Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

Flames of Chaos by Amelia Hutchins

19 reviews

prishukla's review against another edition

The writing is just not for me, too juvenile. There was some promising world-building, but the poor character development & plot development got in the way. I was hoping for something akin to Katee Roberts, but this isn't that 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny and Sexual assault

khaleesimod93's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.0

I am on the fence on how I feel about this book. The world itself is creative, interesting, and fucked in so many shitty ways. There's a lot that needs to be fixed so I definitely want to see how all this will end.

Now, the hard part. I absolutely hate Knox. I know the author warned ahead of time, but I don't see how he will change. I don't want to read more of him when he's just an egotistical maniac. I get where's he's coming from in grief, but to take it out on Aria, just no. And everything he did to her, just again no. She better end up with someone better. 

Life is a bitch, and you can let it destroy you, or you can face it head-on and show that it doesn’t define who you choose to become in life.”

“You won’t keep me, Knox. I am Aria fucking Hecate. I am a survivor. War is in my veins, and I assure you, if you do this, I will escape you. I will fight against you. I will always fight for my family. It’s in my blood and burned into my bones to protect them."

I choose my fate and my chaos, and what I allow to happen to me is on me, no one else."

“I’m a woman, Knox. We only need a few minutes to rain hell down upon men."

Now to the best parts of the book, Aria and her sisters. I adore the fire and the strength Aria has. She learns and grows. She adapts to her surroundings and never breaks for anything. She is loyal and will burn down the world for those she loves. I have hated seeing her be abused and taken advantage of. Knox has no idea what he is losing because of his quest for revenge. 

The world building is also absolutely amazing. It's complicated with so many issues and underlying complexities. I want to see the rest of the Nine Realms. I want to see all the beauty and darkness they hold. 

The writing of the dialogue is probably what I hated the most. It was just bad. As much as I loved Aria, the back and forth with Knox made me roll my eyes. It just wasn't that good. I wish it had been better and less repetitive. 

Still, I'm going to keep reading. I want to see Aria burn the world down against Knox and all those Witches who betrayed the bloodline and rules put in place. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Miscarriage, Rape, Misogyny, Sexual assault, and Genocide

th18's review against another edition

1.5

Ew. Basically a rip off ACOTAR. Mature themes but the writing was childish and the book was filled with sexism, internalised misogny and slutshaming from the first page. Reads like a 12 year olds first wattpad novel after watching twilight especially bc of her silver hair (bfr), colour changing eyes, magically hairless body and her 5ft 3 status. Seriously, one of the characters is called Luna and she's an alpha werewolf. This got boring rq and the sexualisation of the fmc including the constant pointing out of the fact that shes an innocent virgin  who desperately needs to have sex according to literally everyone was really irritating. She was also bitchy to/ abou  every other female in the story. And the author literally only threw in the mothers abuse for pity points-so it seems as it was so badly written. The plot and worldbuilding is a raggedy thread barely holding the sexual assault/ harassment scenes together.  Also surprise surprise she has never felt this way about a (blue eyed blonde haired who's a towering giant with tattoos and plenty of money oh and also the king obviously! ) man before. Lastly the ml is a weirdo - " you're starting to look like a murder victim it's giving me a hard on "   , " you're definitely a virgin - your pureness is very rare" who specialised in toxic and borderline if not abusive relationships . Wouldn't recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Violence, Toxic relationship, and Rape

Moderate: Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Misogyny, Murder, Stalking, Cannibalism, Emotional abuse, Rape, Blood, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, and Death of parent

plsnotanotherdamselindistress's review against another edition

Ew. 
Trying to summerize what I read to this point:
She is a virgin(mentioned around 17x) and according to her sisters and literally everyone she "needs to be fucked".
I do not have a problem with profanities but whatever plot could have followed I would have not been able to continue reading, but at least I know that the fMC is a VIRGIN who NEEDS TO BE FUCKED HARD, was there something elso about her ah yes her age but that I can't remember as it has not been mentioned more than 10 times...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexual content, Cursing, Sexism, and Sexual harassment

taylorsversion28's review

dark sad fast-paced

0.5

Please please look at the content warnings before reading this book. 
It’s horrible but weirdly addictive, like I want to stop but can’t 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Gore, Genocide, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, War, Violence, Toxic relationship, Torture, Sexual violence, Addiction, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Racism, Cursing, Grief, Drug use, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Sexual harassment, Murder, Misogyny, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexism, Physical abuse, and Abandonment

nmjezebel's review against another edition

fast-paced

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

0.25

Terrible. I nearly dnf several times. The world could be interesting but you can’t really tell because the characters are horrible and I hated them all. They never get better. There’s plenty of smut but it’s honestly gross because both characters just suck. Do not recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Classism, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Physical abuse, Rape, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Violence, Misogyny, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Xenophobia, Body horror, and Body shaming

Don’t waste your time.

bronteysbooks's review

dark medium-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Bullying, Rape, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Misogyny, and Sexual assault

jurdansupremacy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny sad tense fast-paced

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

2.5

I’m going to be honest with you - this is not a good book. In fact at best the treatment of women in this is fucking disgusting. But am I going to read the next one? Hell yeah.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Sexism, Sexual violence, Suicide, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Violence, War, Death, Sexual assault, Miscarriage, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Toxic relationship, Murder, Grief, Misogyny, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Alcohol and Vomit

Minor: Cannibalism, Cancer, Child abuse, and Adult/minor relationship

ka_ke's review against another edition

dark medium-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

3.0

Flames of Chaos is definitely chaotic. The story seems very chunky, there could have been smoother transitions and I wish it had taken a little more for the characters to love/hate one another. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Grief, Medical content, Misogyny, Child abuse, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Car accident, Child death, and Cursing

Moderate: Violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Rape, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Pregnancy

robinainthood's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious 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

2.0

This was...... something. I was very tempted to give this book a one star but, like, here's the thing; it was entertaining. Albeit, in the same way shitty reality tv is entertaining. Like, "God, these people suck and this is such garbage content but why can't I stop watching?" 

Anyway, this book is fun to read if you don't take it seriously--and especially if you hate read it with friends or something--otherwise just skip this one, I think. It's way too long to be this bad.

(Also, that disclaimer at the beginning was such a red flag to begin with. "caveman-like asshole" ???? ma'am???)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Violence