Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Corrupt by Penelope Douglas

104 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

sydneyluxford's review against another edition

challenging dark tense

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

2.0

I’m really scared.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

reema_ismail's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Animal death and Child abuse

Minor: Rape, Car accident, Death of parent, and Murder

salusgh's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body shaming, Child abuse, Death, Incest, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

maddamekat's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated

2.5

It was problematic in parts (and I'm super tired of the FMC in dark romance books being just in there 20s but thats a general complaint but was almost enought for me to dnf after 12 pages. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Toxic relationship

Minor: Emotional abuse, Rape, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

nicoleworsham's review against another edition

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping and Murder

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Drug abuse, Sexual assault, and Alcohol

sabinehunter's review against another edition

dark 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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

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

anjae's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

1.0

I liked it. But there are so many things in this that bothered me that I physically couldn’t make myself rate it higher.

There is absolutely no real remorse for anything the guys did to Rika. Yes, they “felt sorry” whatever whatever, but they put her through hell and we’re just gonna think it’s fine? I guess my main problem is that the long-lasting trauma from sexual assault and the later effects of gaslighting weren’t addressed. Rika needs so much therapy (and needs to break up with Michael). 

The sex was fun though, and I do like the idea that Rika is as crazy as them. I’ll give it that. 

I think if any of the guys were held accountable (and there were any consequences for the horrific acts they inflicted on Rika), if Rika’s future PTSD and trauma relating to the events were discussed, or if Rika was very clearly stated to be just as crazy as them (and therefore every character in the book was clearly and explicitly stated to be morally grey), then this could have immediately jumped up to a 3, maybe even a 3.5. But because this book makes this seem like normal romantic behavior and doesn’t seem self aware in any way, I can’t rate it that high. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Animal death and Biphobia

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