Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever

17 reviews

himboluvr's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

toxic gay people > they are terrible people and this book is fucked up but it’s beautiful and complicated and i want it tattooed on my eyeballs

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Animal cruelty, Mental illness, Animal death, Murder, Classism, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual violence, Death, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

enyltiak's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Grief, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, Death of parent, and Stalking

Moderate: Homophobia, Classism, Child abuse, Animal death, Antisemitism, Blood, Cursing, Drug use, and Suicide

Minor: Forced institutionalization, Genocide, and Vomit

iridaceae's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, Self harm, Sexual violence, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and War

Minor: Abandonment, Addiction, Animal cruelty, Antisemitism, Body shaming, Cancer, Car accident, Child abuse, Colonisation, Drug use, Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Gun violence, Police brutality, Racism, Torture, and Vomit

lushily's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

I adored the writing in this book. It reminds me of both Heavenly Creatures and The Secret History. It's incredible that this is his first novel. I ended up reading this by accident because I heard a recommendation for a different book called These Violent Delights and ended up reading the wrong book but I'm glad I did haha. I didn't absolutely love the way the story unfolded, but I'm a sucker for extremely fucked up protagonists and depictions of toxic relationships. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Suicide and Suicidal thoughts

zoemenon's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Homophobia, and Antisemitism

kb13's review

dark emotional mysterious sad slow-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? Yes

2.25

I read this book on a reccomendation from Booktok and while I finished it I didn't exactly enjoy it. For most of the novel it felt like it was trying to build up the characters to be more complicated or "mysterious" than they actually were. The two main characters reminded me of the preteniousness of Gatsby in the Great Gatsby and maybe that was the point the author was trying to go for but it didn't land well for me.

Finally, the motivation for the murder wasn't clear to me. I felt like either there needed to be more build up of why the main character was driven to commit a murder or a stronger motive - the violence just didn't make sense to me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Homophobia

rosieposie_5_'s review

dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-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

5.0

I can’t say this is a perfect book — I only just finished it and listened to it via audiobook — but I can say that it is memorable. 

Paul, our main character, is a withdrawn and angry kid(only 16–17) going to college with people he cannot relate to. until… Julian comes in. Julian is so different in upbringing and personality but carries the same kind of sadness and loneliness that Paul does. Immediately they click, and immediately it’s obvious that they are terrible for each other. The development of their relationship and the directions it takes never come as a surprise but they still come together to create a haunting picture. 

This is not a book with a happy beginning, middle, or end. It is not a book with heroic and happy characters. These Violent Delights is a book where the protagonist and antagonist are the same person. 
The relationships and people are realistic in their shortcomings and mistakes and emotions and it is tragic.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Murder, Suicide, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, and Self harm