Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Darkest Temptation by Danielle Lori

38 reviews

ecravens's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Kidnapping, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Vomit, Animal cruelty, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, Child death, Addiction, Gore, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Confinement, and Death of parent

anglerfishinariver's review

dark funny medium-paced

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

1.5

I'm not sure if any of you read mafia x reader stories when you were a child, but it's pretty much that, including the "I'm so different" pampered rich girl as a main character and the "I'm going to punish you but I can never bring myself to cause I have a soft spot for you" male lead. Only now also featuring veganism, because you can't hurt animals, but dating a guy who abuses you and forbids you from saying no to his sexual advances and murdered people is completely fine. Also the main character was the dumbest main character I have ever seen in my life. 
I'm rating this 2 stars because the spice was okay and because it was sometimes funny. 
Now, so you know what you're getting into, here are some of the worst parts in the book: 

"He smiled. "Three thousand six hundred and fifty-two is a sum I could only aspire to meet-that is, if we're taking leap days into account. If not, minus two, and I may have a better shot." 
Did he just do the math in his head? God, that was... hot." 
- Yes, because being able to calculate 365×10+2 is truly a hard calculation. 

"She was giving Ronan those big dark eyes that would be impossible for even Hitler to resist." 
- Do I have to add anything? 

"I can take your IUD out in this alley, and we can get started right now." 
- No. 

"I could fight him, but now his masculine scent surrounded me and confused my senses. His warmth soaked into my skin, forcing the resistance to melt within." 
- Having sex with someone you don't want to have sex with because he smells good and is warm. 

A last note: This book needs trigger warnings for the shit it light-heartedly drops on you. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Death, Emotional abuse, and Gun violence

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Pedophilia, Trafficking, Child abuse, and Slavery

Minor: Domestic abuse and Incest

kitsuneru's review

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes

5.0

ronan is so funny but also so perfect and gah. mila pissed me off near the end. like dude i hate when characters don’t communicate and talk about their feelings. like this book could’ve been shorter if they just talked. but it was a happy ending so ig i’ll let it slide. and also i love ronan so much he’s so 😩 i will defend him till the day i die.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Cursing, and Gun violence

danyclarice's review

dark tense slow-paced

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

2.0

Where do I even start with this one?

I personally found it too difficult to suspend my disbelief when it came to Mila and Ronan's relationship. Up until about 75% into this book, the plot revolved around Ronan's sick sexual fantasies and Mila's daddy issues. I mean, cool, great- very twisted and dark- but fine I can get round that. Just please, please add something else to the plot! Everything was rushed and wrapped up at the end leaving the middle incredibly boring that made it hard to keep going. 

There were a lot of side characters and side plot lines like Mila's mother, Nadia, Albert; I would have loved to have delved deeper into these characters to flesh out the main plot. 

Ronan is a an absolute psychopath, and unlike Christian who took himself to therapy and showed genuine compassion, I just couldn't bring myself to root for Ronan and Mila to end up together. Fine, yes, the ending was incredibly sweet as expected of the author in this series but overall, definitely this book is an outlier in this series. 

Spice Rating: 3/5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Kidnapping, and Murder

zayyssa's review

dark medium-paced

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

2.0

This killed the series. Even in my Russian-mafia standard this was off. There was tension, yes, but there was no chemistry. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Murder, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Confinement, Child abuse, Death, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Sexual content, Torture, Infidelity, Kidnapping, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Trafficking, Physical abuse, and Gaslighting

Minor: Grief, Drug use, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, and Drug abuse

Stockholm Syndrome. Emotional Torture. Manipulation. Forced confinement in one room. Female MC tied to bed, naked.

iemilia's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Violence, Sexual content, and Blood

things100's review

dark mysterious sad fast-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

Awful disgusting you can’t have the mmc do the stuff that Ronan did to the fmc and except the audience to want them to be together after all that. Like just no it’s Stockholm syndrome and abuse. I love dark romance but this book is not dark romance this is abuse you can only come back from so much and have the audience like the mmc but after what he did

pretending to be her protector and friend for WEEKS then just turning it off and keeping her hostage as your fucking sex slave like bitch why would we like you after that!!!!!

just a super problematic book. The only reason I finished it was because I had read the other two in the series. I gotta say the series has gone down hill since the first book. Christian in the second was tolerable but I hated him most of the book but Ronan is just a fucking monster that deserves to be alone 😡. Will not be continuing this series and will not be reading anymore of her books

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Alcohol, Blood, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Sexual content, Gore, Violence, and Cursing

Moderate: Medical content and Trafficking

claravek's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Death, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Death of parent, Body horror, Child abuse, Sexual harassment, Kidnapping, Murder, Stalking, Toxic relationship, and Trafficking

reisingerovaa's review

dark lighthearted tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Medical content, Cursing, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Trafficking and Stalking

Minor: Pregnancy, Addiction, and Animal death

samberrie's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Blood, Death, Sexual assault, Trafficking, Vomit, Sexual content, and Kidnapping