Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Born, Darkly by Trisha Wolfe

15 reviews

pmann2793's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Suicide, and Murder

neasmusings's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence

rapturelittlesis's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Torture, Gore, Sexual content, Murder, and Kidnapping

sabinehunter's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Sexual content, Child death, Death, Blood, Self harm, Car accident, Cursing, Murder, Vomit, Kidnapping, Torture, Violence, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

abbyreadsbigbooks123's review against another edition

1.0

No just no

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Kidnapping, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Child death, Death of parent, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Bullying, Car accident, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual violence, Stalking, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, and Murder

jazzcone's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Blood, Body horror, Car accident, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Gun violence, Torture, Vomit, Mental illness, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Kidnapping, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Stalking, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Grief, Violence, Self harm, and Sexual assault

annagerman's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Such a fun thrilling sexy ride!
Dexter meets Hanibal meets Joker and Harley Quinn.
Under a different name (and different characters names LOL London Noble is a sexy-librarian-type stripper name if I've ever heard one) this could be your run-of-the-mill erotic thriller, and a decent one at that.

The writing was surprisingly good, a bit too wordsy at times.
The psychobabble was a bit much, with many inaccuratly used terms. And some of the reveals were a little too convinient. But I willing to suspend my disbelief, bravery this was just too damn fun. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gore, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Gaslighting, Violence, Murder, Blood, Confinement, Death, and Child abuse

theartistreader's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

One sitting. That's how quick I read this book. I am obsessed! This book is so dark and, even though I'm going to sound a bit psychotic myself here, the characters are surprisingly relatable, which is something that isn't always present withing romance books. I've got a feeling this book is going to leave me with a massive book hangover. But now I need more serial killer recs! Book 2, here I come.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Medical content, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual violence, Stalking, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Violence, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Car accident, and Death of parent

gnlee26's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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

4.25

Read 1.13.23-1.14.23     Reviewed 2.21.23
I didn’t get super attached to these characters or story. While they were interesting and the story was super intriguing (basically just a Harley Quinn/Joker reimagined) it fell flat and the ending pissed me off. I do want to finish the story but I’ll probably just end up making an HEA in my head. Grayson is definitely one of the darker MMCs I’ve read and I loved that aspect but I didn’t really feel the chemistry and the “softer” side of Grayson (even though its not much softer) wasn’t very believable. The FMC (honestly can’t remember her name rn) didn’t start out to me at all. Her

dark arc if you will

wasn’t believable either.

I don’t get the whole “you blocked it out” “you made yourself think you’re Normal/the urges are still there you just push them away” like um…. If she doesn’t have the urges/they dont affect her at all doesn’t that mean she is normal? And if she is actually a psychopath then why doesn’t she embrace it why is she running and hiding and trying to be normal instead of ya know being a freaking psychopath?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Pedophilia, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Blood, Body horror, Death, Kidnapping, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Car accident, Gore, Murder, Confinement, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Stalking, Torture, and Toxic relationship

xoxandiexo's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Torture, Body horror, Child abuse, Mental illness, Self harm, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis