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These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever

33 reviews

deaddove's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark 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: Homophobia, Toxic relationship

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Suicide attempt, Murder

Minor: Animal death, Self harm, Sexual content, Blood, Antisemitism, Grief, Death of parent

rotatinglibrary's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark emotional 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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This book is dark. Like reading next to a candle stub in a hurricane dark. It’s also beautifully written. The style reminds me specifically of the Vegas chapters of The Goldfinch. 

Near the climax of the book, These Violent Delights becomes almost a satire. Paul’s violence and Julian’s black moods feel contrived. 
They wait for each other to make the next move, never anticipating their own. Other elements in this book do feel real, though. Paul’s sisters and their aloofness, his mother’s anxious fluttering. Julian’s loathing of his family’s wealth and status. The fury of other people just being wrong and not caring. 

Can I say I liked this book? Not really. It disturbed me. It stuck in my head for days after I finished it. I don’t exactly recommend it. If you want an example of stellar writing of a festering immature relationship gone to hell, this is it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt

Moderate: Homophobia, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Antisemitism, Grief, Death of parent, Murder

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism

Other content warnings:drugging, kidnapping, stammer, injury, car accident, codependency, politics, profanity

wickerlibrary's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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this book reads like heartache. it is a book about people who are hurting and in turn want to hurt the world for what it’s done to them. it is not a love story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Antisemitism, Kidnapping, Grief