Reviews tagging 'Death'

Club 22 by Tate James

7 reviews

samster_reads's review

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Gun violence, Death, and Alcohol

Moderate: Gaslighting

Minor: Trafficking

ka_ke's review

dark emotional 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

4.0

This is the darkest book of the series yet. Chase is a straight up sociopathic psychopath, to have so little empathy for your fellow humans is disgusting, I’d be curious to understand Tate’s source material for his character. I love that the guys have become closer in this group with the sole purpose of protecting Hades and making her happy. I would have loved to hear the lecture Zed gave Seph. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Cursing, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Body horror, Sexual content, Alcohol, Medical content, Mental illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Trafficking, Violence, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Stalking, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Rape

laura_rheads_too_much's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Death, and Drug use

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Violence, Trafficking, and Torture

lea_talisa's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.75

Loved this as much as every other Hades book! After that ending I have nothing but hope left in me that things aren’t the way they seem to be. I am as excited as scared to read the final book of the Hades series!

„I'm scared that I'll lose my best friend. He's my safe place. He's the only person who has always had my back, no matter what. I can't lose that. I'm terrified that without him, I'll lose myself. Even in my darkest days, he held onto my sanity—my humanity—for me, safeguarding it until I'd done what needed doing, then put it back where it belonged.“

„I want you to see that no matter what happened in the past, I'm in this with you one hundred percent. I wasn't there when you needed me then, but I'm here now. I'm not going anywhere, and I'll do whatever it takes to fix what he broke inside you.“

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, and Violence

Moderate: Rape, Sexual violence, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, and Trafficking

Minor: Torture

psyched_np's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

The cliff hangers at the end of EVERY Tate book is killing me!!  

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Infidelity, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, Rape, Sexual violence, Alcohol, Child death, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Addiction, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Slavery, Stalking, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, and Gun violence

rlb23's review

dark emotional funny tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, Sexual violence, Torture, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Murder, and Death

jessicastaylor's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

 I...I just can’t form words right now.

This book was delicious, dark, and that cliffhanger oh my goodness.

Tate is a deviously beautiful mastermind and I am completely at her mercy.

Stay tuned for a full review once my words are working again!

Okay, words are working. Here we go:

[ First of all, yay! Cass isn't dead! Woohoo! As much as Tate likes to torture us with cliffhangers, I know in my soul that things will have a happy ending. I tried, and sometimes failed, to not think that Cass would be permanently dead, and yay! He's not! (hide spoiler)]

This books was once again, an amazing, heart wrenching piece of art from Tate. There were so many emotions and I really think Hades is my favorite female character of Tate's. I loved getting to see more of Hayden, rather than Hades in this one. Tate broke her walls down with this one, and getting to see behind Hayden's shield was very powerful. She's learning to trust again...for a second, at least.

The vulnerability and growth in this book for Hayden was just so good. It's almost like we're finally getting to see the scared little girl, that Hayden built Hades up to protect. The Hayden-Hades dynamic is so fun to read, and Tate really made them into 2 really separate characters.

Learning more about Lucas' background and his family was interesting. I'm really hoping to next spin off will focus on the Guild. I wanna know what those guys are up to!

Chase is disgusting as usual, and made me want to punch him in the face. Often. With a brick. Tate is really good at making this dude unlikeable, so kudos to her!

This cliffhanger is hands down the WORST one I've ever read from Tate. It's like she just sits there giggling about ways to make us curse her name. I was NOT expecting that ending to happen like that, and I am so upset that I have to wait until September to see it resolved now. THIS IS WHY I HAVE TRUST ISSUES! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual content, Gun violence, and Death