Reviews with content warning for Self harm - Dead Man Walking

Priest, dear god, priest. Since I finished this book I have not stopped thinking about him and I can’t imagine I’ll stop thinking about him any time soon.

The characters are so strategically described and created it falls in line with the concept of Bea’s Psychology studies perfectly making the book seem so much more ironic, tense and funny at the same time.

Many of the smut books I’ve read in the past have been very well written in terms of descriptions but lack story line therefore making them boring and repetitive towards the end.

Deadman walking has the perfect balance of eroticism and story line. I found myself reading this book for 7 hours at a time as I was so eager to know what happens next rather than reading on to find the next interesting sexual part. The story line never died!!

The book is very aggressive when it comes to the sexual parts and some people may not be as into that as others as there is knife play and mentions of blood… a lot of it. So all I can say is be prepared when going into this book.

I made the mistake of not researching ‘The Fallen Men’ series until half way through the book.
Although Deadman walking is a stand alone in the series I would 100% recommend reading book 1-5 first as DWM is the 6th book in the series. The main character focus of the 7 books aren't the same people however the people do continue to appear throughout each book and it simply helps you to have a wider understanding of the family as it is a large family.

That could possibly be my only complaint - the sheer amount of characters involved in the book made it difficult to keep up with who was who and who was related to who but I think that’s my own mistake for not researching the series.

I’m so intrigued by this family I will definitely be buying book 1,2,3,4,5 and 7 and I will definitely reread this when I get to it in the series.

Well done Giana Darling, you’ve blown me away.

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sleeping_unicorn's review

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dark emotional tense slow-paced

3.5

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litandlayne's review against another edition

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adventurous dark mysterious 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? No

3.75

You will never be able to convince me otherwise that both of the main characters, Priest and Bea, weren't Pick Me characters. Bea is all "I'm not like other good girls because there's darkness in me." Priest is all "I'm not like other psychopaths because I'm a monster."

Okay... I get IT.

After page 60 I started bookmarking every page that had something cringy on it. My total was 29.

29 times something just absolutely cringy was said, and that's after page 60. And the spicy scenes? Very aggressive. It was so aggressive I had to take a break reading it.

But there was something about this writing that I ate up. So far, this is my favorite out of the series. I don't know if I can recommend this because, for a character-driven story, the characters were pretty flat. Their whole personality was being Pick Me characters, and yet, I ate this story up.

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cinnaron's review

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adventurous 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? Yes

3.5

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r1vana's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense slow-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

4.0

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nessi_h's review

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adventurous challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

3.5

It was an okay book.. it had elements that I liked, and parts that i didnt like as much.. but dont get me wrong, the rating is more of how I felt for the book, I think that as an overall book Its probably more then a 3.5, but for me, it just a little too boring compared to other stories I've read in the past!

The most interesting part for me was the whole serial killer thing, and is a big part of why I actually finished the book, it was more of a crime book then romance, even tho the spice is nice and haawwwt in this one! But like I said, I've just read some really good books recently that it just missed something for me.

I really do recommend reading it, because it is a really interesting story, and a book you can enjoy through a couple of days in nice segments!

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