Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

God of Fury by Rina Kent

32 reviews

cmykbibliophile's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional 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

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I don’t even know where to start. I feel like with every Rina Kent book I read I fall more in love with her as an author. Brandon and Nikolai’s story quickly became one of my favorites. In God of Ruin, it hinted at the possibility of a romance between the two it was very subtle. I really loved this story and how it ended. Nikolai is definitely more unhinged in this book vs previous ones. Mafia/organized crime, cat and mouse, enemies to lovers are the main tropes for this book. Definitely check your triggers before reading this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Outing, Injury/Injury detail

adcamp04's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Suicide attempt

lizziethebookdragon's review against another edition

3.25

dark funny medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Finally a book with consent! I really enjoyed this one. 
Some bits were a bit cringey and the naming his penis thing freaked me out a bit but I got through the book. 
I enjoyed the plot and the characters development. 
Definitely my favourite of the series. I don't like the previous books that much but this gave me hope and I will probably read the last book as well as its been building up for a while now and the author said it will be similar to this one so fingers crossed the consent is there. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Child abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Suicide attempt

laura_katie_j's review against another edition

1.5

dark slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Stalking, Sexual harassment

ammii's review against another edition

2.25

dark sad tense fast-paced

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Murder, Sexual harassment, Classism

bookdragong24's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Cursing, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, Murder

Moderate: Drug use, Gun violence, Medical content, Stalking, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Bullying, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting

cm02's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional funny hopeful 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence

Moderate: Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt

Minor: Death

dont_tell_mom69's review against another edition

2.0

adventurous dark emotional funny sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I think Kent did a lot of things well in this book, especially considering she normally writes MF romance. Niko and Bran were both really unique and compelling characters and I was rooting for them. I appreciated the trigger warnings, we knew that we were getting into from the jump. 

I do wish she would have handled Niko’s medication issues differently. While some people do experience negative side effects from psychiatric medications, it isn’t typically to the extreme described (and usually that just means a lower dosage is needed). Because of so many people’s hesitancy to use psychiatric medications it’s frustrating to see an author write a stereotype that is rare and prevents people from using life saving medication. Especially when she handled all of the other mental health conditions with such care through out the story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Murder

bycandlelight's review against another edition

2.0

dark funny slow-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

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I enjoyed the characters in this book (especially Nikolai) but the plot and execution were lacking. Nikolai was funny and absolutely unhinged, which worked as a perfect opposition to the closed-off, repressed Bran. Nothing about Nikolai's approach was healthy or acceptable, but that's given in a dark story like this. Although the mafia theme was rather ridiculous, especially when you compare the blurbs of the other books in the series (God of Fury is the only one that I've read) to the actual characters in the background. :D Let's take Killian, who's depicted as a dangerous monster wherever you look, and what he does in the background of this book is mostly cuddle and kiss his girlfriend. All the killing, torturing, and violence is mostly on the periphery (

except things like Grace's death which was another level of unhinged, and not in a good way

). Some emotions were very surface-level, especially on Bran's side (surprisingly). There were moments when I was wondering whether it was inspired by "For The Fans" in some way, especially

Bran's staring at a mirror, "not your baby", repressed trauma that makes you conceal your sexuality, the new Instragram photos every day, the "bimbo" character and so on

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Most of the "dark" characters seemed rather playing at mafia than actually being a part of it, and the book could have been half of its length if the author got rid of all the repetitions and unnecessary scenes, but being in Nikolai's head was so funny, and I liked how they opened up to one another in the end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Murder, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Mental illness, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Acephobia/Arophobia

nutstella's review against another edition

1.0

dark fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I hope I never go through something like this again. ❤️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Cursing, Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Murder