiroli's review

adventurous dark funny 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? It's complicated

3.75

Volume divertente e finalmente le protagoniste cominciano a diventare leggermente più attive e controllano leggermente meglio i loro potere e potenziale.
Non vedo l'ora di scoprire l'ordine a cui appartengono.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Sexual content, Bullying, and Violence

Moderate: Physical abuse and Blood