Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

Haunting Adeline by H.D. Carlton

874 reviews

jfudjebeeii's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, Trafficking, Stalking, Car accident, Murder, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Kidnapping, and Car accident

shuglen's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

2.5

Very 🚩, lots of rape and a good amount of Stockholm syndrome. Realized that dark romance isnt my thing while reading the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Kidnapping, Stalking, and Sexual harassment

sari_kov's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, and Sexual harassment

bmw2024's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Trafficking, Kidnapping, and Murder

krmeehan's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Gore, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

ceh391's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

Loved this book! One of my top favorites! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Trafficking, Kidnapping, and Suicide attempt

mailenlovesreading's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

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

4.25

I surprisingly enjoyed this book and I am not sorry about it. 

What was most ironic though was that Zade’s life purpose was to eradicate human trafficking and the skin trade and killing pedophiles yet he stalked and forced himself on a woman. Like?? 

The whole “saving the women and children” part honestly just felt like something to give Zade a redeeming quality while he did a lot of morally fucked up shit. However that dark aspect of the book did touch on important topics to do with corruption in power and the skin trade. Along with this, it was good to have multiple plot points at the same time that weren’t just their relationship such as Gigi’s diaries and the mystery of her death.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Sexual content

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Rape, Kidnapping, Stalking, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death of parent

tilz20's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, Stalking, and Injury/Injury detail

werewolfapologist's review against another edition

dnf'd at 41%

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Stalking, Murder, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Child abuse, Pedophilia, Slavery, Trafficking, and Kidnapping

endlessallison's review against another edition

dark

• Loveable characters? No

0.25

Booktok really did me wrong on this recommendation. I love an enemies to lovers trope as much as the next person but this was just predatory twisted and disgusting. I honestly wish I never heard of this book and I am disgusted that people find this worth recommending. I don’t even know why I finished the thing, I think I was just amazed at how truly disgusting it was. Don’t read this, it’s a romanticized view of literal r*pe and SA. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Stalking, and Murder

This book is truly depraved. I cannot stress enough that if you have experienced any of the above content warnings then you shouldn’t even watch reviews of it. It not only contains horrible explicit content but it glorifies and romanticizes it. I wish I could say anything good about this book but I can’t. It’s horrible.