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leeshy93's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
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
2.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Murder, Violence, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Torture
elcanaldevenecia's review against another edition
5.0
I don't know how long I've waited to meet Briest but I know the wait was worth it.
I love when the story is structured so that the reader can decipher the situations, be captivated by each sentence, and lose their breath every five minutes. Giana gave us a story full of action, dark elements, and the desire to taste a peach at midnight.
DMW is book # 6 in The Fallen Man Series. It is about the history that unites Priest McKenna; the man everyone fears, and the sweet but hot, Bea Lafayette. A murderer stalks Bea, and Priest will do everything to protect what is his. But on the way, he will enjoy her attention.
I can't contain all the emotions that DMW takes from you. Every song, every place, every moment; I relate it now to this book. I was blown away by Giana's talent for writing dark romance and on every page, we can see the essence of her, permeated in her words. The combination of the book, with the playlist, and with the models that inspire these characters; it's a bomb and you'll probably get burned.
Once again, thank you Giana for sharing your talent with the world.
“Light needs darkness in order to shine”.
Trigger Warnings: Cut Play, Murder, Violence, Kinky Sex, Sensitive Subject Matter, Religion Issues, Serial Killers, Psychopathy.
Spoiler
In real life, nothing is truly white or black, but a combination of both. That's how I love books because they look like we all are. Nobody is better than anybody else and all characters have the freedom to learn from others, to combine and improve.
Priest will understand when I tell him that he is one of my favorite characters in life and that everything I am loves him. The difference between the villain and Priest is abysmal and the writer captures all the essence of him, shapes him, and gives us a real character. The one everyone fears but has a heart at the end of the day. The one who questions his learning as a child and becomes a man when he discovers himself. The one who protects all those who are important to him and interposes his happiness so that they are. That character who wrecks any good boy, and changes your standards.
Bea is possibly the character I most resemble. Apart from Cosima. She understands the two most competing parts, light, and dark. She knew that in order to have what she most wanted, she needed to give a part of herself to complete herself together with Priest. The two have an inexplicable connection that no one questions, well except for a certain killer and Lou for a while, because they know that no one could be better. The Lafayettes have the virtue of finding those monsters and turning them into humans, while they find a refuge and a family.
ESP
No sé cuánto tiempo estuve esperando por un libro sobre Priest, pero quiero decir que valió la pena esta espera.
Me encanta cuando la historia está estructurada para que el lector pueda descifrar las situaciones, quedar cautivado por cada frase y perder el aliento cada cinco minutos. Giana nos brindó una historia llena de acción, elementos oscuros y las ganas de degustar un melocotón a medianoche.
DMW es el libro n. ° 6 de la serie The Fallen Man. Se trata de la historia que une al sacerdote McKenna; el hombre al que todos temen, y la dulce pero ardiente, Bea Lafayette. Un asesino acecha a Bea, y Priest hará todo lo posible para proteger lo que es suyo. Pero en el camino disfrutará de su atención.
No puedo contener todas las emociones que DMW te quita. Cada canción, cada lugar, cada momento; lo relaciono ahora con este libro. Me quedé impresionado por el talento de Giana para escribir romance oscuro y en cada página podemos ver la esencia de ella, impregnada en sus palabras. La combinación del libro, con la playlist y con los modelos que inspiran a estos personajes; es una bomba y probablemente te quemes.
Una vez más, gracias Giana por compartir tu talento con el mundo.
Spoiler
En la vida nada es blanco o negro, sino una combinación de ambos. Así me encantan los libros, porque semejan como somos todos. Nadie es mejor que nadie y todos los personajes tienen la libertad de aprender de otros, de combinarse y mejorar.
Priest entenderá cuando le diga que es uno de mis personajes favoritos de la vida y que todo lo que soy, lo ama. La diferencia entre el villano y Priest es abismal y la escritora captura toda su esencia, lo moldea y nos entrega un personaje real. Ese que todos temen pero que tiene un corazón al final del día. Ese que cuestiona su aprendizaje de niño y se vuelve un hombre al descubrirse. Aquel que protege a todos los que son importantes para él e interpone su felicidad para que estos lo sean. Ese personaje que destroza a cualquier chico bueno, y cambia tus estándares.
Bea es posiblemente el personaje al que más me parezco. Aparte de Cossima. Ella entiende las dos partes más competidas, la luz y la oscuridad. Sabía que para poder tener lo que más deseaba, necesitaba dar una parte de ella para completarse junto con Priest. Ambos tienen una conexión inexplicable pero que nadie cuestiona, bueno a excepción de cierto asesino y Lou por un tiempo, porque saben que nadie podría ser mejor. Las Lafayettes tienen la virtud de encontrar a aquellos monstruos y convertirlos en humanos, mientras ellas encuentran un refugio y una familia.
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aj_readz's review against another edition
4.0
“There's a dead man
Walking around you
In the city with no undo
In the city with all of you
There’s a dead man
In the silence of the rain
There's a sound from his chain
But he knew where he'd go when they found her
Oh my loed, if you can hear
There's a man that you fear
And he's coming your way as a gunner…”
Lyrics from “Dead Man Walking” by Nomy. Which I think specifically fits this book. Also “Demons” by Nomy could go with it as well…
Other reviewers were saying this book is so much darker than the other books in this series, so I was expecting it to be a lot worse. Yeah it’s a bit darker, but just not too dark I guess. It’s a bit longer than the previous books so it takes a while to get Priests’ whole story and why he is the way he is. Yes he’s an unhinged psychopath, but for good reason. And yes I still love him
This book gave me a renewed hatred for people who do evil, degraded, absolutely wicked things in the name of religion. I think there’s gotta be a special kind of hell for those people and the people that enable them.
The fallen family continues to hold and will probably always hold a special place in my heart. I cannot wait to read the rest of the guys, stories. Axe-Man, Wrath, Dane, Kodiak, Lysander, even Curtains. I can’t remember all of them but if in the end there are 25 books I’ll obviously read every single one of them.
One thing that did confuse confuse confuse me was why did they repeat everything three times like…
No no no
Mine mine mine
Get out get out get out
Space space space
Wrong wrong wrong
Today today today
Drip drip drip
etc etc etc…
I don’t know if it had to do with the psycho thing or what but yeah that had me wonderin.
The one thing I just could not get past was the peaches iykyk Just… Why? Like the first time whatever it was fine but the overuse of it was really starting to disturb me.
Anyways….yeah read this book. Read this series. Listen to Nomy. Wait for the rest of the books to come out. Read them too…. Just whatever Okay bye
Walking around you
In the city with no undo
In the city with all of you
There’s a dead man
In the silence of the rain
There's a sound from his chain
But he knew where he'd go when they found her
Oh my loed, if you can hear
There's a man that you fear
And he's coming your way as a gunner…”
Lyrics from “Dead Man Walking” by Nomy. Which I think specifically fits this book. Also “Demons” by Nomy could go with it as well…
Other reviewers were saying this book is so much darker than the other books in this series, so I was expecting it to be a lot worse. Yeah it’s a bit darker, but just not too dark I guess. It’s a bit longer than the previous books so it takes a while to get Priests’ whole story and why he is the way he is. Yes he’s an unhinged psychopath, but for good reason. And yes I still love him
This book gave me a renewed hatred for people who do evil, degraded, absolutely wicked things in the name of religion. I think there’s gotta be a special kind of hell for those people and the people that enable them.
The fallen family continues to hold and will probably always hold a special place in my heart. I cannot wait to read the rest of the guys, stories. Axe-Man, Wrath, Dane, Kodiak, Lysander, even Curtains. I can’t remember all of them but if in the end there are 25 books I’ll obviously read every single one of them.
One thing that did confuse confuse confuse me was why did they repeat everything three times like…
No no no
Mine mine mine
Get out get out get out
Space space space
Wrong wrong wrong
Today today today
Drip drip drip
etc etc etc…
I don’t know if it had to do with the psycho thing or what but yeah that had me wonderin.
The one thing I just could not get past was the peaches iykyk Just… Why? Like the first time whatever it was fine but the overuse of it was really starting to disturb me.
Anyways….yeah read this book. Read this series. Listen to Nomy. Wait for the rest of the books to come out. Read them too…. Just whatever Okay bye
jenhurst's review against another edition
4.0
3.5.
This is the 6th book in the fallen men series so we got to see all the other characters in the other novels. This one is about LouLou’s sister Bea and her love story with priest, the Fallen MC enforcer. This is by far the darkest story, since he’s a serial killer. I think this one was the best written and I really enjoyed the light of Bea with the darkness of Priest. The epilogue made me knock it down from 4 stars.
This is the 6th book in the fallen men series so we got to see all the other characters in the other novels. This one is about LouLou’s sister Bea and her love story with priest, the Fallen MC enforcer. This is by far the darkest story, since he’s a serial killer. I think this one was the best written and I really enjoyed the light of Bea with the darkness of Priest. The epilogue made me knock it down from 4 stars.
shanayaareads's review against another edition
5.0
I’ve read quite a few Giana Darling novels and none of them have made me feel half of what DMW has. This is categorically the best novel so far in this series. Priest? My gosh, there are no words to express how much I adore this man.
Priest was probably the most interesting character I’ve read in a long time. A high functioning psychopath, burdened by trauma, who despite his nature, cares for people even if he doesn’t know how to express that. “The devil with a heart.” As Bea would say. I don’t know how truly accurate the depiction of psychopathy in this novel was, but I found it utterly fascinating to read about Priest trying to process and understand the emotions he feels, even though he has no concept of them. And to see the way he relates to people and how that all works in the vein of his mental illness. Priest’s backstory, what little we learned of it really broke my heart. I probably sobbed the most reading this one, than I did any of the others.
I was absolutely invested in this novel from the first page and with every chapter my little obsession grew.
I’m not a fan of the virginal innocent character, but the contrast between Priest’s dark nature and Bea’s innocence, was something I liked. Simply for the fact that despite her upbringing and her religious nature, Bea has always been inexplicably drawn to darkness and so naturally, she’s been drawn to a man like Priest. I loved how she knew what he was from the get go and accepted that completely, accepted him wholly and never tried to change or try to fix him. I loved the way she understood that some people can’t be fixed and sometimes they don’t want to be. Their relationship is hands down one of my favorites.
The contrast with her devotion to religion and Priest’s own aversion to god and anything remotely religious was also an interesting thing to see play out, it became even more interesting when you’re finally made to understand why he is the way he is. The entire use of religion as the driving force of the actions of many characters in this book was absolutely fascinating to me, as someone who like Priest is Atheist. I loved though, that despite the fact that he doesn’t believe in god Priest is fascinated by the human desire to believe in god and partake in organized religion. So much so that he collects and reads dozens of religious texts in his attempt to understand this need people have to cling to any vestige of faith they can find.
Also, I adore the irony of him taking on the moniker of “Priest” considering the quality of life he lives. The way he indulges in these blasphemous acts and contorts bible verses to suit his need, utterly hilarious, imo.
All of these novels are dark in their own way, but the play on religion and a psychopathic serial killer using religion as a means to commit his crimes was such an intriguing thing to read. It’s been a long time since I’ve read anything resembling a mystery and I thoroughly enjoyed that aspect of this book. I sorely wished, however, that it wasn’t so easy to figure out who the killer was. I knew who it was before I was even halfway through with the book, though it was still nice to see it all play out.
All in all, Dead Man Walking is my favorite book in this series and probably my favorite book I’ve ever read from Gianna.
Priest was probably the most interesting character I’ve read in a long time. A high functioning psychopath, burdened by trauma, who despite his nature, cares for people even if he doesn’t know how to express that. “The devil with a heart.” As Bea would say. I don’t know how truly accurate the depiction of psychopathy in this novel was, but I found it utterly fascinating to read about Priest trying to process and understand the emotions he feels, even though he has no concept of them. And to see the way he relates to people and how that all works in the vein of his mental illness. Priest’s backstory, what little we learned of it really broke my heart. I probably sobbed the most reading this one, than I did any of the others.
I was absolutely invested in this novel from the first page and with every chapter my little obsession grew.
I’m not a fan of the virginal innocent character, but the contrast between Priest’s dark nature and Bea’s innocence, was something I liked. Simply for the fact that despite her upbringing and her religious nature, Bea has always been inexplicably drawn to darkness and so naturally, she’s been drawn to a man like Priest. I loved how she knew what he was from the get go and accepted that completely, accepted him wholly and never tried to change or try to fix him. I loved the way she understood that some people can’t be fixed and sometimes they don’t want to be. Their relationship is hands down one of my favorites.
The contrast with her devotion to religion and Priest’s own aversion to god and anything remotely religious was also an interesting thing to see play out, it became even more interesting when you’re finally made to understand why he is the way he is. The entire use of religion as the driving force of the actions of many characters in this book was absolutely fascinating to me, as someone who like Priest is Atheist. I loved though, that despite the fact that he doesn’t believe in god Priest is fascinated by the human desire to believe in god and partake in organized religion. So much so that he collects and reads dozens of religious texts in his attempt to understand this need people have to cling to any vestige of faith they can find.
Also, I adore the irony of him taking on the moniker of “Priest” considering the quality of life he lives. The way he indulges in these blasphemous acts and contorts bible verses to suit his need, utterly hilarious, imo.
All of these novels are dark in their own way, but the play on religion and a psychopathic serial killer using religion as a means to commit his crimes was such an intriguing thing to read. It’s been a long time since I’ve read anything resembling a mystery and I thoroughly enjoyed that aspect of this book. I sorely wished, however, that it wasn’t so easy to figure out who the killer was. I knew who it was before I was even halfway through with the book, though it was still nice to see it all play out.
All in all, Dead Man Walking is my favorite book in this series and probably my favorite book I’ve ever read from Gianna.
stuck123's review against another edition
5.0
A lot of my bookstagram friends said Nova was their favorite MMC but Priest was mine. I mentioned in a previous review that I had read three of the books before but way out of order so I read book 7 when it came out which kickstarted me finishing the series. I strongly disliked Bea in it because she was pretty rude to Mai, and while I have strong feelings about how crappy people were to Mai. I can see how much of a family everyone is and I guess I like that she was protective of Axe Man.
Anywho, so we have Bea in this one, she is 19 but has had feelings for Priest now for a while (you find out later that he has also had his eye on her for a while). Priest is the club enforcer and is very clearly a psychopath. It's ironic because Bea is a churchgoer and volunteers and does all of these great deeds but she loves the dark side of things and is drawn to Priest.
When a serial killer starts terrorizing the citizens of Entrance basically in her name, Priest becomes VERY protective. He starts staying outside of her window every night and they end up starting a relationship. Now he isn't slow on the trigger like some others, he is very clear that she is his for good now. At the end of the book we find out that Seth is the killer and he has all of these extreme religious beliefs and is obsessed with Bea. Once the club saves Bea and Cleo, Seth is tortured and killed and the girls start their journey of healing. During this time Bea and Priest come to grips with the fact that she is pregnant.
We finish the book seeing them a little in the future with their baby. Seeing how protective Priest was of Bea throughout the book then seeing it with their baby??? Heart eyes. He is def a fav for me and I ate this one up.
Anywho, so we have Bea in this one, she is 19 but has had feelings for Priest now for a while (you find out later that he has also had his eye on her for a while). Priest is the club enforcer and is very clearly a psychopath. It's ironic because Bea is a churchgoer and volunteers and does all of these great deeds but she loves the dark side of things and is drawn to Priest.
When a serial killer starts terrorizing the citizens of Entrance basically in her name, Priest becomes VERY protective. He starts staying outside of her window every night and they end up starting a relationship. Now he isn't slow on the trigger like some others, he is very clear that she is his for good now. At the end of the book we find out that Seth is the killer and he has all of these extreme religious beliefs and is obsessed with Bea. Once the club saves Bea and Cleo, Seth is tortured and killed and the girls start their journey of healing. During this time Bea and Priest come to grips with the fact that she is pregnant.
We finish the book seeing them a little in the future with their baby. Seeing how protective Priest was of Bea throughout the book then seeing it with their baby??? Heart eyes. He is def a fav for me and I ate this one up.
mybeastisreader's review against another edition
5.0
Everyone needs a Priest in their life!
To be perfectly honest.. I was waiting for the next book to be out before finishing this one but I ran out of patience and now I’m sad I didn’t wait because oh my, how am I meant to get over this now?
I want more Priest!
Just read it !!
To be perfectly honest.. I was waiting for the next book to be out before finishing this one but I ran out of patience and now I’m sad I didn’t wait because oh my, how am I meant to get over this now?
I want more Priest!
Just read it !!
ada33's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
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
3.25
I've read this book twice now and it's nowhere near as good as book 2 or 1, or even nova and lilas book. It's still good all the same though and they are cute together. It has a different and interesting plot line to the others and much kinkier bdsm sex. I'd recommend it but it wasn't my favourite one.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Torture, Car accident, Kidnapping, and Violence