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Gothikana by RuNyx

21 reviews

marinajonesreads's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

2.0

I got through it. Solid 2. The writing was at time pedantic and the plot lacked a lot of substance. I think we I saw “gothic romance” I was thinking along the lines of Adalyn Grace’s “Foxglove” — a slow burn, out of time, dark romance. This was dark. I will give it that. I would strongly advise one check the content warnings before reading. But the ending just lacked so much. It kind of was just there. I felt like we’d been building to something supernatural or even just unexpected. But we instead get a Scooby Do-esq storyline. And I was still left with so many questions. And not in a fun way. This felt, at times, like one big spicy book with words around it in the vague wispy form of a plot. Ironic, I know. Would I recommend? Probably not.

But I will say, the cover, binding and sprayed purple edges are beautiful. The purple and black is such a solid choice. Love the Verenmore gold foil. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Kidnapping, Stalking, Suicide, Grief, Terminal illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Stalking, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death of parent, Incest, Blood, and Bullying

pastelbread's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis and Suicide

Moderate: Death of parent, Gore, Murder, Suicide, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Forced institutionalization, and Death

Minor: Blood, Incest, Dementia, and Torture

Passive parenting, depictions of corpses

kinsportch's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Murder, Suicide, Death, and Mental illness

Moderate: Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Dementia

Minor: Incest

xapoptosisx's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

4.75

This book is something else in a good way, it was creepy but I loved it. I definitely need more books set in this world. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Cursing, Sexual content, Murder, Suicide, Death, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Dementia, Grief, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Pregnancy and Incest

cheriepie's review against another edition

slow-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

0.5

Wattpad writers are getting too bold these days. 

A five star reading experience in a point five star book though. I don’t think I’ve ever laughed so much. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicide attempt, Forced institutionalization, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Dementia

Minor: Incest

The schizophrenia/psychosis in this book is handled with about as much care as your bags on Delta Airlines. Corvina's schizophrenia is almost always romanticized in some way (usually in the "maybe she has these hallucinations because she's so witchy and intuitive" way) and Vad is constantly making remarks about being her madness or whatever. Neither Corvina nor her mother have any symptoms of schizophrenia other than hallucinations, presumably because either the author did no research or because the other schizophrenia symptoms aren't very cool and mysterious. All this while also demonizing schizophrenia -- while

Corvina's mother is portrayed as mom of the year for the most part in spite of her schizophrenia and psychosis and never poses a threat towards Corvina or herself or anyone, Corvina's choice to institutionalize her mother is portrayed as the "right" choice. Presumably because schizophrenia is just such a scary mental illness while also being what makes Corvina so cool and mysterious.

natlren's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Loveable characters? No

0.25

"Hi my name is Ebony Darkness Dementia Raven Way and I have long black hair with purple streaks and red tips and blue eyes like limpid tears and a lot of people say I look like Amy Lee (A/N: if u don't know who dat is, get the hell out of here). I'm not related to Gerard Way but I wish I was because he's a major fucking hottie."

^ Skip reading this dumpster fire of a book and read the literary masterpiece that is the My Immortal fanfic. To be completely honest, the mysterious author of that can (and SHOULD) take Runyx to court for copyright infringement.

Anyways, this was the worst book I've ever read in my life. The writing was horribly stilted, the characters were juvenile, and the plot was a flimsy attempt at complexity that came across as--you guessed it--horrible. 

The depiction of mental health, namely schizophrenia, in this book is absolutely abysmal and an insult to people who live with the condition. How this was picked up by a traditional publisher is beyond me. Where were the sensitivity readers? Where were the editors? 

And the ending? The ENDING? Good god. This truly was our Gothikana. 

If I never have to read the phrase "pebbled nipples" or the word "madness" ever again, it'll be too soon.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Mental illness, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Incest

direguard's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Chronic illness, Forced institutionalization, Murder, Blood, Sexual content, Suicide, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Death, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Cursing, Rape, Alcohol, Medical content, Vomit, Abandonment, Incest, and Sexual assault

lindsayhwrites's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

2.0

Clearly never saw an editor, was wrapped in pretty packaging but full of plot holes while also not having much of a plot. Very disappointing. Particularly the negative implications and claims about mental illness.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Vomit, Grief, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Dementia, Ableism, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Death, Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Suicide, Toxic friendship, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Incest

hobbit_at_heart's review

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.5

 

I really enjoyed this story! However, I will say I do not see any correlation between this story and comparing it to "dracula and beauty and the beast" aside from a girl falling for a "devil" in a castle.

The whole time I thought Vad Deverel was going to end up being a vampire or something and that never happened. So that was a touch disappointing. The smut could have been a touch better, but I won't complain.

I suck at reviews, but all-in-all, a good story. Definitely New Adult vibes. At first I was under the impression that this was set in an older timeline, however it was fairly modern with random things like the use of phones and internet was stuck in. Some of the writing was kind of cringy and I sped read through a LOT of fluffy bits that simply weren't all that necessary to have even been put into writing. Overall, good book. If Goodreads would do a 1/2 star system, this would be a solid 3.5 for me but I rounded up for the sake of having enjoyed the plot twist at the end bc I never would have seen it coming. Wild ride at the end!

HEA was corny as SHIT.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Drug use, Gore, Blood, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Dementia, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Body horror, Suicide, Mental illness, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Grief, Death, Death of parent, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Vomit, Medical content, and Stalking

Minor: Abortion, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, and Incest

vreyna20_2004's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

This is my first book from RuNyx and seeing some Youtubers talking about how much they did not like this book I had thought I would share their opinion despite hearing more positive reviews about this book. And as you can tell from the rating I did enjoy the book for the mystery and mystery alone. The romance in this book felt second to the story (sex) since Vad and Corvina spent most of their time bonking each other instead of getting to know each other and grow into a passionate romantic relationship. It was instalust is what I’m saying which I despise MORE than instalove. That doesn’t mean that I wasn’t blushing and throwing my phone across the room whenever Vad would say something. I have read stories where the girl knows NOTHING and goes in blind to a sexual relationship and almost acts aloof or innocent to whatever is going on (shudders) but Corvina was not like that. She was not annoying like I originally thought before going into the book blind.

Vad was sent to an orphanage type place where a older woman named Zelda told him to follow the purple eyes which is why he was following Corvina everywhere (and I mean everywhere) but after his grandfather from his (deadbeat) father’s side comes to take him as an heir after Vad’s father died that’s when we learn about how Vad’s grandfather played a part in the Slayers. Meaning he killed people and got a thrill from that but then when the Slayers died it is revealed that Vad’s grandfather had snitched on them which is why he didn’t die. It was also revealed that Vad’s grandfather took a girl who did witchcraft but she disappeared. Corvina questions how exactly Vad knows this and Vad tells her that his grandfather owns Verenmore so he knows everything. 

Then it’s the night of the Black Ball. Vad and Corvina escape to have some alone time but stop when they hear shouting which is when they find out that Jade and another girl went missing. Ajax–Troy’s older brother who went to school with Vad–follows Corvina to the small cottage in the woods when they discover the body of Jade Prescott but it’s not Corvina’s friend as this Jade has been dead for five years. Jade knocks out Corvina and tells her everything and why she killed Troy, Alissa, and now Corvina. Disgusted with Jade wanted Vad (romantically) a crowd forms before Vad pushes her off, killing her. They then leave and live together with the plans of having a family.

The reasons why I didn’t like the plot was because of Jade wanting to bonk her relative so they can become a strong couple. Barf. But it was also the fact that Corvina read her journals and wrote a book titled Gothikana. It’s a book ick for me reading/watching/listening to anything and the character writes a book and names it the title of the book/series it may not bother you but it always manages to piss me the fuck off. Final opinions are the book wasn’t that bad but it’s more of a guilty pleasure thing I went with the vibes and the vibes of this book were excellent. I enjoyed reading it (sometimes I stopped listening to the audiobook so I can finish faster) I did find it weird going to Vad’s pov since it follows only Corvina’s. Also this book is in third person but don’t be afraid to try it I personally am indifferent to what pov people use (except second) so it didn’t bother me at all.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Blood, Mental illness, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Suicide and Dementia

Minor: Incest