Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Death's Obsession by Avina St. Graves

8 reviews

bookboyfriend4life's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Grief, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, Death, Suicide attempt, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Cursing, Drug use, Sexual content, Infidelity, Medical trauma, Stalking, and Suicide

Minor: Murder, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Body horror, Cancer, Deadnaming, Drug use, Gaslighting, Gore, Medical content, Medical trauma, Stalking, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Blood, Cursing, Infidelity, Animal death, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Car accident, Grief, and Suicide attempt

chrisljm's review

fast-paced

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

1.0

Decided to read this on the train home after a long day of work and was bored and just needed something where I didn’t need my brain activity to be going above 70%, but I should’ve just sat there and stared at the wall. 

Cringe pet names and cringe dialogue. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Death, Sexual content, Mental illness, Death of parent, and Car accident

Moderate: Infidelity, Medical content, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Drug abuse and Murder

gracehannahh's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Stalking, Death, Grief, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Murder, Blood, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Car accident, Death of parent, Drug use, Violence, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, and Gore

fairylass's review

emotional mysterious reflective sad fast-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? No

4.0

Avina truly proves that smutty books can also make you cry because of how poetic and beautiful they’re written. Not only was the spice KILLER (hahaha get it), the story was so moving. She really knows how to tug at your heart strings while also writing out your deepest fantasies that you haven’t even spoken out loud. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death of parent, Stalking, and Death

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail

abicaro17's review

dark funny reflective fast-paced

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

4.0

This is definitely a dark read but its good and fast too. Its definitely not a book to read too far into but its cute and delivers exactly what it promises: dark smut with a hint of plot. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Stalking, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Infidelity, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Body horror, Domestic abuse, Animal death, Blood, Sexual content, Car accident, Cursing, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Death, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, and Addiction

bangiebangs's review

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

2.5

2.5*
Spice: 4/5 (but somewhat infrequent)

Not sure whether I didn't like this much because it is a stalker romance or because the writing was just a bit meh for me. 

I don't usually read stalker romance because it's just not my jive, something I can't quite find romantic or desirable in any way. At least not when it's so on the nose. The story also doesn't really work for me. Lilith has lost her family, Death is obsessed with her. Why, and what is it with that backstory

like, why doesn't she remember, what's the reason for that? Makes no sense to me. Why does she have to remember? No idea. Does she join him as a reaper in the end? How, why, what is the system of things here? idk.

In terms of writing, the story was fine. It's POV narration, and I think the way that grief has pulled Lilith under and put her into depression was done well. The MMC is just "this is mine, I want it so I take it".

The idea here was obviously to make him a villain-who-helps-the-woman-he-loves-heal type, but while I get some of it, the way it is done feels too simple, and we don't get enough information about motivation imo

. I find that a bit boring. 

So overall, I'm on the fence on this one. Wouldn't recommend as I'm pretty sure there must be better stalker romances out there if that's your thing. There is also better smut out there, and more interesting shadow daddies (though this one has a nice twist to that). So... yeah. I read it, but I don't think you have to.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Sexual content, Death, and Stalking

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Infidelity, and Murder

skillyillian's review

dark emotional sad 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

3.75

Okay okay okay booktok got me interested and I read it in a day. I'm def familiar with dark stories and monsterfucker type beats so I figured, what the hell, why not?

A friendly reminder to check TWs, the author also has it in the front of the book.

I wish this had been more fleshed out, and Lilith didn't have a ton of personality, but I didn't mind either of those things too much. Letum was so kind, the small things he does for her made me smile, and giving her space to figure out what she needed was a step away from what most dark romances have. The nicknames could be a bit much sometimes but I won't really complain bc they were cute and it wasn't the exact same one over and over (looking at you, little mouse). Overall, more compassionate shadow daddies concerned for your mental health, please. 

I'm not really into the tiddy slap variety of smut, buuuuut it was still probably spicier than almost anything else I've read before. I'm also still dipping my toes into true dark romance tho (they say, having read manacled in less than four days).

The ending was fine, idk why people are so pressed about it? I felt like it tracked pretty decently with context from the rest of the story.

Not the most groundbreaking of monsterfucking by any means, but nonetheless a good read for something quick, fun, spicy, and dark. I wouldn't be opposed to reading more from this author 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, Cursing, Gaslighting, Grief, Infidelity, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Suicide, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Cancer, Injury/Injury detail, and Suicide attempt

theartistreader's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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

Tropes:
-Death/Grim Reaper × human soulmate
-Sweet hero
-Broken heroine
-🌶️ Scenes with both Death + his shadow 

This was such an amazing debut book, I don't think I've ever been so hooked. People complained about the trigger warnings and spice but I honestly can't see their issue. Is it wrong of me to be demanding another book by this author already?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug use, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Suicide, and Suicide attempt