Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Death's Obsession by Avina St. Graves

23 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

bookfulthoughts's review

dark emotional mysterious 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

3.0

A spicy short read 🫦🌶️

“You cannot run from me, because I will catch you. You cannot hide from me, because I will find you. I have smelt your scent, let it linger on my skin, you are imprinted in my memory.” 

I really liked the concept of this book! It was spicy 🌶️🌶️🌶️ and very interesting at times. Other times I was losing interest. I took so long to read this because I kept starting and putting it down 🥴. I did not get the ending to be honest. I have questions but I’m not sure if I care enough to get answers for them. If you take out the smut it was okay. Even for a short smut filled book it could have been executed better, but this is my opinion! It was a super short read and If you just want to read a quick dark romance with spice and minimal plot. Then this might be for you! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Car accident, Gaslighting, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, and Stalking

Moderate: 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

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

reading_one_more_book's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Please read the TW.
That being said, the plot, the characters, the ending, all good 😊

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, and Gaslighting

_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