Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Haunting Adeline by H.D. Carlton

101 reviews

brooksie03051's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

THIS IS NOT FOR CHILDREN

This book is extremely graphic. If you are easily bothered by any of the triggers attached to this book, do not read.  You’ve been warned.

There are three different stories going on in this book and it’s left with a big cliffhanger. This is told by two different POV. The female character Adaline and the male character Zade. 

This starts with Adaline, an author who moves into her grandmothers house after her death as she left the house to her. She comes across some information regarding her great grandmother who was murdered when her grandmother was just a teenager and this was her great grandparents home.

The POV with Zade is one part his job as a hacker genius who runs a huge underground company that identifies scumbags that traffic women and children. He finds them and tries to save as many as he can and “takes care of” the disgusting people who trap them.

Then both POV of Adaline and Zade regarding his obsession with her and how she deals with it.  This “relationship” is graphic and disturbing for anyone who does not enjoy dark romance. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Kidnapping, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

cxsmiccxtie's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Car accident, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

eaveryll's review against another edition

challenging dark 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

2.0

This book was extremely difficult to get through. Take the trigger warnings seriously. The first half is extremely graphic and the second half left me feeling uncomfortable after having read part 1. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Confinement, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

The reunion does not come for a long time and you read a lot of on page and referenced rape/assault. There is PTSD and graphic sexual scenes after the first half kidnapping.

kyrstin_p1989's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

Honestly, if it weren’t for such an intriguing plot, this book would’ve likely been a DNF or at the very least a 2 star or less. The writing is so bad. The punctuation is messy. The dialogue is stilted. I had to stop and reread countless times because the way the sentence was structured made it difficult to comprehend or just sounded so odd it was off-putting. This is significantly spicy but it was really difficult to overcome the bad writing to get to the heart of the story. Seeing as this is a duology and it ends on a cliffhanger, I feel compelled to read the second book, but I am not looking forward to submitting myself to that kind of torture for 500+ more pages. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Stalking, Murder, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

romanceaddict77's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes

4.0

So dark and terrible, but the first Dark book I ever read so the 4 is for it being impactful. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Gore, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

mimo_'s review against another edition

dark tense

• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

ok so like what the fuck is this (again)
i dont care about either one of them and the "cliffhanger" at the end means nothing to me 
i read this purely for science to see what the booktok girlies see in him and quite frankly i dont see much please seek help if this is ur man
despite all of the questionable things in this entire book its somehow not the worst thing ive read (iykyk) but it still. wasnt very good. 

there is so much non-con in here like zade get it together this man has so many kinks that are doing a bit too much. after all this forcing himself on adeline because physically she wants it but mentally shes like get the fuck away from me hes somehow supposed to be redeemed bc hes a vigilante killing human traffickers

also why was there a random murder mystery in here it wasnt even that thrilling like she did the same thing jfkdndnksv adeline is stupid

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Stalking, Car accident, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

sabrinadawn08's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, and Sexual harassment

emily_lane's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Car accident

amsterdamrose's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Trafficking

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Pedophilia, and Physical abuse

nicollette_13's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Car accident, Murder, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail