Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

Hunting Adeline by H.D. Carlton

370 reviews

dontbendmybooks's review against another edition

dark emotional slow-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

4.5

Beginning felt fast paced, but last half fell into a slower pace. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

crypticspren's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Firstly, holy gods READ the trigger warnings. If you make it to the first grape scene and can’t deal, skip to chapter 21. I promise you won’t miss much, if anything.

The writing and character development were extremely well done, and the book felt well paced and the level of detail was tangible. From a writing and quality point of view, this book is excellent. Although I can’t say I enjoyed it. The first half was extremely graphic and it was unsettling at best. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Blood, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, Stalking, Car accident, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Alcohol

lreadss's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Injury/Injury detail

vass11's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense 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

1.5

Just don’t - not worth it 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

Just don’t - not worth it

deannajamie37's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

Once again, I wanted to have high hopes for Zade to get better and he didn’t. Yes, we learned more about him and he does have a sweet side, but the romance was still too aggressive for me for a man who is also supposed to be this vigilante hero. The thriller/suspense aspects of the book were a good read, but the relationship fell short for me because of the Zade contradiction. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, and Trafficking

Moderate: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Medical trauma, and Fire/Fire injury

jholl99's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, and Murder

Moderate: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Medical trauma, and Stalking

rachieanniereads's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

low 3 star. this one lost me... the first one was so much better. 

i would classify this one more as suspense than romance. that said, none of the motivations of the characters made sense except maybe zade. i felt like plot elements and character involvements were added for shock value, but wasn't developed in a way to also make sense.

this was also a long ass book and it felt long. this was repetitive, and i don't think we needed over 250 pages of torture and graphic rape scenes to understand the trauma adeline was experiencing. 

also sibel was so annoying pls. h.d. carlton is writing a book with sibel as the main character and i will NOT be reading that, thank you :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Stalking, Car accident, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

bre_mad's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.5

I truly did enjoy this book. It is dark but that is not a secret. This book did a lot of eye opening for me and I feel it does capture trauma response in Addie well for how it would go for someone else.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Trafficking, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

crimsonwhispers01's review against another edition

dark fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, and Sexual harassment

laurencita's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

This book doesn’t shy away from exposing the horrible trauma of the skin trade- take the reader discretion note seriously!!! 

It was an amazing and emotionally complicated book— definitely ramped up from book 1 but tastefully. Also I’m in love with Zade- he’s so well written!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Cannibalism, Stalking, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual harassment