Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Knotted by Pam Godwin

8 reviews

ronnieex's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Sexual content, Rape, Abandonment, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Kidnapping, Murder, Pedophilia, Child abuse, Cursing, Gun violence, Torture, and Death

elislittlelibrary's review against another edition

dark 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? It's complicated

I think this was the most disgusting book I've ever read. Yes, this may be "dark romance", but that does not make the things that happen okay. The relationship is very, very toxic and the "therapy" he puts her through is outright appalling. The biggest issue I have - his behavior is not at all addressed and the

book ends with them being a happy couple (and them being portrayed as a healthy couple. Nothing was healthy about that).

Not no mention most of the plot is entirely unrealistic, but that's the smallest issue. 
I'd suggest you don't read this book, but if you want to, please, please look at the trigger warnings closely and know that what happens is probably worse than what the warnings suggest, this is intense.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Alcoholism

wordswithjenn's review

dark emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Alcoholism, Sexual content, Violence, Sexual violence, Death of parent, Rape, Abandonment, Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, and Panic attacks/disorders

ktmcd26's review

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

1.0

The first chapter of this book is good and then it rapidly goes down  hill. To put it simply, this book is just a bouquet of abuse. Sexual, physical, and emotional. This book glorifies manipulation and control, while oversimplifying PTSD and other forms of complex and long term trauma.

The main male character is a self-absorbed 22 year-old prick who knows nothing and thinks he k owns everything. Despite the fact that he claims to love the main female character, he does not respect her at all. The only boundary of hers he respects and doesn’t push is the one he doesn’t have a sexual fantasy about. In the manner of a week and half, him and his BDSM sexual techniques called “therapy”(that he devised from some light Googling) cure years of horrific trauma while insulting and looking down on actual therapy practices and techniques. And the small portion of abuse that is presented to be horrific is even told in a sensationalized way. 

On top of all this, the plot outside of the relationship is so convoluted and unbelievable. Somehow every single character in this story only manages to jump to the most extreme “solution” to their problem. I will not be reading the others in this series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Sexism

candelibri's review

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

2.25

MMC can help “heal” the FMC because he read extensively online about trauma therapy? Dude, you’re 19, 20 at most. You’re not a licensed anything to be administering any sort of therapy or guidance. (Especially whatever it is you’re doing here!!) And you had your own issues to work through which was never touched on. Just…ugh. What an entire miss. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence and Rape

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

sniderbeebooks's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful fast-paced

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

4.0

Pam Godwin just sends me. Every time. This book, like her others, destroyed me many times over and somehow managed to win me too.
I will say that the emotions when things were 'good' didn't quite counter the intensity of the angst and emotions when things weren't so good. It tapered off a bit. Or it somehow felt a little anticlimactic. 
I really loved it though. 
Read Pam Godwin when you want to feel things!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual violence, Emotional abuse, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Death of parent and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Car accident

meliroo's review against another edition

dark

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship

reader118's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Abandonment, Blood, Cursing, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Car accident and Alcohol