Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Twisted Hate by Ana Huang

57 reviews

brandie_abbie19's review against another edition

dark 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Violence, Grief, Abandonment, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Addiction, Death, Death of parent, Kidnapping, and Cursing

luciiee's review against another edition

funny lighthearted tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, Death of parent, and Blood

frantically's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny lighthearted tense slow-paced

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

3.25

I'm so conflicted on this because I really loved it at first!! I thought was moving a bit slowly and I would have liked some more action sooner but it was alright. 

The way Josh handled Jules' confession though, just made me so uncomfortable. The sex scenes were already a bit too dub-con for my taste but this one? He was straight up using sex for punishment and yes, she had a way of tapping out, but they were both clearly not in the right mind space to have sex at that time.

I was really annoyed at Alex in the last book and honestly the first one too, but 1) he was absolutely hilarious in this one and 2) at least my man doesn't have an identity crisis halfway through beating someone up 😤 I hate the "blablabla I'm a doctor which means I can just as well kill people as I can save them" but I read a lot of medical romance, so I've gotten used to it. What I don't want to get used to is ER doctors beating up people to a fucking pulp 💀 AND OFTER AFTER REALISING IT COULD COST THEM THEIR CAREERS like where did all that supposed doctor intelligence go

idk i expected more from this but the first ~70% were still good. won't be reading the next one though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Sexual content, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Grief, Medical content, and Pedophilia

Minor: Stalking, Child death, Mental illness, Suicide, Death, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

ka_ke's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.75

If there is one thing I love about Ana Huang’s romance novels, is that when the couple inevitably breaks up, they don’t spend CHAPTERS heart broken and angry. Twisted Hate is a classic enemies to lovers romance novel with the right amount of clapbacks, attitude and smut.

I’m glad we see Josh get the closure he deserves and his relationship with Alex recovers

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Violence, Child abuse, Classism, Cursing, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Misogyny, and Sexual content

Moderate: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Medical content, Pedophilia, and Vomit

Minor: Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, and Gore

hilom's review against another edition

dark funny tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

2.0

I solely liked the banter between the protagonists 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Torture, Cursing, Violence, and Sexual content

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Incest, Child abuse, and Death of parent

strickenbylove's review against another edition

dark emotional slow-paced

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

4.0

Loved the relationship between these main characters. Great banter and chemistry. A perfect contemporary enemies-to-fuck buddies-to-lovers. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Grief, Gaslighting, Death of parent, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Medical content

hannibanani29's review against another edition

emotional funny slow-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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Cursing, Violence, and Alcohol

Moderate: Blood, Death of parent, Death, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Medical content, and Grief

Minor: Kidnapping, Stalking, and Murder

culzean's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Stalking, Torture, Car accident, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Sexism, Abandonment, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Blood, Gaslighting, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Body shaming, Alcohol, Gore, Kidnapping, Medical content, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Classism, Murder, Suicide attempt, Vomit, Grief, and Bullying

lauramparis's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Cursing, Death of parent, Grief, Kidnapping, and Medical content

Minor: Abandonment, Murder, Adult/minor relationship, and Stalking

noellelovesbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Content Warnings: Explicit sexual content, bullying, violence, grief, anxiety, death, murder, misogyny, abandonment, torture, blood/gore, and medical trauma. Mention of: child abuse, child neglect, child endangerment, grooming, sexual assault, predatory behavior, rape, coercion, toxic relationships, parental abandonment, stalking, kidnapping, blackmail, revenge porn, and suicidal ideations.

Ever since I read, and loved Twisted Love, where we get to see a few fiery interactions between Jules and Josh I knew I needed to read their book. We get enemies to lovers between Ava’s [the MC of Twisted Love] BFF and older brother and it is steamy.

Seven years ago Jules befriended Ava and Josh has been against the friendship ever since. Only seeing Jules as a bad influence who’s prone to trouble Josh doesn’t want his younger sister anywhere near her and has been very vocal about it.

A lifetime of people disregarding and making assumptions about her has led Jules to despise anyone who looks down on her especially overconfident, and rude, future doctors like Josh Chen.

Both Jules and Josh are positive they know exactly who the other is…and hate them. Little do they know when forced together they may find they’re not that different after all.

I was not prepared for how good this book was. A fan of enemies to lovers and the BFF’s brother tropes I knew I was going to enjoy reading this book I just didn’t anticipate how much. Not only do we get great tropes between Jules and Josh but we also get to see Josh handle his severed relationship with his father and his ex-BFF Alex. Getting to see both characters face their pasts and overcome them had me cheering for them individually as well as together.

Knowing nothing about book four, which will feature Stella and Christian, I’m excited to see what happens. I feel like we’ll finally get more information about the stalker Stella dealt with, and since Christian is in security maybe she goes to him for help…really curious to see their love story unfold. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexism, Sexual content, Violence, Torture, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, Abandonment, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, and Grief

Moderate: Pedophilia, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, and Murder