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However, WHAT A READ 🤯 Had me on an emotional rollercoaster, crying at some spots and others routing for the characters to reek chaos on those who have wronged them one way or another.
Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
There are parts of this book that are really interesting regarding how Carlton wrote trauma, and although very triggering, it was in some ways cathartic to see messy, self-destructive portrayals of survival which we don't often see written about. Other parts are of course gratuitous which is sort of expected, but nonetheless difficult.
This book was one I felt uncomfortable reading from start to finish (which I think... you should feel uncomfortable reading like 65% of this book?), and I don't think I could ever in good faith recommend it, but I'm glad I read it, not for the plot or "spice" which again... read a different book for a fun spicy read..., but for a narrative of survival I didn't know I needed.
Graphic: Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Blood, Trafficking, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Car accident, Murder, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Body shaming, Mental illness, Pedophilia
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, Drug use
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Car accident, Murder, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Confinement, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Death, Gore, Blood, Car accident, Murder
First book was fun but this just got ridiculous, so OTT it wasn’t even sexy anymore, just distasteful
Some fun action scenes
Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Injury/Injury detail
While dismemberment and torture, as well as 'touch her and die'/'anyone who talks to her dies' themes are very similar to scenes found throughout Demon Reform Academy, Hunting Adeline includes many scenes, mentions, and descriptions of sexual assault, physical assault and abuse from multiple persons to multiple characters including the FMC, within an ongoing plot of human trafficking and the obsessive MMC destroying everything separating him from her.
Graphic: Physical abuse, Rape, Violence
Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Medical content, Trafficking, Stalking, Murder, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Minor: Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Kidnapping, Alcohol
Seriously, the author lists all of the content warnings at the front of the book, and if it's not something you or your mental health can read, please don't! Your mental health matters more than a book. 💕
Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Blood, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Car accident, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Mental illness, Fire/Fire injury
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Stalking, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail
Overall, the plot potential was absolutely there. It could have simply been gone about in a better way that didn't involve her being sexually assaulted by the man that supposedly loves her on multiple occasions. No, hime being "self-aware" doesn't earn him any points, it actually makes him worse because a lack of self control doesn't justify shit. I feel like the need to wrap so many tropes and kinks into a single character is what kept this book from being great.
Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Murder, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail