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These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever

33 reviews

dragonbubbles14's review against another edition

5.0

dark reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Self harm, Antisemitism

Minor: Sexual assault, Suicide

summertimereads's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional slow-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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Idk how to feel

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Murder

Moderate: Homophobia, Grief

Minor: Antisemitism

enyltiak's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, Cursing, Drug use, Homophobia, Suicide, Blood, Antisemitism, Classism

Minor: Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Vomit

iridaceae's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Fire/Fire injury, War

Minor: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Genocide, Gun violence, Racism, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Car accident, Abandonment, Colonisation

ashleysbookthoughts's review against another edition

3.0

dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Loveable characters: No

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These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever (not to be confused with the book of the same title released around the same time by Chloe Gong, which I read and reviewed last April), is a fascinating look at an obsessive, toxic relationship between two young men (boys really) that quickly descends into violence. 

Nemerever does a great job of depicting the obsession between these two characters, the cruelty, gaslighting, and emotional turmoil they put each other through, made more intense by external pressures of family expectations and homophobia. He also writes so that the reader is never quite sure which boy is in control of the relationship; it all feels quite tenuous. There are shades of Crime and Punishment here: committing a crime to prove you can, the guilt that follows, which are interesting and tense. 

My main issue with the book is that it’s too long. I think Nemerever could have accomplished the same level of inspection and discomfort in a tighter narrative. There were so many scenes with characters families that seemed excessive relative to their usefulness in providing context. For that reason, I sometimes struggled to pick up the book. And while I ultimately enjoyed it, as unsettling as the subject is, I never thought about it at all when I wasn’t reading it. 

Still, this is a strong debut and I’m interested to see what Nemerever does next. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Violence, Antisemitism, Murder

spookystag's review against another edition

4.25

dark mysterious tense slow-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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Self harm, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Blood, Murder, Toxic friendship

Moderate: Emotional abuse

Minor: Physical abuse, Antisemitism

zoemenon's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Violence, Antisemitism, Death of parent

julesloyola's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense 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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Antisemitism

Minor: Car accident

foreverinastory's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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 This was almost a dark romance... so close!

Rep: Achillen Jewish MC, rich achillean love interest, Jewish side character, Black side characters.

CWs: Alcohol consumption, animal death (MC collects butterflies), antisemitism, blood death, emotional abuse, gaslighting, homophobia, self harm (purposeful burns), sexual content including dominance, murder and planning of murder, toxic relationship, violence, mental illness (depression), bullying, grief, kidnapping, stalking, suicide, death of parent. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Antisemitism, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol

Moderate: Bullying, Suicide, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent

vilevelns's review against another edition

5.0

dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Murder

Moderate: Homophobia, Suicide, Antisemitism