Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

There Is No Devil by Sophie Lark

6 reviews

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

lesleivalery's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Death

Minor: Abandonment

allymurphy's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-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

4.25

Very enjoyable, almost seems like both books could’ve been one with each being a different part. Finished both in one sitting each

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Grief, Abandonment, Addiction, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Pedophilia, Self harm, and Sexual content

golden_like_dior's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Abortion, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Murder, Pregnancy, Grief, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Sexual content, Violence, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Gore, Self harm, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Blood, Bullying, and Cursing

ymread's review against another edition

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cursing, Murder, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Death

Minor: Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Stalking, Abandonment, Alcohol, Body shaming, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

nisha_nee's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-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? Yes

4.75

Continuing where the story picked off from There Are No Saints, Cole and Mara are now living together while Shaw is still left on the loose with the officer in charge none the wiser. This final book in this duology couldn’t have been a more perfect addition and closing to this wonderful story. To be honest, I was hesitant in picking this whole duology up because of its story content (ahem sERIAL KILLERS!). So it was surprising how much I’ve enjoyed this story, the world, the characters, and the writing. This duology is my first taste with the dark romance subgenre and is it wrong to say I’m interested in more?? Anyway, I’m no expert on this subgenre seeing as I’m very much at a noob level but this book, considering the content, theme, and subgenre was surprisingly less gritty (which was fine to me because I prefer to get minimal gore as I can get) and less toxic if there’s ever a better wording for it. Knowing that it is a serial killer romance, I had no preoccupations that the relationships in this book would be any closer to healthy relationships and I don’t expect them to, however, I am at a loss of how Mara and Cole blew my expectations away. I adored this book because of the characters. I fell in love with them, their dynamics and I can’t get enough of them that I wish there’d be a spin-off series with Cole and Mara doing the occasional cameo. Please, author 🙏. On a final note, the author has discussed important themes in the story and I encouRAge you to take the chance with this duology. 

Pros: dual POV, great writing, if you love the characters you will love this second book, villain origin story 😉

Cons: too short! the author needs to write more books about Mara and Cole but here are the reasons I think readers may not like: numerous graphic descriptions of intimate scenes, less gory, gritty, and twisty unlike book 1, the plot picks off at the last 20%
Spice level: 🌶🌶🌶🌶 (frequent, focused, + descriptive)

Recommended for: those who are in the mood for something dark but also emotional and prefers character-driven stories (provided they adored the characters from book 1)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse and Torture

Minor: Abandonment and Abortion