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Tryst Six Venom by Penelope Douglas

19 reviews

becca303's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Grief, Homophobia, Cancer, Chronic illness, Classism, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Lesbophobia, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Adult/minor relationship, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Outing, and Sexism

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Chronic illness, Classism, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Violence, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Abortion, Cancer, Child death, Sexual assault, Sexism, Rape, Racism, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Outing, Misogyny, Mental illness, Lesbophobia, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, Grief, Hate crime, Fatphobia, Emotional abuse, Drug use, and Eating disorder

thebookishb's review against another edition

emotional 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: Classism, Kidnapping, Bullying, Violence, Homophobia, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Cancer, Child death, Body shaming, Death of parent, Infidelity, Suicide, Terminal illness, Mental illness, and Grief

weird_but_fucking_beautiful's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful 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

5.0

“Thank you so much for reading Tryst Six Venom. This world will be forever hard for me to leave.” 

          Penelope Douglas 

Oh God, me too Pen, me too. 

Tryst Six Venom, Penelope Douglas’s sapphic enemies to lovers novel is the story of Clay and Olivia, high school girls from opposite sides of the tracks. navigating the trappings of society, propriety, and their undeniably strong attraction to one another.  

 

Clay and Olivia (Liv), to coin a phrase from John Mayer, are sexual napalm together. I was so immersed in their love/hate relationship that at times I forgot to come up for air. Everything from the tension of being within one another’s space, to their longing, lust filled stares were done with me always wanting more. It never felt repetitive to me, the longing, the joining, the breaking. This by no means is a great award winning literary novel and doesn’t pretend to be.  It does exactly what it sets out to do, which is to present a coming of tale with all the pitfalls and obstacles that first love encounters. This novel is what is considered a Bully Romance. I was not familiar with that term/genre so I was a little put off by Clay’s treatment of Liv in the beginning. I’m happy to have stuck with the novel because Clay’s character arc is one of its most gratifying aspects. I am a reader that envisions the settings and environments as a book progresses. I fell in love with this little slice of Florida that Ms. Douglas imagines….wait, who am I kidding, it could take place in a barnyard and I’d love it because of Clay and Liv. I am such a fangirl of this novel, but I feel I got everything I needed out of Clay and Liv’s story. I’m  absolutely not opposed to a sequel, but am perfectly content with Clay and Liv living rent free in my head with my imagination. 

 

I’d recommend this book to anyone who likes f/f romances that are wildly sexy with a twist of possessive dominance. 

 

I love this so much I’m going to buy the Eternal Embers signed edition. Every bit of 5 stars for me. 

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying

Moderate: Homophobia and Death of parent

Minor: Kidnapping

ymread's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Sexual content, Homophobia, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Death, Infidelity, Child death, and Kidnapping

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual harassment, Pregnancy, Grief, Vomit, and Miscarriage

unicornofthesea's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

Moderate: Death of parent, Grief, Kidnapping, Racism, Sexism, Alcohol, Cancer, Child death, Death, Suicide, Abortion, Classism, Homophobia, Infidelity, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Sexual assault, and Mental illness

bauerrose's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

Moderate: Kidnapping, Bullying, Cursing, Grief, Homophobia, and Sexual assault

Minor: Child death, Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Drug use, and Suicide

emilycruz1016's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Child abuse, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Toxic friendship, Death, Domestic abuse, Grief, Hate crime, Lesbophobia, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Blood, Drug use, Sexual content, Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Chronic illness, Cursing, Gaslighting, Homophobia, and Infidelity

Moderate: Kidnapping, Misogyny, and Sexual violence

Minor: Suicide, Abortion, and Adult/minor relationship

im_illiterate's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Bullying, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Death of parent, Child death, and Classism

Moderate: Classism, Colonisation, Cursing, Grief, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Religious bigotry, and Violence

Minor: Abortion

mah_verloren's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful sad 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

3.0

Bullying
Enemies to Lovers
Hot 🌶️
#Swamp

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Child death, Body shaming, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Bullying, Death of parent, Sexism, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Fatphobia, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Abortion, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Homophobia, Drug use, Domestic abuse, and Abandonment

riella_reads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark medium-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

4.75

 This was SO CLOSE to being a full 5, but there was a small section in the middle that seemed to drag on. I don't normally enjoy the enemies to lovers trope but I actually really enjoyed the mean girls premise. Like Clay was SO MEAN. Some of the things she did to Olivia, don't know how she could of got past that. The chemistry was there, though, and I routed for them in the end. The Jaeger family is so fun, they reminded me of a mix between the Shameless family and the On the Block crowd. Like Oscar Diaz is the perfect Macon in my opinion and I would love to see a book written about him, or any of the other Jaeger brothers! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Biphobia, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Homophobia, and Kidnapping