Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Little Stranger by Leigh Rivers

68 reviews

kimmytanzone's review against another edition

2.0

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

cfilby's review against another edition

3.0

dark emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Murder

meg53's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I don't know how to feel after finishing this. It's dark, graphic and not for the faint of heart.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Stalking, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail

theequeendee's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

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Total rating: 4.5/ 5. 
Spice rating: 4/5
Violence rating: 3.5/ 5 

This is a good read if you're into dark/ forbidden romance. The MMC reminds me of Tate from AHS personality wise but a mute.. This is on the taboo side with adoptive siblings. 

I would look up the triggers before reading this book, this book isn't for the faint of hearts. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Mental illness, Sexual content, Violence

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Alcohol

lulubellabooks's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Now, is Malachi actually batshit crazy clinically insane, or is he just in love🥰🥰😂

Olivia and Malachi are delulu, but I liked this😂

✨️(Please read the trigger warnings)✨️

Quotes:
📕If a masked stranger presses a screwdriver to your throat and tells you to run, what do you do?

📕Go kiss your future husband, little sister. And when you do, you better think about me and all the ways I’ll fuck you in his blood.

📕He broke Parker’s legs with his bat and shoved the handle of the bat down one of the other’s throats, dislocating their jaw and making them vomit blood.

📕Ridiculous—I don’t want to kill her; I want to crush her. There’s a difference.

📕No one could ever make her feel the way I do. Ever. And if they do, I’ll kill them.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Gore, Incest, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Stalking, Murder, Sexual harassment

pairswellwithbooks's review against another edition

3.75

dark emotional tense fast-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: Confinement, Cursing, Mental illness, Sexual content, Violence, Blood

Moderate: Drug use, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Acephobia/Arophobia, Murder

bialosqrska's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional sad tense medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Stalking, Acephobia/Arophobia, Sexual harassment

Minor: Addiction, Animal death, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol

liaantje's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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 is the most messen up shit I have ever read, but I did love it. The seconden part was beter than the first. And the made being relaxed a kink, bluegh.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Torture, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Violence, Death of parent

Minor: Animal cruelty, Confinement, Death, Gore, Self harm, Blood, Abandonment

jessanicolesingh's review against another edition

4.5

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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 I LOVED this book and Malachi Vize, there is definitely something wrong with me. He is obsessive, possessive, a selective mute, and a literal diagnosed psychopath (ASPD) who takes the touch-her-and-die trope to the extreme. Was it fucked up? Yes. Were there a few plot holes? Yes. Was I obsessed? HELL YES!!!

There is a laundry list of content warnings; a taboo relationship between foster siblings, sexual content, and violence among other things. Normally when I read trigger warnings I'm like “yeah yeah yeah whatever”, but some one the things in this book had me wide eyed and double taking that they actually happened 👀 This book contains the taboo of Credence and The Tearsmith, the smut and kinks of The Sinner (LORDS series), and the obsessive stalking of Haunting Adeline, but with a much darker, arguably morally-black, MMC. In other words, a combination of some of my favorite things! This is not your beginners guide to dark romance, if you don’t enjoy the nature of the previously mentioned reads then don't even think about coming near this book. 

Now for the main drawback, this book was WAY too short at only 207 pages (digital) and had a rather rushed ending. I desperately needed it to be longer, and if it was, it would have undoubtedly earned a 5 ⭐ from me. On the bright side, the second part of the duet comes out in September!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Sexual content, Violence, Stalking, Murder

Moderate: Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Blood, Kidnapping

Minor: Death of parent

foster sibling relationship

marieke17's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Cursing, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Incest, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail