Reviews tagging 'Stalking'

Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder

3 reviews

ekcd_'s review

adventurous tense 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? It's complicated

2.0

I read this in high school (15 years ago) and I have thought about it regularly since then. What a good book it was, how I knew it was the beginning of loving fantasy. 

Decided to read it again and uh. It’s kinda bad? The prose is trash, like truly trash. FMC is a little annoying, a little too situationally perfect. Valek is whatever. Of course the only loveable characters are the hulking loyal body cards Yelena befriends by being ~so smol and fierce~

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Torture, Deadnaming, Toxic relationship, Violence, Gore, Abandonment, Death, Drug use, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Stalking, Addiction, Kidnapping, Sexual violence, Child death, Blood, Vomit, Child abuse, Transphobia, Adult/minor relationship, Outing, and Suicidal thoughts

aseel_reads's review

dark medium-paced

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

2.0

this had so much potential and it just flopped so bad. the magic system was quite vague and i don't see the point of its addition. the story was quite predictable as well. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Rape, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Trafficking, Sexual violence, Medical content, Murder, Blood, Child abuse, Confinement, Vomit, Violence, Torture, and Stalking

siglerbooknook's review

adventurous challenging emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Child abuse, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Murder, Slavery, Stalking, and Kidnapping

Minor: Mental illness

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