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allingoodtime's review
- 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
Graphic: Violence and Torture
Moderate: Sexual assault and Kidnapping
smuttymcbookface's review against another edition
3.0
Nalini Singh is the definition of women writing men. You will find many unironic statements like "his pure unadulterated maleness" in all of these books. I thought I'd appreciate this one more because it was a female changeling, meaning that it wasn't a man harassing a woman into a sexual relationship like the others. And, don't get me wrong, I did appreciate the relationship more in this book compared to Slave to Sensation and Visions of Heat. But the writing was still too much.
Although the plot was developed further in this, and it did seem like a good plot, I found myself bored. I felt like things dragged on, and events happened just to keep the book going. I loved the development of these two, but I did find Brenna annoying because of how Nalini Singh has written women changelings as every "emotional" stereotype you can think of.
In addition to that, the writing just felt lazy at times. Chapters ended and started mid conversation with seemingly no reasoning but to add a new chapter. The writing was unrepentantly sexist. And some characters seemed to be everywhere just because.
Graphic: Medical trauma, Sexual content, and Blood
Moderate: Gun violence, Kidnapping, Torture, Sexual assault, Death, and Rape
givemaribooks's review
- 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? It's complicated
4.0
The book is a bit outdated, especially when it came to ableist language.
I listened to the audiobook and the narrator is great, especially voicing the psy characters.
CW: murder, kidnapping, torture (recounted), sexual assault (recounted), PTSD
Graphic: Torture and Sexual assault
Moderate: Murder and Kidnapping
sunnysky's review against another edition
- 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
Moderate: Sexual content and Child abuse
Minor: Torture and Kidnapping
nbeckham's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Minor: Rape and Kidnapping
severelyhopefulcloud's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Kidnapping, Medical trauma, and Sexual content
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Physical abuse
Minor: Murder
just_one_more_paige's review against another edition
- 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? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Blood, Confinement, Death, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, and Violence
Moderate: Animal death, Stalking, and Drug use
rivercat0338's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical content, Sexual content, and Violence
Minor: Child death and Child abuse