Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

God of Malice by Rina Kent

227 reviews

reading_adventures's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark emotional funny tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Blood, Stalking, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt

kell_yeah_reads's review against another edition

3.5

dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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per my spreadsheet:

my feelings are feelings. they are mixed. didn't like it, didn't hate.

so this means I'll prolly continue to read the series lol

spice 🌶  - a 5 🌶  spicy (romance.io scale)
length - just right
reading speed - read in 2 days 
did it make me cry? - no? dont think so

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Blood

emmadb766's review against another edition

1.5

dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Way too over hyped. From an ethical standpoint this book is very debatable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Rape, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Stalking, Sexual harassment

Moderate: Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Blood, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal cruelty, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail

bbygirl21's review against another edition

3.75

dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: N/A

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

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I really enjoyed this book. I do have some mixed feelings about Killian, but for the most part I loved his character. I love how protective and possessive he is with Glyndon. I love that because he loves Glyndon he was willing to do things with her in mind. The chapters in his pov were fun to read. I've never read a character quite like his.

Glyndon is just a sweetheart. I love how much she cares about everyone. And I hated that Devlin used her compassion and empathy for others against her. I'm so happy he got what was coming for him in the end.

I will say I think my favorite character so far in this series just from this book alone was Brandon. I can't wait to get to his book. But I'm also excited for all the other characters books as well. 

I absolutely recommend this. And I'm excited to get into Creighton and Annika's book next. I really loved their interactions in this book, so I feel like theirs is gonna be a really fun one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Mental illness, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Alcohol

Minor: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Suicide

thewenzl's review against another edition

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Got bored with repition of sociopathic behavior and FMC responses to it, not enough actual plot to moving the book forward.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Classism

rizzykaye's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail

brooke_barker's review against another edition

3.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Sexual harassment

misplacedselchie's review against another edition

2.75

dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Dark romances like this aren't normally my thing but I have a few on my TBR for this month.

I definitely loved the trigger/content warnings in the beginning (as well as my friend's warnings). It helped me make sure that I was in the right mind space for this. Definitely don't skip it. This book is full of non consent. It's almost exclusively the only kind of sex Killian and Glyn partake in and it almost becomes consensual non consent....sans the conversation.

Overall this book is alright. It's about Glyn, a girl that is incredibly depressed and struggling with her friend's suicide that happened in front of her. She ends up blaming her rival school's secret society the Heathens and tries to find out more information because she thinks their initiation is what sent her friend over the edge. This is the plot of the book. 

Ninety-five percent ends up being her and Killian, a psychopath in the Heathens. He becomes fixated on her and decides they're together. Stalker tendencies, manipulative, violent... They continuously have the same conversation. 

There was a twist I hadn't seen coming that could set up the plot and tensions for the rest of the series. Each of the books follows a different Heathen and different Elite/Elite adjacent and I just want more Creighton and Bran. I couldn't understand for the life of me how NO ONE noticed the tension between Bran and Nikolai.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt

poupimali's review against another edition

4.0

dark 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: Complicated

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The first attempt to read this book, few month ago, was a failure.
I stopped within 30 pages and the chapter still remains an issue for me (I will explain below).

I tried again this time with the audiobook and it was a way better experience.

It is not quite an ennemies to lovers but we can relate.
Virgin and awakening FMC 
Psychopath MMC
Secret societies (along with mafia vibes)
He falls first 

Now I have two issues (big ones):
- the first “spice scene” and how it is treated all along the book.

It is basically a rape and a particularly degrading one, it made me really uncomfortable the first time and still do also because it is romanticized all along the book and no it is not.

- the POV of two characters (one chapter each) that give no information whatsoever. These don’t add anything to the story or the other characters. It adds pages but nothing to the plot.

Nevertheless the narrators are really good. So thanks to them.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail

bookdragong24's review against another edition

4.25

dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Grief

Moderate: Torture, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Car accident, Murder, Alcohol