Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Inextricably Tied by Aveda Vice

8 reviews

twistykris's review

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, and Kidnapping

Minor: Vomit, Suicide, and Death of parent

discarded_dust_jacket's review

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.5

I went into this figuring it’d be a steamy little monster romance, maybe with some dark themes and an interesting, mysterious plot, but I wasn’t expecting to CRY SO MUCH. (Aveda, darling, you will be hearing from my lawyers; I’m suing for emotional damages.)

I love these precious, broken characters. They are each endearing in their own ways, (Agony especially). I’m gonna be honest, the crime-solving part of the plot kind of took a back seat in my mind; all I cared about was the romance and all of its angsty sexual tension, lol.

Pick this one up if you’re into the idea of a throuple involving a shape-shifting mass of shadows that can, ahem, accommodate a variety of needs. 😉

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, and Grief

Moderate: Child death and Kidnapping

Minor: Torture, Suicide, and Vomit

shector1's review

adventurous dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Murder and Child death

Minor: Vomit, Kidnapping, and Death

krisalexcole's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Sexual content

Moderate: Child death, Fire/Fire injury, and Police brutality

Minor: Kidnapping, Suicide, Violence, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Death of parent, and Murder

unsuccessfulbookclub's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Kidnapping, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Gore, Gun violence, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Trafficking, Body horror, Alcoholism, Cursing, Grief, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Torture, Violence, and Vomit

potalian's review against another edition

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Blood, Confinement, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, and Torture

Minor: Death of parent, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Religious bigotry, and Suicide

romanceschmomance's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful 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

Hands down my favorite written by Aveda and my goodness, grab the tissues. I was not expecting the emotional overload that would have me in tears. I just want to hug them all, I cry. Ugh, my heart, someone come take care of it.

All I have to say is that Skin did not prepare me for what was going to come, emotionally, in Inextricably Tied. I couldn't stop reading, it was a full immersion into their story AND I may have had to read certain parts, just to make sure I had the correct visual ;-)

There are a lot of elements happening in this story, including the undeniable feelings between Harbinger and Flint, but also trying to solve a bit of a mystery. While their work relationship is strong and they no doubt have each other's back, there are still some unknowns when it comes to being together as a couple. And my goodness once we get to each individual POV during this process, it was so much more emotional than I thought it would be especially with Flint.

Agony was the most unexpected character, I remained open-minded because I wanted to see where their character development would take us. Agony was just pure perfection, all lovely things about them. I was just trying to visualize what they looked like!

I loved seeing them work through everything, there was so much growth that had me over the moon. And of course, top-tier steam, Aveda writes that perfectly!

It's been so great seeing so much growth with Aveda's writing and I'm so excited for the next release in Wed in the Wild.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Death and Murder

Minor: Suicide, Self harm, Death of parent, and Child death

Content Info from author's site

Violence, gore, torture, blood, religious trauma, coercion and lack of consent (non-sexual), grief, anxiety, post-traumatic stress, corrupt organizations (law enforcement, religion) touch aversion Death and murder (especially of teenage girls) Non-graphic descriptions of suicide, self-harm, parent death, child death, vomit, bugs

billie_yankie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Aveda Vice can do no wrong. Everything they write is just the perfect type of kinky urban fantasy.

Skin was a great introduction to the characters, but Inextricably Tied brought me to my knees. Flint - the big protector, always keeping his emotions as buried as possible, the man who always has to have everything under control - gets stuck with not one but two temperamental brats. Harbinger is fighting her own battles and carrying so many traumatic memories - both hers and others'- is forced to learn to speak out. And Agony, that poor, lovable bastard, has to learn everything about himself and the world around him when all he knows so far of it is that it's full of terrible people.

And the three make such a fun triad to follow! Their banter is brilliant, Agony is the cheekiest and it drives Flint mad, but oh is it worth it to work each other up. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Torture, Child death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Suicide and Child abuse