Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Twisted Love by Ana Huang

57 reviews

a_l_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

3.0

personal review notes:

C 6/10
A 5/10
W 7/10
P 7/10
I 4/10
L 6/10
E 5/10

-> 4.7/10
-> 3 stars

• C: idk, didn't really connect, but wasn't bad either
• W: was an audio book, narration was fine:)
• P: i'm torn on this one, even though there were plot twists i wasn't expecting, a lot was quite predictable, like that michael is not ava father. and even if it was surprising, i didn't really care...
• I: it took me forever to finish listening to this audiobook, i usually only listened to it, when i was doing other things and not, because i really wanted to know what will happen next
• L: not quite sure why alex lied to ava about his feelings after the kidnapping, but chances are high that that was mentioned and i just forgot...
• E: was alright, but i'm not eager to listen to the second book...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Murder, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Stalking, Suicide, Violence, Cursing, Grief, and Sexual violence

Minor: Abandonment

dexlud's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad tense medium-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

3.0

Twisted Love is a really interesting book and I read it quite quickly. The epilogue had me giggling a bit but most of the story is just incredibly odd. My main gripe is the

plot twist of Ava’s father, Michael, which felt incredibly forced for some reason?

, and another one is how forceful Alex was. I’m sure it was all consented and stuff, but the things this man was doing were quite illegal. Other than that, I slightly enjoyed this romance book! Out of my comfort zone but will try to read the others! It feels like a book that not everyone will like, but everyone needs to at least try to read it because it’s definitely an experience.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Death, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Child death, Cursing, Grief, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Blood, Gun violence, Stalking, Suicide, and Murder

Minor: Medical content

madisone's review

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Sexual content, Murder, Suicide, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Abandonment

sea_vid123's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Cursing, Child death, Violence, Stalking, Murder, Mental illness, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Gaslighting, Adult/minor relationship, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, Blood, Sexual content, Panic attacks/disorders, Kidnapping, Gore, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Suicide, and Gun violence

cries's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

Just finished the book and might I just say: this book is nice but I have to say that it’s also cringey. The writing is easy to understand which is great and the dual-pov is amazing but sometimes, the sentences and writing is cringey. The storyline however, is alright. I like it but I don’t love it. 
The last few chapters (Chap34 onwards), however, almost broke me apart. Very well written and I most definitely felt what Ava feels and also slightly felt bad for Alex. 

Overall, this book was great. I haven’t read the other books yet (going to do so after reviewing) so I’m not gonna comment why people boast this series just yet. 
In conclusion, this book was nice. 

Would I read it again? Maybe. 
I enjoyed reading this book and the possessiveness was 🙈 Can’t wait to read the following books in this series 🤭

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Emotional abuse, Cursing, Violence, Medical trauma, Child abuse, and Abandonment

Moderate: Sexual content, Stalking, and Child death

Minor: Blood

direguard's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders and Sexual content

Moderate: Blood, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Death, Gore, Grief, Murder, and Abandonment

Minor: Kidnapping, Alcohol, Medical content, Stalking, Vomit, and Cursing

michaelat21's review

emotional 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? It's complicated

5.0

Anna is the queen of romance! I loved this book it was so good. This was my first book with dark romance themes and I loved it. The characters are great and the story line was so different from a lot of the typical romance books you read. It’s got a ton of amazing tropes too like grumpy X sunshine, brothers best friend, hints of one bed, protective. Amazing amazing 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Violence, Blood, Child death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Stalking, Panic attacks/disorders, and Vomit

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Gun violence, and Kidnapping

yarnarh's review against another edition

emotional funny 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

2.5

Read this because of TikTok. Went in only knowing that it’s a book that has spicy scenes. Which is not bad imo. However didn’t like the possessiveness of the character. He is a walking red flag.

I mean possessive when they are dating, sure. But you broke up and you still go around saying she is mine is just icky.

The communication between the main characters could have been better. Also the plot twist?

The not father killing Ava?

Could have been more thought out. Could have been better. Feels like the author has reached her number of words limit and started cutting chapters out. Like the whole London thing could have been book 2…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Stalking, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Child abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, and Gaslighting

Minor: Abandonment

kyrstin_p1989's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Sort of enemies to lovers, definitely forbidden romance, definitely grumpy sunshine, somewhat dominant/submissive. Absolutely spicy af. My goodness. I loved the romance in this story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Abandonment, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Kidnapping, Stalking, Child abuse, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Classism, Toxic relationship, and Torture

katierosecrane's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

There were many times in the book that I thought were unrealistic in a cringey way. I would rarely dislike this in a book, but it went way too fast.  There were too many different story lines and I felt like I couldn't fully process events/feelings. 

The smut scenes were good and some of the moments were really sweet but it was tarnished by the fast pace, unrealistic moments and over dramatization. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Child abuse, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Grief, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcohol, and Violence