Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

Flames of Chaos by Amelia Hutchins

10 reviews

srandazza's review against another edition

medium-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

1.0

The concept for this book was so much better than the execution. I’m so disappointed to be giving this book 1 star because I really wanted to like it. It actually started off really good but after the first chapter it went downhill very fast. This book was LASER FOCUSED on the angry hate smut between the two main characters. I’m not exaggerating when I say the mention of sex is constant. The word Pussy was used 78 time, Cock 100, times and word Fuck 980 times. The actual sex scene had numerous consensual issues that could definitely be classified as rape. There is an Infant death scene in the book and during the funeral the two MC’s actually start grinding on each other. Needless to say this book should have had trigger warnings. Pornstars think of sex less than these two characters. Honestly this book kinda reads like a pornhub script. This might be one of the worst books I’d ever read if it weren’t for the last 10 pages which were actually pretty good. To be very clear I don’t recommend this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Body horror, Child death, and Rape

genhart3's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

-REAL Enemies to Lovers
-Dark
-Romantasy/ Werewolves, Fae, witches etc
-MMC Alphahole
-MFC strong, flawed, not completely realistic
-55% smut
-Constant cussing
-Dont even come close to figuring things out
-CLIFFHANGER

Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

Trigger Warnings:
Murder, suicide idealization, still-born, gore, self harm, physical abuse, child abuse, attempted child murder, mate marking, molestation, voyeurism... Probably more.
Mentioned but not described in detail: Rape, gang rape, child rape, molestation, savage mulastation, voyeurism, necrophilia, attempted abortion.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Cannibalism, Death, Rape, Alcoholism, Physical abuse, Self harm, Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Sexism, Excrement, Infidelity, Confinement, Cursing, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Murder, Sexual violence, Alcohol, Grief, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, Suicide attempt, Kidnapping, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Stalking, Sexual content, Death of parent, Drug use, Mental illness, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Blood, Bullying, Violence, Slavery, and Torture

rhaevn13'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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Miscarriage, Emotional abuse, Gore, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Bullying, Death, Sexual harassment, Blood, Rape, and Sexual violence

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

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

rachachisaur's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

0.5

The writing is truly terrible. At least half of the paragraphs are simply restatements of the previous paragraph, as though the author wrote out the concept in different ways and for some reason never deleted the drafts. Every other word is “f*ck” as though the author thinks that makes up for a lack of creative dialogue. There are several times where the ridiculousness of what is written fully rips you out of the book. The is almost no plot for the first 90% of the book, and each scene is just another setting up for more sex. Definitely read the content warnings. None of the periphery or side characters develop a personality until the end of the book, when you kind of think you may eventually like one or two of them. I almost dnf’d several times, but other reviews insisted it was worth slogging through to the end. 

Despite all of this, the last 10% of the book finally remembers that plot is a thing and sweeps you up into an actual story. I will read the second one, but with the lowest possible expectations. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Blood, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

katevhutchinson's review against another edition

I have absolutely no idea how this book made it to print. It feels like an author sat down with a bottle of wine and wrote it in a night?
I feel like, had it had time and energy spent in it, it could have had real meaning and substance. Except it was all f*** and c*** which isn't really a plot? And heavens, don't get me started on the dialogue, four pages of back and forth that could have been half a page.
Bottom line, just as everyone says, the only reason I made it this far was because it was a train wreck I couldn't look away from. Buh-bye.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Infertility, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Violence

rocksicle's review against another edition

dark tense medium-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? It's complicated

3.0

The story is good but the writing is repetitive in a lot of places. Second half of the book was much better as Aria had more agency, less the story happening to her and more her directing the story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

Moderate: Gaslighting, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Pregnancy, and Torture

thelizzielibrary's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

2.5

BIG DISCLAIMER: this book starts with a disclaimer from the author. Take it seriously. 

This book was not my cup of tea, and I honestly feel sick having finished it, but I'm rating it on writing, not my personal opinion so it's 2.5 stars. The plot is nuts, not super well put together, and the Knox sections were confusing and I skipped most of them. Also, I'm not a prude about cussing in books, I'm all for it, but my head ached trying to read 3 f***s in one sentence. To anyone who thinks Crescent City had too much cussing, this is not the book for you! 

I won't be finishing the series, I'm shocked I pushed through to finish it at all. 

TW: rape, sexual assault, murder, child death, miscarriage, misogyny, sexism, violence
^^^ take these warnings seriously ^^^

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Violence