Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Twisted Lies. Ea, slăbiciunea lui by Ana Huang

84 reviews

faeriedvll's review against another edition

3.75

dark mysterious 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: Complicated

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Why was it so LONG for no reason.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Hate crime, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, Stalking, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gun violence, Pregnancy, Classism

Minor: Death, Alcohol

zoedonn's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Sexual content, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Gore, Death of parent

Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Dementia, Abandonment

angelxread's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional hopeful lighthearted reflective tense fast-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

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This is tbe best book purely because they're not having sex every 2 pages.

And Stella being pregnant!? Plus i need to know if Jules and Josh have gotten marrier or not yet.

I hate Julian. He needed therapy, badly. Fucking love Christian hes my fav!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Grief, Pregnancy

Minor: Gun violence, Sexual harassment

kirmca's review against another edition

1.0

dark mysterious tense medium-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: Body horror, Death, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Dementia, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

kkells's review against another edition

1.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Just no

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Stalking, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

katie0528's review against another edition

4.0

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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I first read Ana Huang's Kings of Sin series first where Christian is a reocurring character, so I'm glad I finally reached his story.  Stella Alfonso is an Instagram influencer, model, and aspiring fashion designer. When she needs to up her follower count to secure a luxury brand partnership, she decides she needs a fake boyfriend. Enter her neighbor/landlord and cybersecurity expert Christan Harper. He agrees to be her fake boyfriend in exchange for her coming to events with him. But his company has a mole selling information to his competitors just as Stella has a stalker reemerge after years away. As they rely on each other for support, their feelings grow less fake and put the entire ploy in jeopardy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Violence, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Emotional abuse, Torture, Blood, Death of parent

Minor: Pregnancy

itss_kayy's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful sad 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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Violence, Blood, Alcohol

Minor: Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Medical content, Dementia, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail

zoe_senaye's review against another edition

4.5

emotional mysterious reflective sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, Blood, Dementia, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

mika_rom's review against another edition

3.75

dark emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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worst book in the series, christian is basically an alex dupe and their romance had no build-up

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail

ac_52's review against another edition

5.0

emotional lighthearted sad tense fast-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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This book was the longest one in the series, which obviously leaves so much to talk about in this review. I'll start off by saying this: I absolutely adored this book. I walked into it with absolutely no spoilers about the content which made it all the more impactful. 

Not many books have made me cry, but this one got me - not as hard as Twisted Games, but it still brought some tears to my eyes. 

Stella and Christain are both... Interesting, to put it simply.

The whole ending sequence with Stella finding out about Christian's obsession and lowkey finding out that he murders people in his free time was... Something. I didn't mind it much, but it bothered me a bit that Stella just... Accepted it because she loved Christian. Considering that the book spent a lot of time establishing the depth of Stella's morals, it was kind of sad to see her just accept something like that (though I can't argue for the sake of the happy ending and the warning that this was the darker of books Huang has written).

Onto my opinions about Christian. I liked Christian for what he was. I'm not super into dark romance (maybe I just haven't found the right book), but I think for him being darker than the other male leads, it made sense. He was really only 'dark' in the sense of murdering people and torturing them, but other than that it wasn't super dark. Yes, he did illegal things. But don't most rich men in romance books? It was really cool to see Christian inside of his own book rather than within the context of the others as it really lets you see his character shine through. He's a huge softie at heart, as much as he tries to deny it. Christian and Josh are very similar in the kink department, except Christian is Josh on steroids. Nothing was sensual about the sex scenes in this book, and I was very much digging that. I liked how it was able to represent another side of intimacy while making it a space where it wasn't weird or out-of-the-ordinary. If super BDSM stuff isn't for you, then I'd say skip over the intimacy.

The pacing of this one was a lot faster than the other books. The added pages helps to tie everything together while also giving readers new content about the rest of the Twisted couples. It's very BDSM, so be warned. I think it was a satisfying conclusion to the series and left no questions to be answered with everybody getting their happy ending. 

TLDR; This is my second favorite book out of the series. The relationship dynamic between Stella and Christian was refreshing and was enjoyable to follow. It plucked my heartstrings a few times- through tears and laugher. 

Spice level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️.5/5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Dementia, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicide, Vomit, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment