Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Dead Man Walking by Giana Darling

3 reviews

leeshy93's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Murder, Violence, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Torture

darcynewton's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

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. 

If you've made it to the end of this review, do send me a friend request as I love connecting with people who are just as mentally messed as me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Gun violence, Body horror, Grief, Sexual assault, Abandonment, Death of parent, Addiction, Death, Hate crime, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Murder, Medical content, Medical trauma, Stalking, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual violence, Self harm, Toxic relationship, and Violence

ymread's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, and Murder

Minor: Child abuse, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Stalking, Torture, Pregnancy, and Sexual assault