Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

Neon Gods by Katee Robert

46 reviews

icy_queen's review

dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Stalking, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

Minor: Eating disorder, Mental illness, and Death of parent

allisonmspiers's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Murder, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Death, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Kidnapping, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and War

There is also content that would likely be triggering for those with eating disorders/body image issues in this book.

eabbenante's review

dark emotional fast-paced

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

4.0

Spicy right from the beginning, but also much darker than I expected. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence and Kidnapping

uranaishi's review

adventurous dark emotional 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? No

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Stalking, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Confinement, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Blood, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, and Classism

hangeken's review

dark mysterious 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: Cursing, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Forced institutionalization, and Murder

Minor: Gore, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Stalking, and Injury/Injury detail

This book was honestly amazing. Just the layout and how the story is told

plus all the raunchy erotica

it is a must read for mature readers!!

msradiosilence's review

adventurous dark emotional funny 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? No

4.0

Tldr; I can’t believe I haven’t read Katee Robert before now! This was such a good dark romance.

Read my full review at: https://www.rainyreader.com/single-post/neon-gods.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

thecatconstellation's review against another edition

emotional tense fast-paced

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

3.5

I thought this was okay. I enjoyed reading it for the most part. I had some issues with some of the black and white morality around

murdering a wife killing abuser

, but overall I liked it well enough. The plot is thin at times, but there’s enough there to keep the story moving. One of my least favorite things about this is that they aren’t actually gods? Just people with the “roles” - I saw someone say this is more mafia than mythology and I feel like that is an accurate assessment. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Violence and Death of parent

Minor: Cursing, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, and War

taleofabibliophile's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Misogyny, Sexual content, Violence, Kidnapping, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gun violence, Blood, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Drug use, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, and Alcohol

bex_knighthunter's review

adventurous fast-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

3.0

This was enjoyable, but I'm not sure it was particularly good. To be fair, this is my first foray into erotica, and I think as a genre it just might not be for me - but then without the erotica elements the rest was quite thin and underdeveloped. There were a few eyeroll moments and it didn't really deliver on the dark angsty story I was expecting - they fell for each other very quickly and then never really disagreed, and I couldn't really be persuaded that Hades was anything but a good guy. However, there were many elements I enjoyed, including: casual queerness (two Bi MC), emphasis on consent, Hermes, and much of the banter. There were a few parts of their internal monologues that were repetitive, but otherwise the writing didn't get in the way of the story. I liked the premise and the way their relationship linked to larger stakes, but found their lack of planning frustrating - especially as it felt we were meant to think these characters were smart. Not a story to look too closely at!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Cursing, Violence, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Gun violence, Kidnapping, and Stalking

ratkingwizard's review

dark emotional 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

4.0

I really liked this book however the setting and the world building were hard for me to grasp.  I know that’s not a huge part of this book but the confusion took me out of the story at times.  Otherwise it was a very enjoyable read 😄

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Violence, Kidnapping, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment