Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Flames of Chaos by Amelia Hutchins

4 reviews

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

zimmerlemon's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

3.0

By far the absolute crudest book I’ve ever read. I can’t honestly say I recommend it or that it is good writing, but obviously I finished it and it has a certain trashy flair I guess. Some of the tropes are fun (even though it’s also all totally over the top/overdone/really slaps you in the face). I’m hooked enough on the plot to want to keep reading the series, but can’t say I’ll ever reread or recommend it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Abandonment, Death, Cursing, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Rape, Physical abuse, Murder, and Blood

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

billies_not_so_secret_diary's review against another edition

"I'm giving up on this book. Don't get me wrong, the plot has potential and I am a little curious to discover why and who, and all that, but reading about men making threats to women about raping them, breaking them with their c***, touching without permission, and all of that BS, I'm done. A woman supposedly wrote this, but with this book, she's put women back in the stone age, even though it's present day. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Violence