Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Things We Left Behind by Lucy Score

42 reviews

cmab's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted relaxing 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

5.0

My favourite of the three!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Physical abuse, Murder, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Grief, Death of parent, Blood, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Cancer, Terminal illness, and Death

Moderate: Addiction, Infertility, and Gun violence

ktmcd26's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

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

4.0

I don’t know if it’s because I read books 2 and 3 right in a row in the span of 24-hours and compared to 2 this book doesn’t seem that outlandish, but I thought this one actually kind of made sense. The other very likely scenario is I am just a sucker for a second chance love story. 

I really liked both Slone and Lucien, so I was always rooting for them. However, they didn’t always make it easy. There were some frustrating and unreasonable decisions, but they were dealing with different serious emotional and mental damage, so not necessarily unexpected.

I do wish their story had very different pacing. Like many rom-com books everything is ridiculously rushed at the end of the story. Why o why can’t people in this town date? Why must they be engaged? 

As always with these books, the crime sub-plot really didn’t make sense. Why were those people even remotely involved in these crimes? How in the world was that the resolution? I don’t know, so I am just kind of ignoring it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Domestic abuse, and Murder

coffeekitaab's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

Lucian and Sloane ...and Simon Walton have my heart, ugly cried.  A beautiful story and an easy 5*.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Murder, Police brutality, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Abandonment, and Violence

amandaredinger's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Domestic abuse, Murder, Gun violence, and Violence

Minor: Infertility

worldofv33's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, and Sexual content

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Deadnaming, Pregnancy, Cursing, Grief, and Blood

beckyremillard's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Gun violence, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Violence, Murder, Sexual content, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

graceev's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Domestic abuse, Murder, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Cancer, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Pregnancy and Police brutality

jennabeck13's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted slow-paced

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

4.0

Things We Left Behind by Lucy Score 

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (4/5)

Genre: Romance

About 580 pages

In the last book of the Knockemout series, we finally get the story of Sloane and Lucian. For years there has been tension between them, both sexual tension and hatred. But After seeing their friends fall in love over the past few years, they’ve softened up a bit which is how their fighting turns into foreplay. In an effort to prove how wrong they are for each other, they decide to sleep together one time. But that one time didn’t accomplish what they had hoped. Now they are questioning if they can forgive each other for the past and if there is a compromise on what they want for the future.

This was by far my favorite book in the Knockemout series! The primary reason for this is the build-up we got on Lucian and Sloane in books one and two and their long-standing history. I also liked how this book jumped back and forth between the past and present. Score did a fantastic job neatly wrapping up the series in this book!

Favorite Quote: “Sometimes you have to stop waiting for something to happen and start making it happen.”

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Child abuse, Death of parent, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

lunahale's review against another edition

emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

yes, i know the smut scenes are fantastic, and we all know that line but i’m blushing giggling kicking my feet at “let me wash your hair.” lucian fucking rollins, the man that you are. the enemies to lovers was really doing its thing in this book, too. especially when

they were literally insulting each other on their wedding day as a way to calm down. icons.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Grief, Child abuse, Gun violence, and Murder

Moderate: Cancer and Death of parent

chloesmith443's review against another edition

adventurous challenging funny hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

• 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Violence, and Alcoholism