Reviews tagging 'Grief'

God of Malice by Rina Kent

62 reviews

readwthsam's review against another edition

2.75

dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Gaslighting

Moderate: Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts

ephemeral_remi's review against another edition

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Murder, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol

juliaaa02's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 25%

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I’m not a fan of Dub non con.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Suicide

zc2's review against another edition

3.75

challenging dark emotional funny lighthearted reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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It’s okay for dark romance but as far as stabby stabby goes there wasn’t enough gore in my personal opinion 😅. Anywho the plot was good. Too many characters to keep up with. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, War, Injury/Injury detail

amanda_reads13's review against another edition

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Killian is a true psychopath. His obsession is Glyndon. He will stop at nothing to process her. 

Tropes: noncon/dubcon, dark

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Grief, Gaslighting

siffpedersen's review against another edition

3.25

dark funny mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Grief

tammyreadsalot's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Suicide attempt

emkbookshelf's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail

bookishdaylight's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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This is a thrilling dark college romance that represents dark themes that may be sensitive to others. A story with an addicting intense chemistry between two characters, with lots of tension, and vile actions that were acted upon throughout the book. 

The main character Glyndon is a college student that is an artist who struggles with mental illness. She is closed-off and guarded with her feelings and doesn’t share the burden she feels, she is compassionate and supportive with her love ones as well as being self-sufficient and creative with her work. The love interest Killian is a obsessed, manipulative, smart and cold person. He represses the need to kill and hurt people with his own gain, to maintain control of his mind. He likes to torment people just for fun as well being cold, ruthless and remorseless. 

This has an amazing friend group despite the other friends being literally psychopaths. Friends who has great humor and witty-ass comebacks as well as the great dynamic of how they all fit in the friendship. They also have a fun and safe atmosphere regardless of the intensity and cruel conditions they’ve been. The other characters that were introduced with possible romance storylines made me intrigue of their stories and characters more. 

To conclude, I was very hooked and addicted to this whole book despite me being surprised of how intense it is, in the beginning. Lastly, it definitely has a great buildup of the intention of the characters and how well thought of on how everything took place.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail

dkgreads's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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So I didn’t realize it going into this, but this is obviously a spin off of some of the author’s previous works. Like, the second generation of characters from another series. Or two. Because of that, there were a few instances where I got the impression that we (the reader) were already supposed to know something. . .and I didn’t. Not that that’s any fault of the book, but I didn’t like not being “in the know”. Dark as it was, I liked the concept of Killian’s character and I thought his chapters were interesting. The only thing is, I felt like the pacing of the story was really fast. I wish there had been more time in the transition between hate/fear to love/trust. I also thought the mystery/conflict resolution was rushed. May or may not continue the series, or go back and read the ones that came before.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Grief, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Torture, Stalking