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leeshy93's review
- 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
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
cha_len_novels's review
- 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
3.75
Graphic: Death, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Kidnapping
cantazo's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
5.0
I do really, really, really like this book.
Characters are charming in their own twisted way, the found family, the trauma, and the healing (his and hers as well) are good.
The thing is: we have a motorcycle Psychopath and a killer, and his obsession with a sunshine girl. But this little sunshine has a dark side…She can be stereotypical as sweet, fluffy pink and a church girl, but inside, she embraces her darkness and finds the beauty in the darkness of others, but specially of our enforcer (plus, she studies criminal psychology and has a podcast where she talks about serial killers). So technically, they are the obsession of each other.
Ok, great, but could happen when both of them cross the line of observing from the distance to take action? This book tells us what happen with some…. spice in it.
Ok, fine, maybe that doesn’t sound interesting to you, but let me add another point to the plot: What do you think could happen if there is not one, but two psychopaths are behind her? This second psychopath develops into a serial killer going after our little sunshine.
Now, this was such a ride for me… I’m not used to like readings in which harm is a key for the erotic scenes to develop (I don’t conceive personally into my relationships these practices so it’s foreign this type of topics to me). But in this one, I didn’t feel uncomfortable, I still don’t like it but I was so captivated for the subplot of finding the other psychopath that could harm Bea (our protagonist and little sunshine) that I devour this book in two days within my free time.
So, solid 5 stars to this one, good characters, the found family is always a welcoming surprised to me, the development of the plot, the chemistry, the dual POV, all of that was good.
Graphic: Mental illness, Murder, Blood, Violence, Physical abuse, Cursing, Gun violence, Stalking, Deadnaming, Death, and Kidnapping
Minor: Trafficking and Car accident
kobireads's review against another edition
- 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
3.75
Graphic: Gore, Death, Blood, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Violence, Murder, Torture, Self harm, and Medical trauma
darcynewton's review
- 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
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.
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
sleeping_unicorn's review
3.5
Graphic: Violence, Sexual content, and Torture
Moderate: Death, Murder, Stalking, Drug use, Kidnapping, and Self harm
chloedreads's review against another edition
- Strong character development? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Religious bigotry, Death, Kidnapping, and Murder
abzauthor's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
Graphic: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Violence, and Gun violence
namaya's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
0.75
Graphic: Mental illness, Murder, Sexual content, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Physical abuse
oliviamichelle_'s review
4.0
Graphic: Murder, Stalking, and Torture
Moderate: Sexual content