Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

The Sacrifice by Shantel Tessier

73 reviews

gemleigh's review against another edition

4.0

dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Murder

Moderate: Physical abuse, Vomit, Kidnapping, Pregnancy

goldensisyphus's review against another edition

2.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Stalking, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting

thelibraryofjordan's review against another edition

4.75

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Murder

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Death, Pregnancy

ogurule's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Torture, Murder

Moderate: Rape, Sexual violence

misswirum's review against another edition

2.5

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-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: Complicated

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Raise your hand if you're a victim of Shantel's misogyny and plot-writing-skills 🙋🏼‍♀️

First of all; this is not a romance. This is a (bad) thriller/erotica. Authors need to stick to the genre or be held responsible when they're not!!

The Ritual with Ryat&Blake is one of my favourite books of all time!! But after "Sabotage" I'm pretty sure the author just writes for shock value. She knows what her fans want, and what she'll "get away with". Which is OK, but I really liked her early writing style, so I'm sad 😞

I'm not bying the whole "universe" either. It's to far fetched and all the Lords do is kill each other?

The FMC is weak af, but that's not her fault. She's been groomed from a really young age. And her character description made me think of DeBrie from Arrested Development s4.... that's NOT the vibe you want 🥲🥲
The MMC is mean mean and doesn't have a redeeming bone in his body. 

I used over a month reading this book, because I wanted to DNF it every other page. The only thing that kept me going was the tiny bit of mystery; who killed Whitney and what/who is Tyson saving Lake from?
The plot's not really going forward intil you hit the 60% mark. But even tho it's a stand-alone, you're left with LOTS of questions after finishing the book. 

2.5/5⭐️
2/5📝
3,75/5🌶

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Murder, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail

ten_telegrams's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Murder

Moderate: Confinement, Gun violence, Misogyny, Rape, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail

kdelong's review against another edition

2.0

dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

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Dark romance but the plots elements had potential. unfortunately the majority of the scenes between the mmc and fmc are dubious consent at best and the text seems to try to normalize the dom/sub dynamic in a highly unlikely fashion. Not for the easily  affected by any kind of sexual violence or dubious consent dominance.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical trauma, Acephobia/Arophobia, Murder

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Violence, Pregnancy

sibb's review against another edition

3.5

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3,5 ⭐ Ty was my favorite character so I was really looking forward to his book, it started out great but got just really confusing und underwhelming halfway through. The ending was really rushed

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Blood, Vomit, Trafficking

taconaut77's review against another edition

2.25

challenging dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Murder, Pregnancy

Moderate: Gore

liber_draconis's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark mysterious tense 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: Yes

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“𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘭, 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘠𝘰𝘶’𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘸𝘭 𝘢𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘳 𝘢𝘴 𝘮𝘺 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘺𝘰𝘶.“

| 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗲 |

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

Laikyn’s wedding day was doomed the second HE walked through the door. The man who had something to do with her sisters death. And now she’s forced to marry him instead? There’s nothing saying she has to love him. But can she resist the man behind the darkness? 

“𝘔𝘦𝘯 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘛𝘺𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘊𝘳𝘢𝘸𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘥 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘴𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘦’𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐’𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘩𝘪𝘮.“

Tyson knew the deal he made with the Lords three years ago would pay off, but didn’t realize it would be HER. Whitney’s sister. She hates him, but that’s never phased him before. As long as he gets his revenge, he will make her his. 

“𝘐’𝘭𝘭 𝘥𝘰 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘐 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘺 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵. 𝘓𝘢𝘪𝘬𝘺𝘯 𝘎𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘊𝘳𝘢𝘸𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘥 𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘦. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘐’𝘭𝘭 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥. 𝘐𝘧 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘺 𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘭𝘢𝘸𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘴𝘬𝘪𝘯, 𝘐 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭.“

‼️THOUGHTS‼️

This ties with The Ritual for my favorite of the books in the Lords world. I’ve been waiting on Tyson’s book since he was first introduced. This books was so good and I enjoyed every moment of it! 

The forced marriage. The degradation. The collar 🥵 Just so delicious! I’m interested to see what happens next with this world and how that BOMB dropped at the end will play out 😏

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Murder