Reviews tagging 'Murder'

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

itsuniquefeels's review

dark fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder

dr_steph's review

dark emotional fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking

Moderate: Suicide 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

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

mprovo_13's review

emotional reflective slow-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Addiction, Drug abuse, Death of parent, Drug use, Car accident, Murder, and Toxic relationship

things100's review

dark mysterious 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

3.0

A quick read, wasn’t very memorable though 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship and Sexual content

Moderate: Gaslighting

Minor: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, and Suicide attempt