Reviews tagging 'War'

A Touch of Chaos by Scarlett St. Clair

52 reviews

savannahfifield's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Rape, and Sexual violence

kristinareadz's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, War, Suicide, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Physical abuse, Confinement, Sexual assault, Blood, Rape, Sexual violence, Misogyny, and Murder

Minor: Death, Alcohol, and Kidnapping

thetaoakdown's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Murder, Infertility, Torture, Grief, Vomit, Sexual violence, Alcoholism, Pregnancy, Stalking, Suicide, War, Rape, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Sexual assault, and Death

tranvnguyen's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious sad tense 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Bullying, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Kidnapping, Rape, Sexual content, Gore, War, Violence, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

ninahuynh's review

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.75

Again, I think some of the sex scenes could be faded out or cut out and replaced with more soul-intimate scenes, if that makes sense. Some of the occurances just don't make sense holistically and I don't see Hades or Persephone going that route either. Like they just teleport from a horrid fight scene and then suddenly coitus 🤨😑  I skipped the Hades series as of this review, so it was my first encounter with the different povs and from characters other than Persephone and Hades. I enjoyed that. I think it was also a good way to transition out of this series to the next one!! I love the ending- it was sweet. I am excited to read more on Aphrodite and Hephaestus, and Dionysus and Ariadne.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Sexual violence, War, Cursing, Physical abuse, Death, Body horror, Confinement, Mass/school shootings, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Animal death, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Gore, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Ableism, Blood, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Torture, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Suicide, Gaslighting, Genocide, Grief, Chronic illness, Rape, and Sexism

mary_catherine's review

dark tense medium-paced

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

1.0

This book was unnecessary graphic and delved into issues such as trauma, sexual assault, explicit rape, suicide, and more without true reason. None of this furthered the plot or was critical to character development. It was done without grace or tact. To add insult to injury, the plot was disappointing and slow. It didn’t feel like it was well thought out and didn’t really align with vibe from the previous books. Overall many aspects of this book felt forced. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Violence, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Suicide, Death, Death of parent, Genocide, Rape, Domestic abuse, Torture, War, and Toxic relationship

jesslynn544's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-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 was quite the finale. i really could’ve done without the

descriptions of theseus graping people several times in horrific ways

but it was your standard series finale. a lot happened but it felt like more got talked about than actually happened. even with

hades in the labyrinth

it was like “she fell asleep she woke up she fell asleep she talked to some people about war and things and then she went to sleep again”. the ending was kind of confusing like i don’t know what happened? but overall i enjoyed this series as a whole and complete work of art and was sad to come to the end of these characters’ journey. in the end it was a fun ride. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual violence, Rape, Violence, Sexual content, Sexual assault, and War

Minor: Vomit and Suicide

starrylight's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual content, War, Alcohol, Grief, Suicide, and Kidnapping

Minor: Sexual assault

erkadahl's review against another edition

dark tense 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual assault, and War

rooreerosales's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: War and Rape