Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Peaches and Honey: These Immortal Truths by R. Raeta

19 reviews

shermansays's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous emotional fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, War

sarrie's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Absolutely lovely - This was such a bittersweet but lovely read.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Violence, Antisemitism, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death

torrentsofhayl's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexual assault, Murder, Colonisation

Minor: Child death

novelteapixels's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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"He’ll find her when she is falling to pieces or when she’s whole. There’s comfort in that. Comfort in knowing he’ll be there when no one else can be.” 
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Heartbreak, Love, Tragedy, and Lies all wrapped together in a peach stained satin bow. 
This book perfectly captures how fast life can go by and how love can be the only thing holding you together. 
I feel like any lovers of either The Invisible LIfe of Addie Larue or Circe would DEVOUR this story. 
It truly captures the destruction that war has caused the world and how humanity can be hard to find, no matter the decade. I found myself not able to put this book down and crying randomly while thinking about how lonely being immortal truly sounds. 
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If I were to describe this book with 2 songs I would choose : 
-The Prophecy By Taylor Swift and Evermore by Dan Stevens 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Racism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Violence, Medical content, Grief, War

mlgilliland's review

4.5

emotional hopeful mysterious sad slow-paced

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This is such a beautiful story. I would have loved to understand the MMC more. Anna is a fierce and protective FMC who just wants to do some good in the world. I liked the way the fantasy elements are woven into the historical events. Anna is not only seeing the beauty in the world but the ugly truths of it as well.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Violence, Vomit, War

eveenala's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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I didn’t cry because the book was sad, I cried out of just pure emotion. Of being seen. Of feeling love. Of watching others in pain and being helpless to stop it. Of finally getting confirmation of your feelings being reciprocated.
It’s such a beautiful telling of a woman being loved by a being who knows her and is fascinated by her as a person. Who sits back and just marvels at her from afar. While she goes off and learns of deep sadness, pain, and love as she shifts with the world around her. 
8 Centuries. EIGHT CENTURIES of history and growth and love. And as the reader, you feel those 8 centuries as they pass. 
And I’m waiting for the audiobook of book 2 to come out. The narrator did such a wonderful job I can’t imagine inhaling this story any other way. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Abandonment, War

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Blood, Medical content, Alcohol, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Slavery

blackrein's review against another edition

2.75

emotional sad slow-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

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Slow burn, zero spice, vaguely historical and myth based themes.

90% of this book is leaps through time where the characters meet but can't stay together "because it's dangerous".

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Antisemitism, Medical content, Abandonment, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

katejones34's review

5.0

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Physical abuse, Violence, Antisemitism, War

Minor: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault

espurrr's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This book is incredible. I found this take on immortality to be refreshing and unique. Is it a gift or curse? It's what you make of it. Anna is so strong and so compassionate. She lives through so much heartache in her centuries on Earth. The romance is deliciously slow and filled with such yearning. The declarations of love and emotion are eloquent and passionate. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Infertility, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic

sirpandacat's review against another edition

4.5

emotional inspiring reflective

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment

Moderate: Child death, Misogyny, Sexism, Slavery, Violence, Xenophobia, War

Minor: Rape, Vomit