Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Haunting Adeline by H.D. Carlton

673 reviews

blueacorn1991's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

2.5

Someone sure wrote that and got it published.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Car accident, Murder, and Gaslighting

karel_r_thorne's review against another edition

It's the worst writing I've ever read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Rape

Moderate: Gun violence and Rape

Minor: Blood

sb_readz's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Stalking, Car accident, and Murder

Minor: Child abuse

nyallis0n's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Cringey alpha male lead, but the spice isn’t bad!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

valeadriana's review against another edition

Uffff just don't pick this up please, don't give it any more clout, it's racist, antisemitic and every rapist's fanasty. Urgh
Booktok made me pick up this novel, and boy, do I regret not reading up on this more before starting it.

The FMC is raped by her stalker, who conveniently hunts down rapists and human traffickers for a living, but then does the EXACT SAME THING to her???
 
This is so so so bad and I just want to factory reset my brain to never ever have touched upon this bullshit novel

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

carithecandy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

1.0

Basically a glorification of stalking, sexual assault and rape. Furthermore the main character is annoyingly stupid (like who tf stays alone in a creepy house far from civilization if you're getting stalked?) and the stalker is a hypocrite (I mean, he's the leader of an organisation that's saving girls from sex trafficing but at the same time he's tormenting and raping another girl, just because he's obsessed with her?)...
Generally, I can deal with stalking, sexual assaut etc. in a book, however, romanticizing that? Absolutely not!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Stalking, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Death, Blood, Trafficking, and Murder

Minor: Child death

lokeylez's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

it’s really well written but also traumatized me

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Stalking, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape, Cannibalism, and Alcohol

Minor: Child death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Vomit, Kidnapping, Car accident, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual harassment

emmadb766's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Stalking, and Murder

supermaurryn's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

Was mildly disappointed with this book. It's mainly a constant rate fantasy. I did like the mix of ghost story, murder mystery, romance the genre had to it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Stalking, Car accident, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

carleyaconrad's review against another edition

dark 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Antisemitism, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail