Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Sick Fux by Tillie Cole

7 reviews

amiipixiie's review

challenging dark fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Violence, Emotional abuse, Gore, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Mental illness, Rape, Terminal illness, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Body horror, Death, Infertility, and Murder

mermaidmomma's review

challenging dark emotional fast-paced

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

2.0

This book needs a trigger warning list a mile long, luckily I have no triggers. There were so many aspects of this book that I enjoyed, specifically the revenge plot. That being said, it just wasn't the book for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Torture, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Blood, Abortion, Sexual content, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, and Mental illness

katdjz's review

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

• 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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Blood, Gore, Sexual assault, Violence, Child abuse, Murder, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Abortion

fayerevika's review

dark emotional sad tense 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

5.0

Million stars if I could. Favorite book of the year!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Infertility, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Self harm, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Pedophilia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Sexual content

Moderate: Abandonment

The content warnings are no joke. But if you can stomach it, it will be a fantastic read for you.

kirkland433's review

dark tense fast-paced

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

1.75

100% Check Triggers/Ask for specifics. 

Nope. This was a big nope for me. Nothing in this book kept me wanting to read more. Not because the author is a bad writer, because she is not a bad writer, just the whole Alice in Wonderland theming killed it for me. One word: Bored. 

I tried to care about Ellis/Dolly and Heathen/Rabbit but I just didn't. I couldn't even convince myself that I felt sympathy for them. This is all probably a me issue. I don't love Alice in Wonderland and then adding that it as the main characters strongest traits really just put me off. Both Ellis and Heathen have fucked up lives and that's about all that stuck with me. Also if I had to hear about Heathen's black heart cracking one more time, I was going to throw the book.

So this book wasn't for me but it could be for others. On level of dark, it's not the darkest thing I've read. Yea, fucked up things happened in this book but some of the stuff that I would deem "dark" weren't talked about in detail vs other books of read (i.e. Hunting Adeline). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Adult/minor relationship, Gore, Murder, Pedophilia, Rape, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Abortion, Death of parent, and Self harm

Minor: Suicide attempt

gumiho0712's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Gore, Murder, Trafficking, Death, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Grief, Self harm, Blood, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Incest, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Torture, and Suicidal thoughts

sinful_reads's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

1.0

This was hard rating.
There were parts I loved, such as the authors writing style which drew me in and kept me at the edge. But this was overshadowed by the fact it was a dark and vile read, without a proper trigger warning list for the type of acts inflicted upon characters.
A book that involves kids as young as 10 needs some type of warning. And I will stand by that due to how explicit and degrading some of these scenes were.

My rating will most likely change after I think it over and digest what I just read. This is due to the fact my mind is still wondering why I kept going just for a mediocre revenge plot line and horrid child abuse scenes 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Rape, Murder, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, and Mental illness

Moderate: Gore, Kidnapping, Excrement, Violence, Toxic relationship, and Torture

Minor: Pregnancy, Abortion, and Self harm