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Exodus by Kate Stewart

42 reviews

bixmer613's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Blood, Gun violence, Emotional abuse, and Grief

Minor: Cursing, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Alcohol

kat1105's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Drug use, Abandonment, Gaslighting, Grief, Death, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Violence, Alcohol, and Blood

lexi_hexi's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense fast-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Gun violence

Moderate: Alcohol

kyrstin_p1989's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

Heart-breaking. I started this novel hating the protagonist but through the twist and turns of the story truly felt my love for her blossom. She grows up, so much, over the course of the book and that growth is realistic not contrived. The line that everyone on TikTok is devastated over doesn’t disappoint. This book was devastating on several levels but ended on a happy note. Excited to finish the series & get some closure for all the characters’ storylines. The one downside I noticed was some glaringly obvious misspellings that the editor missed but otherwise this book was so enjoyable to read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Blood, Classism, Death, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Grief, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Stalking, Violence, Vomit, Abandonment, Abortion, Cancer, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual violence

sienasummerrreads's review

challenging emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense 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? N/A

4.5

I enjoyed this second book way more then the first. It was an emotional read all the way through about lies, deception and healing. I loved Cecelia’s character development in this and how strong she became through the second half of the book. For someone who is drawn to people leaving or not choosing her it was deep with raw emotion. 

I did not cry through Exodus at all and I will never experience what everyone else felt due to the below:

Unfortunately I was spoiled with the major incident in this book which really upset me. 2021 and 2022 a viral clip of audio went around of the Ravenhood Trilogy on TikTok. I didn’t know what it was at the time and I avoided it as much as possible but it was so distinct that it ruined the chapter experience as I saw what was coming. 

If you love:

🔹Brotherhood 

🔹Enemies To Lovers 

🔹Estranged Families 

🔹Lies & Deception 

🔹Emotional 

🔹Healing Journey 

Genre/Type: Mysterious Romance Suspense 18+

APK: Physical / Audiobook

Pages: 435

Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟.5

Spice: 🌶️🌶️.5

Series or Stand Alone: Series - Book 2 in  the Ravenhood Trilogy 

Tropes or Themes: Mysterious, Enemies To Lovers, Workplace, Age Gap, Suspenseful, Emotional. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Gun violence

Moderate: Grief

aalysad's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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

I got two words for this book, daddy issues. BUT I absolutely loved it! This book broke me. I’m at a loss for words. I loved Cecelia with Dominic and Sean, but they had nothing on Tobias. This series is turning into a favorite no matter how toxic and sad. I feel like so much happened in this book. Also, audio was incredible 🤌🏻

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Physical abuse, Murder, Abortion, Blood, Death, Misogyny, War, Toxic relationship, Gun violence, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, and Violence

jfb0622's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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

5.0

Never sobbed so hard while reading a book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Gun violence

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Drug use

ellielot's review

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

5.0

This book literally ruined rainy days for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence and Panic attacks/disorders

kerttuli's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Sexual content, and Death

Moderate: Grief, Emotional abuse, and Gun violence

jen1804's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

1.5

This book is about 30 pages of answers and 400 pages of crap. I don’t know how this gets as many 4 and 5 star ratings as it does!?!?!?!? The number of times I wanted to DNF this book… absolute waste of my time.
I can’t understand how an author can write so many words and yet tell the reader nothing? This book is chaotic, repetitive, overly dramatic and all the characters are so angry and hostile all the time. It’s so poorly written that half the time I’ve not got a clue WHY they’re so angry because the whole thing is so evasive and their extreme emotions are rarely explained. The first 70% of this book is 100% a 1 star, it’s boring and the one bit of action which passes for interesting again doesn’t make sense at the time and what follows is more evasiveness, gahhhhh. All the relationships explored in this book are so toxic and the FMC is so pathetic, whiny and dislikable. It gains a 0.5 because at least I got given some answers at the end of this book to help explain what the hell has been going on. It has left me feeling as though the entirety of book one was redundant though and I’m not left satisfied with how it ends but I shall not be reading book three.
Satisfactory ending? Nope.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Toxic relationship, Blood, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, and Violence

Moderate: Drug use, Alcohol, Grief, and Vomit