Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

Corrupt by Penelope Douglas

51 reviews

midnightrose_reads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

Corrupt is the first book in the Devil’s Night series. It’s about a young woman named Erika Fane and a young man named Michael Crist. Erika and Michael have felt a connection to each other that they’ve both tried to ignore their whole lives. It finally comes to a head on Devil’s Night, and changes all their lives forever. This was a strong start to an exciting and well loved series. Michael and Erika have a crazy amount of chemistry together. Also reading about his friendship with his fellow friends The Horsemen (Kai, Damon, and Will) was really enjoyable as well. The found family aspect of their friendship was really beautiful. Suspenseful, sexy and shocking this is definitely not a book for the faint of heart!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Minor: Animal death, Incest, Sexual assault, and Death of parent

coligmueller's review against another edition

1.0

I enjoyed maybe 50 pages of this book, the rest is ridiculous.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

kaltenmark24's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Toxic relationship, and Violence

sydneys_bookshelf's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.75

order of bfs
1. will grayson
2. kai
3. michael
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1,00,000. damon

literally i don’t know how i feel about this book. i wanna finish the series but i have no clue how damon has redemption, even with his past trauma. i feel like alex and kai will be together???

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction

Minor: Animal death

mk_chil's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

Oooh I loved this book I was wishing I was the main character the whole time

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

imireviewsbooks's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Bullying, Sexual content, Violence, Kidnapping, and Stalking

Moderate: Alcoholism, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Rape, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Grief, and Car accident

legendjunes's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

0.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Biphobia, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Incest, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

lea_talisa's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

The book itself regarding the writing of the story and characters as well as those things itself was good. It just wasn’t for me and though I often enjoy dark romance I just couldn’t get comfortable how they sexualised her fear. I get that spark that comes with a little fear play but I feel like sometimes the female mc was just straight up frightened and I couldn’t get behind how someone would find joy in that or how she could be turned on herself. Also a big point for me is the miscommunication I mean if they would’ve just talked a lot of things would’ve turned out drastically different. In the end it definitely is a good book I simply couldn’t identify with the morals of the characters which made me not being able to enjoy the book and also not read any further books in the series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Violence, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Pedophilia, Rape, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, and Murder

Minor: Gun violence, Forced institutionalization, Car accident, and Death of parent

lunsbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Violence, Kidnapping, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Addiction and Death of parent

lilythereader's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Sexual content

Moderate: Addiction and Drug abuse

Minor: Animal death