Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

How to Bite Your Neighbor & Win a Wager by D.N. Bryn

61 reviews

sophiesmallhands's review against another edition

emotional funny sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Ableism, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual content, Death of parent, and Alcohol

20sidedbi's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Terminal illness, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Police brutality, and Abandonment

Minor: Torture

bree_h_reads's review against another edition

DNF 26%

I will say if I was more a fan of what feels like the setup for a dark romance, I could probably enjoy this book. Unfortunately I do not and the basis for the relationship starting marred the aspects of the book I enjoyed.

This book was genuinely funny, there were plenty of places in the first 26% that made me laugh. I also really liked the character dynamics I saw in this section of the book. Everyone played off each other well and it established character really well. I also liked the way that the book tried to handle some of its themes and tackle modern issues. I also liked the world building and found it really interesting.

However each of these moments I enjoyed the book was coloured by the romance’s setup. The idea is that Vincent (Vamp Boy) is a starving vampire that can’t afford to buy blood. So Vamp Boy breaks into people’s houses to drink their blood w/o knowledge or consent. He ends up breaking into Wes’s (Not Vamp) house several times bc Wes is hot and has really yummy blood and is sometimes thinking about hooking up with him. Meanwhile Not Vamp is getting close to Vamp Boy so he can sell him to an evil pharmaceutical company that he knows will be experiment on and maybe kill Vamp Boy so Not Vamp can get a job there. He wants the job so he can destroy the company for killing his mom.

Despite both of them having questionable morals the book feels like it keeps screaming to justify it and refuses to admit the two aren’t good people. On top of that just being a very gross foundation for a relationship the book just didn’t gel with me.

I also found the writing EXTREMELY repetitive but that’s a forgettable complaint compared to the romance setup.

If dark romance is your thing, this will probably appeal to you. It’s just not for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Blood, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Classism

Minor: Racism and Grief

melodyseestrees's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Self harm, Sexual content, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicidal thoughts

vrrrmm's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful lighthearted mysterious slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent

sir_melons's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Abandonment, and Alcohol

emilia777's review against another edition

it was just a little too ya for me, might finish it later 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Kidnapping, and Death of parent

Moderate: Self harm

cleot's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Torture, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, and Stalking

Minor: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Death of parent

alex_baker's review against another edition

emotional funny mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.0

The two characters are so dumb in the best of ways. Their relationship made me giggle like a lovestruck girlie.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Biphobia, Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

anaisqsn's review against another edition

emotional funny

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

• two queer young men madly in love with each other and achingly bad at communicating
• like really, really bad
• one is a vampire
• mutual pining slowburn
• some (definitely platonic) bite kink
• great narrator making it ten times better

exactly what i needed for long car drives this week. probably will listen to the second book, especially if it's also narrated by Simon Dornet

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Grief and Death of parent

Minor: Bullying and Self harm