Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire by Jennifer L. Armentrout

9 reviews

glddstwmn's review

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

2.5

Like if Rae Dunn wrote Twilight.

I really wanted to like this, I enjoyed the first one and was excited to see where this led, the story itself us interesting enough but good lord, the characters have become INSUFFERABLE. 

Poppy is such a pick-me, all of their personalities (Poppy/Cas/Keiran) fell flat, they were all written in the same tone. Keiran was particularly annoying, I wanted to like him but it was the same conversation over and over and it was CRINGE af anytime he interacted with Poppy. 
This is a direct quote (no spoilers but I will put in a spoiler tag anyways)

“That’s an incredibly random question.”

It was. “I’m beginning to realize I’m an incredibly random person.”

This type of interaction of Poppy desperately trying to be qUiRkY and not-like-other-girls™️ was painful. She reminds me of Boxxy. 

Also, Malik's name was spelled both with c and a k, interchangeably throughout and I found the way that the dialogue was written made it unclear of who was speaking. 

Honestly, not sure if I will continue this series and if I do, I will DNF immediately if literally ANYONE mentions how many questions Poppy asks (is that not how conversation works??) Keiran and Cas are starting to give me the ick, and give off "hewwo pwincess" *tips fedora* type vibes and I was cringing hard in the annotations the entire time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Toxic relationship, War, Blood, and Body horror

Moderate: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Abandonment, Torture, Slavery, and Sexism

Minor: Cannibalism, Pregnancy, Suicide attempt, and Rape

dubious consent

mriaberio's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: War and Violence

Moderate: Sexual violence

octaviamcaloon's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

I adored this book! It was spicy, it was intriguing, it was mysterious and action-packed in a way that wasn't tiring.  This author makes combat/high drama scenes really interesting to read, and the romantic aspect of the story was so good (even though, yes some of the dialogue and inner monologuing was a little repetitive, I didn't mind!).  I love this thrup... couple, loved the twists, and am looking forward to joining these characters for the next one!

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Content Warnings

Minor: Body horror and Sexual violence

bookishmind_13's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Violence, and Gore

Moderate: War, Emotional abuse, Torture, Animal death, Murder, Child death, and Physical abuse

Minor: Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Death of parent, Grief, Confinement, Mental illness, Classism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Alcohol, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, and Suicidal thoughts

kaylahcc's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual violence, Kidnapping, and Child death

alyssaaskylaar's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.0

The plot is painfully slow and the writing is extremely repetitive. Barely anything happens in the entire book. The ending is exciting, but it took 600 pages to get to it!!! Not to mention, the main love interest repeatedly sexually manipulates the main character and/or completely disregards her explicitly saying “no” to sexual actions. This book was hard to read for multiple reasons. I will never understand the hype. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

amivireads's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? No

Used to love this series but now see many glaring issues and honestly would rather read more diverse books than this. 

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Content Warnings

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

eve_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny medium-paced

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

3.5

Overall Thoughts:
⁕  Because this book is more focused on the relationship between Poppy and Casteel than anything else, it was much slower to start and had less political intrigue than the previous one.

⁕ While very spicy, the dialogue was repetitive and -- when I was not in the right mindset for it -- felt boring.

⁕ The character development for Poppy and Casteel was definitely there, I just wanted more of it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, and Sexual content

Moderate: Sexual violence and Death

Minor: Child death, Child abuse, and Death of parent

pokeybear1's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual violence, Blood, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, and Child death