Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Skin of a Sinner by Avina St. Graves

27 reviews

bookboyfriend4life's review

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, Grief, and Gore

Moderate: Physical abuse, Abandonment, Bullying, Child abuse, Gore, Alcohol, Kidnapping, Gaslighting, Death of parent, Violence, Drug use, Sexual harassment, Deadnaming, Emotional abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Death, Stalking, Grief, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Confinement, Toxic friendship, and Sexual content

shannonspage's review

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.5

This book wasn’t bad but I found Isabella extremely infuriating as a FMC. She acts weak and super dependent on Roman but then is pissy he ‘left’ her for 3 years saying he was always supposed to protect her and now she’s “strong” and doesn’t need him when in reality she does

I also found one spicy scene cringy because it went like this: “He slides himself up and down my center, coating himself in my slick”. Maybe it’s just me but I hate when the FMC’s p*ssy is referred to as “my core” or “my center” or “my heat”. And wtf MY SLICK??? Not even my slickness or something else used to describe it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Death

Minor: Child abuse

s1ck4n's review

dark funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Murder, Blood, Grief, Kidnapping, Bullying, Child abuse, and Stalking

_readobituaries's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This book had been on my TBR for a minute and I am so glad I finally picked it up! Masked men and murder? I'm there! Especially when its vengeance against an abusive family (#daddyproblems) I need a Ramon so bad! Someone so obsessed. 

I will admit.. the disappearing for years was odd. Like, It was Ramon. He was constantly fighting- She should have thought to call the jail FIRST. I'd have thought to call them first before the hospital, honestly.

 

This is a guilty pleasure book for me- I had to buy the special edition because I loved it so much.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Body horror, Murder, Kidnapping, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Stalking, Injury/Injury detail, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Gun violence, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Bullying

Minor: Chronic illness

vickylockhart's review

dark fast-paced

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

5.0

You think you know what you’re getting when you pick up a dark romance (and this book is all those things) but it’s so much more! When I say I took an actual pregnancy test because I did not believe a book could have me feeling this depth of emotion, I am literally not kidding. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Sexual content

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Grief, and Child abuse

thewenzl's review

Too repetitive, characters are one-note: obsessed with each other.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Grief, Physical abuse, and Sexism

Moderate: Violence

abigailadams's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, Toxic relationship, Torture, Gore, Violence, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Murder, and Blood

Moderate: Mental illness, Body horror, Sexual assault, Gaslighting, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, and Stalking

annou_chka's review

medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Kidnapping, Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Stalking and Sexual content

dubious consent

melissaslibraryy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Not the best dark romance book I’ve read and there were definitely some things missing in regards to background info/plot but it didn’t effect the storyline entirely so it’s ok to an extent lol. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Panic attacks/disorders, Bullying, Body horror, Murder, Violence, Cursing, Toxic relationship, Gun violence, Sexual content, and Stalking

abrown04's review

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

My god this was just crazy left and right. The MMC is CRAZYYYYY. It’s hard ti believe if this was real life you wouldn’f run away screaming from Roman. I mean she hasn’t seen you in nearly 3 years and the first thing you do is jerk off with her underwear😭? Honestly if you were in the book you would be all over Roman but in real life RUN AWAY 

Read on Kindle

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Torture, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Cursing, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Body horror, and Child abuse

Moderate: Abandonment, Confinement, Addiction, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Stalking, Alcoholism, Kidnapping, Drug use, Grief, Sexual harassment, and Forced institutionalization