Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Death's Obsession by Avina St. Graves

13 reviews

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

solaris_wintergale's review

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Mental illness, Drug abuse, Death, Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, Drug use, and Death of parent

Moderate: Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Suicide attempt

lokeylez's review

dark emotional mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Minor: Body shaming, Car accident, Death, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, and Drug use

s1ck4n's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Death, Mental illness, and Sexual content

Moderate: Mental illness, Physical abuse, Stalking, Drug use, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Death, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Death of parent, and Domestic abuse

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

lilroark's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Car accident

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

thatgirlgeorgia's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Emotional abuse, Grief, Sexual content, Death of parent, Cursing, Addiction, Car accident, Death, Drug abuse, and Gaslighting

e_mckay's review

challenging dark mysterious sad medium-paced

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

2.25

This book just made me depressed. I usually love books about death personified but this just didnt do it for me. Maybe it was because it was so short and didnt have much character building so i didnt feel a connection or attachment to any character. Liliths continuous grief and numbness and allowing her bf to basically use her for money and cheat on her really turned me off and she just let it happen. I felt icky

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Grief, Infidelity, Death of parent, Car accident, Drug use, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting