Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

Twisted Hate by Ana Huang

36 reviews

kyrstin_p1989's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful lighthearted 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

Enemies to lovers, forbidden romance,  and single bed tropes are featured in this extra steamy romance. The characters really grew on me over the course of the story and their romance was spicy and sweet at the same time. I stayed up way too late to finish this one! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Infidelity, Medical trauma, Bullying, Kidnapping, Vomit, Physical abuse, Classism, Abandonment, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Stalking, Sexual violence, Sexual content, and Medical content

atanzosh's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, and Emotional abuse

dlsmk's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.25

"Because the possibility of you is better than the reality of anyone else.”

There is something addictive in this shit because I am obsessed. By far my favourite in the series. I was giggling and squealing and just truly having THE BEST time (until the 80 - 91% mark, but we shall overlook that). On to the next. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Grief, Sexual content, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Death, Body shaming, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Pedophilia, Child abuse, Misogyny, and Sexual harassment

malu_moon's review against another edition

dark emotional funny 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Stalking, and Violence

thewildbookcase's review against another edition

emotional tense medium-paced

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

2.5

I'm not sure if I hate Josh or Jules more... The first half of the novel I was loving the plot, an easy 4 stars. I really like the best friends brother/ sister's best friend storyline. I thought the tension and enemies with benefits was great! However, starting at the third act breakup it felt too much like sexual assault and abuse for me to enjoy seeing them get back together. The scene wasn't attractively spicy, it was heartbreaking and hurtful. It made me hate Josh so extremely that to have Jules apologize to him and be willing to get back together felt wrong. Jules' manipulation and unwillingness to simply TALK to Josh just made me angry. I was very close to DNF'ing because it felt too much like lies and poor choices wrapped up in manipulation. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence

Moderate: Death of parent

kateast14's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-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

4.5

Josh Chen is freaking hot. The spicy scenes in this book are not for the faint of heart... HOT HOT HOT. The spice level and steam in this book are astronomical, however the plot of this book is my least favorite in the Twisted series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Physical abuse, Cursing, and Sexual violence

cdoubet's review against another edition

emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Gun violence, Sexual violence, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Death, Grief, Violence, Abandonment, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Mental illness

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Suicide, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, and Kidnapping

gildea's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence and Sexual content

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Rape, Violence, and Gaslighting

Minor: Stalking

innae's review against another edition

dark 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

4.0

I saw this book coming from the begging of twisted love..but still so good.  Jules and Josh are my fav pair this far.   Would love to hear more about sone of the side characters…like Dante perhaps??  (I would say Christian, but I know he’s in twisted lies :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Sexual violence

Minor: Abandonment

probably not a spoiler..but the hate sex is ..something.

savvyrosereads's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.0

Rating: 4/5 stars

Jules Ambrose and Josh Chen are sure of one thing—they hate each other. But when they begin an “enemies with benefits” arrangement, they just might realize that fundamental truth isn’t so true after all…

I loved SO MUCH about this book—Jules and Josh are both great MCs and their relationship was surprisingly sweet given that it started as hatred (or at least intense dislike). It was a true enemies-to-lovers romance, which is my absolute favorite trope, so I ate up the banter, tension, and explosiveness with a spoon. And that first date?!?! Let’s just say if someone planned that for me I’d be shopping for wedding dresses immediately.

All of that said, I dropped a star because there was a pair of choices (first an action from Jules and then Josh’s reaction to it) that I could not stand, and while I understand why they ultimately reconciled (that’s not a spoiler, this is a romance novel, come on), I only half forgave Josh myself.

Still, I’m having a BLAST reading this series, and I can’t wait for Stella and Christian’s story in Twisted Lies!

Recommended to anyone, but especially if you like: enemies to lovers; bromance moments; slow-ish burn tension

CW: Grief/death of parent; sexual violence; physical violence

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Sexual violence, Violence, and Sexual content

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail