Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Bound by Honor by Cora Reilly

8 reviews

rosereadsalot's review

4.0

This book was so fast paced and I flew through it! I can’t wait to see the other sisters get their own stories and I’m about to binge the rest of the series.

However, this book has the cheating trope!! It would have been 5⭐️ otherwise… but I hated the cheating and I hated how they talked about the girl after it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Murder, Vomit, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Suicide, Blood, Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Sexism, Torture, Sexual violence, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Body horror, Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, and War

hannibanani29's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Sexual content, Cursing, Infidelity, Gun violence, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Alcohol, Child abuse, Vomit, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Torture, and Violence

Minor: Suicide attempt, Medical content, Domestic abuse, Confinement, Suicide, Pregnancy, Grief, and Toxic relationship

samflowerv6's review against another edition

The lines of consent were so blurred and I just can’t get over how much I didn’t like Luca. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Emotional abuse, Sexual harassment, Classism, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, and Sexism

findmeinunderland's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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

3.0

Sex, violence, moral ambiguity
I loved it. 
I figured they would’ve come to a stage of obvious emotional affection a lot sooner than they did, but I’m a sucker for a slow burn. I was waiting for more playfulness like in the scene at the gym but mafias are usually more dark so it doesn’t bug me as much as it usually would, but that scene came so naturally it was hard not to want more of that dynamic, can’t wait to see if the other books provide that

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Gore, Murder, Rape, Suicide, and Toxic relationship

rachaelboyd's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Sexual content, and Infidelity

Moderate: Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Minor: Misogyny and Suicide

lh_reads's review against another edition

dark emotional tense 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gun violence, Murder, Sexual content, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Vomit and Death of parent

Minor: Self harm and Domestic abuse

lanorton's review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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

2.0

4/5 spice lots of scenes that are well written. This book would have been a 4.5/5 stars if I had stopped before the last few chapters. I really liked their growth together and how they pushed each other. 

Then he sees no problem with not informing her weeks ago that her little sister was sold into a marriage. Also the big ending is I actually love you I don’t just want to Fuck you.

So yup ends on a fairly big Cliff hanger and not a great ending overall. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Vomit

danielle70's review against another edition

lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

This was a really fun book. It's not super depressing or emotional, just a good time. The couple worked really well together. If you like a very docile heroine and commanding hero, here's your book. I like more outspoken heroines with more sway over their man, but this was good too. The pacing was solid, I read this super fast and never got bored. The characters were solid too. I think if you like the whole innocent heroine thing and a morally gray hero whose only morally gray component is that you're told he's a big player in the mafia and he kills bad guys occasionally (but you never reeally see anything bad or outrageous), then you will absolutely love this. I promise I did enjoy this lol. I don't know how to get my point across. Basically, I had a lot of fun reading this. It's a super quick read. I loved the super close sister dynamic.

I loooooved the first 3/4 of this. I enjoyed all of it, but I have a very different personality from the heroine so maybe that's it, but she needed a bit more of a backbone in my opinion. I can suspend my disbelief but come on, no one bites their tongue that often. I also feel like the whole innocent/naive thing was a lil heavy-handed. It makes me uncomfortable after a minute when the heroine, who lives in modern-day Chicago doesn't know much at all about anything, especially someone who grew up in a mafia family. Sure, ok. I did really like her sister Gianna, so I'm pumped to her read her book. 

Tropes:

• mafia romance
• opposites attract
• shy/innocent heroine & grumpy/cynical hero
• super possessive hero
• the whole 'I hate that I love you' thing
• 'touch her and you die'
• hurt/comfort (not a lot, but it's there)
• 'I hate everyone but you'

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Sexism, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, and Sexual content

Spoilery content warnings: *death of a parent *heroine gets roofied and the creep who did it planned on assaulting her (but he didn't) *infidelity (they were newly married and barely knew each other so like they weren't emotionally involved yet, ya know?)