Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Twisted Love by Ana Huang

650 reviews

agw622's review

challenging dark emotional fast-paced

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

4.0

This is a pretty good grumpy/sunshine. It does get messy and resolved very quickly in the 3rd act, but it was alright.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

Minor: Infidelity, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, and Alcohol

smartcookiesca's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Violence, Kidnapping, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, and Gaslighting

megnut's review

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

3.75

Some parts are it were solid, others were a little too predictable for me. (Did appreciate that this whole relationship was over a fairly long time period than just a couple weeks, like some other books.)
It seemed like it was almost a mafia book, but with no mafia. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Gun violence, Physical abuse, Torture, and Abandonment

Minor: Infidelity, Kidnapping, Stalking, and Fire/Fire injury

escapeoffreality's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted reflective relaxing 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, and Death of parent

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual harassment

la_betis's review against another edition

dark 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

1.0

Worst book ever. He‘s a complete psychopath, a murderer, stalker, super controlling. Toxic!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Stalking, Death of parent, and Murder

kcbatts's review against another edition

dark

• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Violence, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Sexual assault

irisvdn's review against another edition

emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.5

Would be 5 stars but I really didn't like the

stalking

at the end

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Infidelity, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Stalking, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

karinreadsalot's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Gun violence, Kidnapping, and Death of parent

Moderate: Physical abuse and Suicide

Minor: Torture

ac_52's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

 There were some cute moments, but I definitely felt like the plot was all over the place. It was hard to see any sort of development in their relationship with how much time skipping was going on, almost as if it was being used as an excuse to skip relationship development and sweep that stuff under the rug. 

The plot twist? was okay. I didn’t see it coming, but it really had little impact on the story in my opinion.

I can see the hype around the book and I didn't exactly mind the writing. It's made me interested in reading the rest of the series and maybe some more of Ana Huang's books. 

Also, Alex is just not.... He's not it. He literally has somebody stalking Ava for damn near half the book and she's supposed to be okay with that. And I loved the whole 'groveling' thing but at the same time, it was lowkey disappointing to see Ava get back with him even after everything he did. Maybe if you're into sociopaths he's your jam, but half the things he did were either downright wrong or just... Ew. The idea of him following her to London is super cute until you think for three seconds and realize that he is just stalking her at that point. Which is not cute. And threatening to kill her poor friend when he was just shooting his shot? Okay buddy, calm down. You can make the threats, but this man meant every single one seriously. That is concerning.

Spice Level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️/5

TLDR; the plot is very inconsistent, the male love interest isn't all that loveable, and there was barely any character development done on page 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Stalking, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Body horror, Cursing, and Blood

nixdrafts's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Kidnapping, Death of parent, and Murder