Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

Nightfall by Penelope Douglas

9 reviews

kurliesue1228's review

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Cursing, Physical abuse, Violence, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, and Addiction

Minor: Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Car accident, Suicidal thoughts, and Pregnancy

clindsey73's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Violence, Domestic abuse, Sexual content, Misogyny, and Cursing

Moderate: Infertility, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Murder, Blood, and Misogyny

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Death, Drug use, Bullying, Confinement, Alcoholism, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

readingwithkim_'s review

challenging dark emotional slow-paced

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

4.5

🔥 Move aside Damon Torrance, because William Greyson III has completely stolen my heart, leaving no trace behind!

🖤 For over 75% of the book, I was an emotional wreck, thanks to Penelope Douglas. Tears flowed, frustrations rose – I wanted to both hug Will tightly and shake some sense into Emory!

🎠 Emory's transformation was admirable, but did she have to shatter Will into a million pieces? I understood her struggles, but oh, the agony of watching Will's heart break over and over again!

🖤 Will's yearning for Emory's love was gut-wrenching, his desperation palpable. Yet, his grip on her was so tight, he didn't realize he was pushing her away until it was too late.

🎠 This rollercoaster of a story leaves you torn between alliances, questioning who's right and who's wrong. With twists that keep you on the edge, I couldn't bear to put the book down, yet dreaded reaching the end.

🖤 And let's talk about the steamy scenes – Will brought the heat like no other! Each encounter adding depth to the plot, enhancing the allure of their connection.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Self harm, Eating disorder, and Sexual content

booklloveer101's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious sad tense 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Misogyny, Violence, Grief, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Sexual violence, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Addiction, Blood, Bullying, Death, Kidnapping, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Stalking, Child abuse, Cursing, and Physical abuse

_youfloweryoufeast_'s review

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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

3.5

3.5 ⭐️


Genre: Dark Romance
Age group : Adult
POV : First person / multiple POV
Characters: 4/5 ⭐️
Plot: 4/5 ⭐️
Setting/Themes: 4/5 ⭐️
Writing: 2/5 ⭐️
Spice : 4.5 ⭐️

• Please check TWs & CWs
• mature language, sexual scenes, sexual assault,
mentions of pedophilia, mentions of sexual abuse of a child, drowning, violence, death, gore, domestic abuse,
abuse of a minor, substance abuse, addiction, self harm & etc
• Dark romance
• Tropes : Miscommunication, revenge
• HEA

"Be Lilith," the girls said.
Athos pulled the Red Death over her eyes, all of us setting off as she whispered. “Never Eve."

Oh wow holie. This was a great end to the series. I can now say for sure that Will & Kai are my faves out of the entire lot. So much to unpack but nightfall was probably the most interesting and least misogynistic one out of all 4. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Pedophilia, Rape, Confinement, Murder, Sexual assault, and Mental illness

coligmueller's review against another edition

3.0

The book was ruined because they spent too much time trying to round out the series (which they did not do well) rather than focusing on Will and Emory. Also the complete 180 with Alex and Aydin was ridiculous.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Kidnapping, Medical content, Toxic friendship, Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Drug abuse, Confinement, Drug use, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Stalking, Addiction, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

tristaesque's review

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Blood, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Pregnancy, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Addiction, Drug abuse, Alcoholism, Cursing, and Death of parent

noveltay's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

If you like miscommunication, toxic relationships, and hard to read abuse with very sweet flashbacks of falling in love: this ones a great book to read! 

This book was a good way to end the series, although this one personally was the “least realistic”. Will is hard to love for me, but the flashbacks were making me fall in love with him. Emory is very hard to love but for the wrong reasons for me.. she clearly is a victim in MANY ways, but I feel like she prolonged a lot of communication the entire book (NOT in the flashbacks though- that was reasonable given her situation). 

This book did have me fall in love with Damon even more, Kill Switch being my favorite of the series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Forced institutionalization, Confinement, Kidnapping, Murder, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Toxic relationship, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Death of parent

tearstoflowers'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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Cursing, and Murder