Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Hotel Magnifique by Emily J. Taylor

8 reviews

jordynkw's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Animal death, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Animal cruelty

a_cera_t0ps's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.75

This book had a good amount of exposition and additional detail. It had many romance tropes, but still kept up the main plot without cheapening the story. There was never a sudden "i just met this person but now I'm madly jealous of someone talking to them," never a romance that upends the purpose of the story. It tried to stay balanced. The romance was heavy: 50% romance, 50% plot. There are a good few unnecessary plottwists/decisions that only added so much. Overall, the book was enjoyable, even if it wasn't revolutionary.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Child abuse, Murder, Grief, Kidnapping, Confinement, Animal cruelty, Death, and Physical abuse

Minor: Torture, Slavery, Trafficking, and Medical content

katvou's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Slavery, Gore, Murder, Violence, Death, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Alcohol, Death of parent, Medical content, Physical abuse, Body horror, Sexual content, Child death, and Dementia

spookily's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.75

Lovable characters: "It's complicated" because, while some of the side characters are arguably lovable, the MC is intolerable. She spends the entire novel jumping to conclusions, acting impulsively, and excusing her own behavior by claiming that her stubbornness is a virtue, even when it puts her and her sister in greater danger. She's rude, self-centered, and extremely difficult to sympathize with or root for.

Diverse characters: "It's complicated" because the author has a weird obsession with showing off how many colors she can list for skin tones. Every single unnamed side character is described by some inane set of words like "the copper-skinned boy," "mocha" "olive" "porcelain" etc. etc.. It essentially feels like she is just filling the room with as many "diverse" looking characters as possible without having to put in the work to incorporate an actual sense of diversity into the story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, Physical abuse, Violence, Death, Torture, Blood, Body horror, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gaslighting, Animal cruelty, and Vomit

Minor: Death of parent, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Cursing, Excrement, Confinement, Alcohol, and Classism

lettigirl101's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Body horror, Classism, Animal cruelty, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Medical content, Vomit, and Violence

Minor: Ableism, Death of parent, and Abandonment

cyanscrump's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

This was a good read. The concept was very fun and I enjoyed finding out what was going on in the hotel. 

I enjoyed the unease that continued building as the hotel was explored. Yrsa's artefact was a horrifying concept to have lurking in the back of my mind the entire time.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Kidnapping, Confinement, Death, Violence, Animal cruelty, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Abandonment

monniebiloney's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious relaxing medium-paced

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

3.75

Pros:
has a wonderful setting
I liked the horror elements, especially at the beginning of the book
The ending was satisfying

cons:
The ramance fell flat. They were trying to go for some kind of enemies to lovers like tension but Idk if I just hate Enemies to lovers, or this book make it real really boring.

The main character also felt very entitled to other people's lives which bothered me. Like you are NOT owed the secrets of your aquantenses, let alone your friends. The amount of times he got mad at Bel, who wasn't even her boyfriend yet, for not telling her stuff like, was kidn go anoying.


The fact the MC also was clumbsy, but only clbsy when the plot called for it was also quite anoying.


All in all, I was planning on rathong the book 3 stars, but I felt the ending was satisfying enough to bump it up to 3.75. If Bel and the Main character weren't a couple and instead they focused more time on Beatrice, I probably would have rather the book 4.75.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Gaslighting, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Classism, Abandonment, Alcohol, Blood, Murder, Vomit, Torture, Slavery, Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, Trafficking, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

karapillar's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Emotional abuse, Gore, Death, Confinement, Physical abuse, Torture, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Grief, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Child death, Death of parent, Slavery, Violence, Vomit, Abandonment, and Animal death