Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Crave by Tracy Wolff

65 reviews

zanecarey's review

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief and Violence

Minor: Grief

marycage'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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Violence, Blood, and Death of parent

lamianoctalis's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Ich muss sagen, am Anfang hatte ich echt Probleme ins Buch reinzukommen. Ich weiß nicht, ob es an dem Buch oder mir lag, ich fand Grace echt zickig/nervig, aber nach einem erzwungenen Beiseitelegen und wieder aufnehmen, hat sich meine Wahrnehmung sehr verändert. Ich habe das Buch in Rekordtempo zuende gelesen und genossen. Immer wieder war ich von den Entwicklungen überrascht oder hab an meiner Einschätzung gezweifelt. Ein gelungener erster Band der Reihe. (Ich hab mir direkt Band 2&3 besorgt)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Blood, Grief, and Violence

Moderate: Medical content, Murder, Death, Kidnapping, Panic attacks/disorders, and Car accident

Minor: Racism, Sexual content, Torture, War, Hate crime, and Genocide

steger97's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.75

The dialogue can often be juvenile and cliche. Also phrases both in dialogue and in internal thoughts can be a little repetitive at times. But it was a fun story. It kept me turning the pages. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Violence, Death of parent, and Death

Minor: Car accident

kirahaycock21's review against another edition

adventurous 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? No

4.75

The slow burn romance of this book was AMAZING! It you’re looking for smut, you won’t find it here though. But the relationship between the two characters was so sweet. Ends on a MAJOR cliffhanger. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Car accident and Death of parent

Minor: Death, Kidnapping, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic friendship, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual content, Blood, Cursing, and Violence

indyyxoxo's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Blood, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Confinement, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: War and Vomit

caitlyn_kittle_kinnick's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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: Grief, Death of parent, Blood, Torture, Medical trauma, Medical content, Violence, and Gun violence

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Car accident, Kidnapping, Cursing, Genocide, Gun violence, and Drug use

abby_can_read's review against another edition

mysterious

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

3.0

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This book was alright. There were  parts that I enjoyed and there were parts that I didn't like. It made me think of Twilight and I loved that book in high school. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, and Death of parent

Moderate: Grief and Murder

thelittlestmermaid's review against another edition

mysterious tense

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, and Death of parent

Moderate: War

toastyghosty13's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

I definitely enjoyed this book more towards the end. I found myself getting bored at some parts until about 75% of the way through, where it took off and didn’t stop for me. I would have rated it a 4/5 if I hadn’t been bored in some parts, since the book is very long and could be quite slow at times, and if we had had the

aspect of vampires, witches, dragons, and werewolves revealed to us sooner, since something was clearly going on.

The ending is a good cliff hanger that makes me excited to get into the next book of the series. 

I feel like this book was probably started as a twilight fanfic, but is honestly better. It follows a valley girl type main character named grace who has to move and transfer schools after the untimely death of her parents. She is not at all like Bella swan in the sense of the "I’m not like other girls" trope; in fact, the only things I think she actually has in common with Bella are moving from somewhere hot to somewhere cold, and

having 2 guys fight over her and be very over protective, one who is super dark, mysterious, and intense, while the other is goofy and more normal (very Edward vs Jacob)

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I do think that

Jaxon is a ridiculous name and an even more ridiculous character, although I definitely am on team Jaxon rather than Flint. Since the character is obviously not real, I don’t really care about the crazy protectiveness he has over grace and can definitely see the draw to it. I also think grace’s internal commentary on him is funny and makes sense for a high schooler navigating her first love. I’ve seen spoilers about the next book, so I’m curious to see where this goes.

I wish I would have seen a bit more of Macy. I really like her as a character and I think it is set up well to have her recurring as a best friend of grace’s. She’s a sweetheart and a great friend. 

Overall, this is a book I did enjoy a lot. It’s one of those books that is not really the best of writing but the plot and drama makes it a lot of fun to read. It’s like watching a soap opera, where you know it’s not exactly high quality but it does not detract from the entertainment value in the slightest. If you are looking for something to have ups and downs of drama, romance, betrayal, and magic, while not taking itself too seriously, this is a fantastic option and I highly recommend!!! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Cursing, Blood, Violence, and Kidnapping