Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Death's Obsession by Avina St. Graves

42 reviews

hyrulehippie's review

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, and Sexual content

aelin_morgenstern's review

dark emotional sad

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Stalking, Sexual content, and Death

Moderate: Car accident

Minor: Death of parent, Infidelity, Drug abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

cakeshortbottom's review

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicidal thoughts, and Sexual content

Moderate: Car accident, Gaslighting, Infidelity, and Death of parent

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

bittie_bee's review

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Sexual content

Moderate: Drug use

stephaniemcuervo's review

fast-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Death, and Death of parent

_froggy_'s review

dark emotional mysterious sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Death, Death of parent, and Stalking

Moderate: Car accident, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Suicide attempt

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

crispycritter's review

2.0

Creative use of the shadow daddy, I guess.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Stalking, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship