Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Hooked by Emily McIntire

221 reviews

alyssabuchin's review against another edition

Gore, torture, and stalking. Too intense for me in the context of a romance novel

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Stalking, and Gore

Moderate: Toxic relationship

swalsmeyer's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Murder, and Sexual content

vreyna20_2004's review against another edition

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

3.75

It was going so good until the kidnapping part. Before anyone attacks me, there is some dark romance I like but the kidnapping wasn’t what pissed me off. Actually it was the lack of communication on James' part when Wendy tried explaining that she knew nothing about what happened to Ru. Also hated how innocent Wendy is in everything like it’s fine to be innocent but I kept rolling my eyes when Jonathan would tell Wendy how shitty of a father he is which leads me to my next point. The ending. Good God how horrendous and rushed it felt. I don’t know if you’ve watched a Spanish soap opera where there’s car crashes left and right, someone announces that they have a mystery kid that turns out to be a main character, then more deaths that you constantly have your mouth on the floor by the reveals. Think of that for this book. Smee turns out to be James’ cousin from the Uncle he killed, James is half-siblings with Jonathan because Peter’s wife had an affair which is why he caused the plane to crash that killed his wife and James’ father, then Wendy kills her father and they take Jonathan out of the school and live happily ever after in the boat. I don’t like rushed endings and this wasn’t executed well which made me not like it as much.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, Kidnapping, Sexual content, and Murder

Moderate: Physical abuse, Child abuse, and Emotional abuse

This book also talks about drugs and selling of drugs if you don’t like that please don’t read this book. This book also has child neglect.

lovely_lexlexiii's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Death, Murder, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Gun violence

Moderate: Kidnapping, Sexual content, Drug use, and Toxic relationship

jodybeckman5's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Death, Gore, Sexual content, and Murder

Minor: Blood, Child abuse, and Toxic friendship

ericakes's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

I’ve never wanted to root for the villain more

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Torture, Kidnapping, Gore, and Physical abuse

yokaisbabe's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Murder, Torture, Gore, Abandonment, and Blood

rtrotzko's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual content, Alcohol, Death of parent, Drug use, Gore, Emotional abuse, Torture, Violence, Toxic relationship, Death, and Kidnapping

walskishere's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

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

2.5

This book was... fine. I think the gore was gratuitous, even for dark romance. I just don't think that kind of explicit content is for me. The spicy scenes were good, if a bit repetitive. I probably wouldn't recommend this unless you can handle blood, gore, and body horror.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Gun violence, Gore, Body horror, and Child abuse

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Abandonment, and Alcohol

plusbian's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious relaxing sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

Absolutely delicious to read. Not a retelling per se but a lovely nod to the original story.

The characters were all developed with care (even the minor ones had a little side story) and the plot didn’t disappointed.

Dark and sexy and all kinds of wrong, this is a great start to the series. I already downloaded the second one for my flight tomorrow.

Ps: as much as the plot didn’t disappointed me it is fair to say it wasn’t without its flaws. Some of these scenes were just unbelievable but it is fairly tale inspired so I can’t really fault the story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, Emotional abuse, Death, Gore, Bullying, Cursing, Kidnapping, and Death of parent

Moderate: Sexism, Addiction, and Torture