Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

The Electric Heir by Victoria Lee

29 reviews

basementofbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Medical content, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, War, Gun violence, and Blood

Minor: Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, and Confinement

readwithanne's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Sexual assault, Alcoholism, and Violence

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Eating disorder

gigglesag98's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Gaslighting, Xenophobia, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, Classism, Toxic relationship, War, Domestic abuse, Vomit, Pedophilia, Addiction, Sexual violence, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Death, Child abuse, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, Rape, Sexual harassment, and Sexual content

theminnesotawitch's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

The most wonderful book. Victoria Lee's writing breaks your heart for the characters. The world is fantastically crafted.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Pandemic/Epidemic, Alcohol, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Violence, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Grief, Rape, and Sexual violence

julesghouls27's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

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

5.0

I love this book so much, even if it hurts me to read it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Sexual assault

scjessie's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Child abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape, Murder, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

peachani's review against another edition

dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

2.75

The ending felt so rushed. It really could have used room to breathe and let us feel the full weight of the final action.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Child abuse, Confinement, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Pedophilia, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Rape, War, Xenophobia, Alcohol, Colonisation, Genocide, Pandemic/Epidemic, Torture, and Murder

Minor: Chronic illness, Bullying, Classism, Cursing, Dysphoria, Gun violence, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Ableism, Blood, Child death, Death of parent, Medical content, and Terminal illness

astravars's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

5.0

this book was a rollercoaster from start to finish

there were so many plot twists and every time i thought the villain couldn't get any worse he proved me wrong
   that said the plot itself was so well written and believable as well?? like everything was perfectly logical and there were always parts i wasn't able to predict

and the CHARACTERS especially noam and dara! i cared so much, felt so scared for them, connected to them so so well; i just wanted them to be happy, especially after what they'd already been through in book one and maybe... maybe they do get that in the end

something else i really appreciated was how much was talked about trauma and mental health, including but not limited some heavy topics like domestic abuse, sexual assault, rape, grooming and addiction (i would highly suggest checking the trigger warnings before reading)
  while i don't have any personal experience with any of those, there were still tiny fractions of their struggles i could relate to and, as i've mentioned before, it didn't matter much because i felt for them anyways 

i might have a few tiny complaints, not enough to reduce this from its 5 star rating
   

first of all i don't care how much sense it makes for the plot (and it did in this case) but i can't stand the trope of characters losing their magic... but that is just personal preference and i did think it was well handled here

   secondly i wasn't the biggest fan of the ending, mostly because it happened so fast?? i was actually surprised when it was just... over;
it's partially personal preference here again because i don't like open endings and while this one wasn't entirely open it wasn't fully resolved either

BUT the epilogue definitely saved it <33

in conclusion: if you're in for a lot of pain and gay pining you should read these books, you might regret it at some points in the story but i promise it's worth it in the end

+ honourable mention: jewish main characters <33

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Rape

kirstyreadsblog's review against another edition

dark emotional 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: Rape, Alcoholism, Sexual assault, and Addiction

josisbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Gore, Domestic abuse, Drug use, and Eating disorder