Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

Marrow by Trisha Wolfe, Brynne Weaver

10 reviews

magicofservice's review

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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

5.0

This book is for all the people who ship hannigram. 
It's dark, it's thrilling, it's hot. I love this book so much I could actually reread it and still love it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Murder, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Cursing, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Gun violence, Child abuse, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Medical content, Sexual content, and Torture

mizdimplesx's review

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

3.75

This book is not for the faint hearted. It is NOT like butcher & blackbird with the exception that it is a story about two rival serial unalivers who happen to fall for each other. This book takes every gorey & graphic detail to the extreme. It is violent, gorey and detailed. The authors don't shy away from how depraved the characters are. The trigger warnings are real and you should definitely abide by them. 

That being said, I think going into this book with the correct expectations is going to make or break your experience. If you are looking for some psychotic serial unalivers that are academic enemies & end up equally psychotic lovers, and enjoy the nitty gritty details of how they unalived their vics & got away with it, this is for you. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death of parent, Gore, Stalking, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Murder, Medical trauma, Sexual content, Death, Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, Gun violence, Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, Cursing, Animal death, Torture, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

sarahberryshortcake's review

dark medium-paced

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

5.0

This book was incredible! Who knew murder could be so sexy. I wish I could read it again for the first time. I read Butcher and Blackbird first and thought that was a little spicy and scandalous with the murder thrown in. This was more so! Highly recommend if you can handle dark romance. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Sexual content, Gun violence, Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Kidnapping, Stalking, Body horror, Death of parent, Gore, Physical abuse, Murder, Torture, and Violence

poupimali's review

dark lighthearted fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

I loved it.
As somple as that.
I love the chemistry between the grumpy sociopath serial killer Jack and the skinned alive serial killer Kyrie.
How their paths cross. How the desire and the smell of death floats around all along the story.

The danish love declarations from Jack literally killed me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Stalking, Torture, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Gore, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Blood, Death, Sexual content, Medical content, and Murder

Minor: Domestic abuse

taroroot's review

dark mysterious tense fast-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

it was okay

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Body horror, Gun violence, Blood, Murder, Torture, Violence, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Stalking, Confinement, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Misogyny

bwegz's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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? N/A

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Stalking, Torture, Drug use, Gore, Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, and Violence

kjenae's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring tense fast-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

4.25

THE FMC AND MMC ARE BOTH SERIAL KILLERS??? SIGN ME UP! 
this book gave me all the feels, tragic back story, “who did this to you?”, “touch her and you’ll *literally* die”….it gave a bit of rivals-to-lovers because they were competing on both:
1. their place of work
2. that there could only be one serial killer in their area. 

I love knowing that only those two characters could find love within each other…like there’s literally no one else who could understand them and accept all them except for each other.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Blood, Death of parent, Kidnapping, and Animal death

Moderate: Gun violence and Stalking

there’s brief details of dismemberment and other things that I can’t remember, but the authors provide trigger warnings in very beginning

sydreadslots's review

4.0

I used to be a die hard criminal minds fan and loved fbi agents hunting down serial killers so why did this book have me rooting for the killers!? It was just that good.

The trigger warnings and dark content were no joke but I didn’t feel like it was gore and graphic for shock and awe which I appreciate. 

The chemistry between Jack and Kyrie was off the charts and both their put on personas and their authentic selves were so engaging that reading it felt like a sprint. The epilogue was the perfect ending to their story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Murder, Gun violence, Animal death, and Gore

fairytalefootnotes's review

dark emotional funny mysterious medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Gun violence, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Murder, Animal death, Body horror, Blood, and Stalking

zayyssa's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

NOT FOR THE FAINT-HEARTED. HEED THE TRIGGER WARNINGS FROM THE AUTHORS.


I honest-to-God do not know how to rate this one. This book is on a whole new caliber for my reading genre.


"The unholy way in which I’m about to take her would make angels repent."

I feel like that should've been TW enough.

It's chilling. It does not aim to make you understand cold-blooded killers but it does give you lens to their activities. It's goosebumps-inducing. I was actually very afraid that the authors would try to make me sympathize with killers but no. This story truly is about villains, REAL COLD-BLOODED VILLAINS. Psychopats, if you will. Also, the way they think and their activities are disgusting, terrifying, and totally abhorrent.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Deadnaming, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Animal death, Confinement, Cursing, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Medical content, Stalking, Violence, and Torture