Reviews tagging 'Sexual harassment'

A Touch of Chaos by Scarlett St. Clair

10 reviews

skoloyian's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual assault, Rape, Violence, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Domestic abuse

Minor: Cannibalism

charliebites's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, War, Animal cruelty, Grief, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Body horror, Domestic abuse, Kidnapping, Toxic relationship, Animal death, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Confinement and Suicide

Minor: Vomit, Child death, and Alcoholism

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

elin247's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Check trigger warnings! A good conclusion to a retelling of Hades and Persephone that spans 4 books. A lot darker and longer than the previous books with many more characters POVs that shows the build up to the war and through it. Theusus' chapters were almost unbearable to read, his treatment to other characters made me despise him. I really enjoyed Dionysus' characterisation and his relationship with Ariadne. Some really hard deaths came from this book but I felt it was nesasary to develop Persophone from an innocent almost mortal to the powerful queen of the underworld. Hecates love and protection over Persephone was so great and Hermes humour really lifted this book in dark moments. Overall the characters really carried this world but the plot sometimes fell short with battles commencing fast and issues being resolved very fast

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Rape, Sexual harassment, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Blood, Death, Gaslighting, Grief, Suicide, Addiction, Gore, Self harm, Body horror, and Confinement

sophiecountsclouds's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Vomit, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Sexual content

Moderate: Rape, Suicide, Grief, Sexual harassment, Blood, Murder, and Death

Minor: Pregnancy

amycourts's review

fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, War, Suicide, Torture, Cursing, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, and Sexual harassment

TW Sexual violence, rape These books are truly awful, the plot holes are enormous, how things get from this to that are forever all over the place. But the others were mostly the “leave me alone with my trash.” The sexual violence in this was other level and disturbingly so. And from the jump. She does not write it well — meaning, sometimes it’s written as though the person being assaulted enjoys it — and rape is extremely graphic. Take care. Not sure this was worth it.

hannahjones27's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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

Well guys… I did it. I finished the series. And I’m crying 😭 I cannot begin to tell you how much I love this series and how much it means to me. Hades will forever and always be my first book boyfriend 😂

But in all seriousness, this story was great. Honestly a perfect final installment of Hades and Persephone’s story. I loved all of the split POVs (except Thesus’. I would’ve rather thrown up than read those). The characters were great, the plot twists were great. I really did not know what was going to happen in the story and I am still kind of shocked by how it went. 

I really can’t wait to see what Scarlett will do with Aphrodite and Hephaestus. I just hope she lets Hades in those books a little 😉

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Death, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Sexual content, and War

duckymcduckerson's review against another edition

funny

3.75

Not bad, its way funnier 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Suicide, War, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Pregnancy, and Sexual assault

louiebug10's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

0.25

I loved this series so far until I read to about the 200 page of this book. I can no longer recommend this series.

The book was jumping from character to character in each chapter and there were many events going on. There’s so much action that it almost feels confusing.

However there is a VERY graphic detail from Theseus POV. I felt like I had begun reading a chapter from a King novel. It just kept getting worse. The perpetrator POV was disturbing. Theseus descriptions were being built up. I disliked the author’s writing to build suspense/draw attention just made me sick. Then all of a sudden the story switches and a new chapter starts.

There is a warning in the beginning of the book prior to the first chapter.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: War and Sexual content

georgiamaybrogden's review against another edition

fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated

2.5

Glad that there was real consequences of war with major gods dying, but it ended so quickly? Where’s the consequences of those gods dying? Why was the final battle so quick?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Slavery, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Rape, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Incest