Reviews tagging 'Violence'

There Is No Devil by Sophie Lark

40 reviews

mayjulyn's review

dark tense

• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Child abuse, and Torture

Minor: Suicide and Alcoholism

spatterson7's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Body horror, Gore, Emotional abuse, Cursing, Suicide, Torture, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Abortion, Alcohol, Car accident, Drug abuse, Drug use, Terminal illness, Cannibalism, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Animal cruelty, Grief, Self harm, and Alcoholism

lolita777's review

Didn't even want to start second book because the first one was really boring and disappointed me very much. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Violence, and Blood

aepompu's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.5

I didn’t love this one as much as the first in the duet, however it did have a very satisfying conclusion so thank God for that. 

🌶️🌶️🌶️/5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Stalking, Blood, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, and Sexual content

Moderate: Violence, Stalking, Physical abuse, Gore, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Vomit

taelorslibrary's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Violence

olivia_k_wood's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Physical abuse, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Death, Murder, Blood, and Violence

Minor: Abandonment, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Drug abuse, and Stalking

erinlaura's review

fast-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

3.25⭐️ 

I think the novelty wore off in this one unfortunately. By the middle I really wanted to look away from the train wreck but I’m not a quitter, and I don’t feel right reviewing books that I haven’t finished. So I finished it, and it lived up to my fairly low expectations. 

The first one was interesting in its unpredictability. The second one.. not so much. This went down pretty much as expected. More murder, dealing with “unfinished business” all over the place, and everyone continuing to treat the FMC Mara badly (except for the MMC Cole and his staff of course). 

We learn more about the exceedingly terrible childhoods of both of the main characters. None of it is particularly surprising, but we get to hear lots about Mara’s trauma and see her put it to use in her art, that of course is suddenly wildly successful because of course it is. 

Like in book 1, the couple has frequent interludes where they spout off eye-rollingly cheesy thoughts and dialogue. They seem to love to wax poetic about themselves and one another in a way that seems completely at odds with their usual behaviour.

The beginning started out spicy but didn’t really escalate much or stay central to the story. Of course there were little snippets, and comments made, but I really expected them to get even more unhinged as they started murdering together because sex and violence really seem to go hand in hand with these two. 

All in all, Cole still creeps me out, Mara’s clearly still very damaged from her childhood

despite some late-book catharsis

and this reads more like a cautionary tale than a romance. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Toxic relationship, Murder, Sexual content, Gore, Sexual violence, and Violence

Moderate: Body horror

kejendjsa's review

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Self harm, Body horror, Drug use, Murder, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Addiction, and Sexual content

nickbreezyreads_'s review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Violence, Stalking, Sexual violence, Blood, and Alcoholism

julianacosta_01's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Death of parent, Death, Emotional abuse, Stalking, Alcoholism, Blood, Murder, Suicide, and Violence