Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

An Unseen Attraction by KJ Charles

8 reviews

ramakn22's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, and Homophobia

Moderate: Animal death, Abandonment, and Emotional abuse

cyberhavok's review

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, and Sexual content

Moderate: Bullying, Ableism, Alcoholism, Animal death, and Death

Minor: Suicide, Homophobia, and Racism

wilybooklover's review

emotional mysterious medium-paced

3.0

This is described as a slow-burn in the blurb but

the main characters have expressed their attraction and kissed by the 10% mark and the first sex scene is around 20%...

that’s not slow-burn to me! That’s way faster than average! 

Between the characters getting together so early and Clem’s reluctance to delve further into the mystery in the first half, the story does lack some momentum. It picks up a little in the second half but it took me a long time to read this for so few pages. 

Still, Clem and Rowley made a very cute couple and I enjoyed how quiet their relationship was, and how appreciative they were of each other. They were both very intriguing characters; Clem who is coded as autistic and of Indian heritage, and Rowley who is a short and skinny taxidermist. I like how KJ Charles tends to write characters outside of the usual you tend to find in romance. The mystery was quite interesting once it got going, if predictable. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual content, Death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse, Torture, Bullying, Animal death, Physical abuse, and Alcoholism

Minor: Colonisation, Suicide, Racism, and Homophobia

20sidedbi's review against another edition

mysterious slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Classism, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Mental illness, Homophobia, Ableism, Animal death, Blood, and Racism

Minor: Xenophobia, Infidelity, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, Torture, Colonisation, Death, Blood, Child abuse, Forced institutionalization, and Suicide

the_vegan_bookworm's review

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Injury/Injury detail, Death, Murder, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Racism, Classism, and Fire/Fire injury

mandkips's review

adventurous emotional mysterious tense 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Alcoholism, Torture, Violence, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Homophobia, Racism, and Suicide

booksthatburn's review

dark emotional informative reflective 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? It's complicated

4.0

AN UNSEEN ATTRACTION is a sexy historical murder mystery with great intimacy, communication, and explanations of taxidermy. 

Clem and Rowley's relationship is great to read. They don't have the best communication quite yet, but they're continually trying to understand each other better even before becoming a couple. The sex scenes fit the characters and shifted between developing their relationship and showing how it was deepening outside of those sensual moments. The murder mystery is very engaging and the resolution made sense without being too obvious. The stakes are very clear and the antagonists at interesting, I'm looking forward to seeing how the series moves on given how things turned out. The secondary characters don't get nearly as much time as Clem and Rowley (for obvious reasons) but their personalities come through really well and their various reactions to the very stressful circumstances made sense. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual content

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Sexism, and Violence

Minor: Animal death, Domestic abuse, Suicide, and Torture

obviousthings's review

emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Murder, Torture, Ableism, Alcoholism, Animal death, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, and Violence

Minor: Death of parent, Suicide, Racism, Gun violence, and Homophobia