You need to sign in or sign up before continuing.

Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

The Veiled Kingdom by Holly Renee

16 reviews

emramo24's review against another edition

Go to review page

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

4.0

Expand filter menu Content Warnings

karen_pants's review against another edition

Go to review page

lighthearted mysterious fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? N/A
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.0

This is FILTHY. Absolute filthy, smutty garbage. I'll gladly take another. 

Dom/Sub
Enemies to lovers
Hate f***ing (it absolutely is to me)
Kinky

Anyways onto the next book. This story has enough to keep me interested right now. 

FMC and MMC are a little young for me but the smut is top tier so I forgive it.
Expand filter menu Content Warnings

theraccoonqueen's review against another edition

Go to review page

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? N/A
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

”I already crave you, even though I know you’re keeping things from me. You think an ill-shot arrow will be the thing to stop me?”

So. That ending has me speechless. Utterly and completely lost for words. I’m sitting here and I knew going in that the ending had a cliffhanger but like… I didn’t expect that ending. 

I think that this being dual-POV really drove it home for me. The fact that we keep seeing Dacre’s thoughts and they align so damn close to reality but still just a liiiittle bit off was astounding. I would have loved for there for be a bit more world building and the fantasy elements to be more prominent but that clearly didn’t detract from my rating because I’m still sitting here gaping like a damn fish trying not scream. Once I was finally able to sit down and read this book I DEVOURED it.

The banter was so good. It was fast paced once we got more lay of the plot. And the spice was spicing.  

Once I can download book 2 it’s over for my social life.  
Expand filter menu Content Warnings

kristanjenkins's review against another edition

Go to review page

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

Expand filter menu Content Warnings

byhilderbrand's review against another edition

Go to review page

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

3.0

Expand filter menu Content Warnings

barbarianmissy's review against another edition

Go to review page

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

2.0

I feel as though all feminism left the author’s body while writing this story. 

I was really excited to read this book, cause I love me a lil romatasy, but the story lacked plot, action, and even an actual love story in my opinion. The beginning was a bit of a tease cause it amped up the story to seem like it was going to be really good, but by the end, it simply sucked major butt. 

I felt like the author took all the romantasy tropes and fit them into this book rather than focusing on a unique plotline and an actual STORY. Seriously, we had: Enemies to lovers, “who did this to you”, jealousy, one bed, and of course, a FMC constantly being called small, weak, and frail training to be a warrior for some goddamned reason???? 

The two main characters made no sense together and they lacked a lot of depth. They fell in lust, not love. The possessiveness of the MMC was really unappealing and I really didn’t like the way he treated her like she was literally an object. I also didn’t like the way she was totally happy to be treated that way by him. Neither of them really had any personality that was redeemable in my opinion. Their entire storyline was about smut and possession and I just don’t jive well with that. 

This book was a prime example of an author sacrificing their own plot lines for more and more smut - which, by the end, was actually getting boring and repetitive. 

I understand how this book could be somebody’s cup of tea, but it sure as hell wasn’t mine.

As you may be able to tell, I was not a fan. Dunno if I’ll read the next one. I might, just cause it’s quite small and I wanna reach my reading goal for the year lol 
Expand filter menu Content Warnings

katharina90's review against another edition

Go to review page

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No

2.0

Reads like YA. Worldbuilding, characters and plot are all underdeveloped. 
Expand filter menu Content Warnings

_thebookishintrovert_'s review against another edition

Go to review page

adventurous dark tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No

4.25

No Holly, you cannot leave us hanging like that!! Thankfully we just have to make it to August, but until then I will be suffering. 

This was such a good read!! It was fast paced and I was hooked from the beginning. I love when there is a good tension between the two main characters. Sprinkle in the fact they hate each other and I am one happy reader. And the relationship between Nyra and Dacre? It definitely delivers that and some spicy goodness. 
Expand filter menu Content Warnings

mzquirk's review against another edition

Go to review page

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

3.75

Expand filter menu Content Warnings

ashboutiette's review against another edition

Go to review page

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

3.5

Expand filter menu Content Warnings