Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Bound by Honor by Cora Reilly

27 reviews

amieereads's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Rape, Drug abuse, and Murder

lilwanderingpages's review

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.75

Rating update on March 10th, 2022:
4.25 to 4.75
I'll keep what I said because I continue agreeing with everything BUT I've been thinking about the rating of this book because I'm reading of the books in the series and now that I just finished "Bound by Vengence" I can no longer keep the old rating. Now it's 4.75, I think there are only two or three books left so let's see how it'll turn out (I'm hoping for more Aria and Luca).

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Well, I've read the book already but when the audiobook appeared as a suggestion I was just like "why not?" and I don't regret a thing.

I'm growing used to audiobooks and I'm loving it. I don't know if it's because I read the book before listening but I feel like I liked it better this time.

The thing is: this book will never get five stars from me because I just HATE one part of it and I can't pretend it's not there when I'm rating it (even though I do it throughout the rest of the book).

The fact that he cheated on her makes me sick.

While I'm writing this, I already started listening to "Luca Vitiello" - bound by honor by Luca's pov - doesn't change much about what he did because I understood what he meant even without knowing about his side on this (I'll write more about that when I finish that one). 

All of this is just to say that there is no good reason for cheating. Hell, there's no REASON at all to cheat and make be on the cheater's side

  (I started a disclaimer but I just don't feel like it rn). 

 

Born in Blood Mafia Chronicles - reviewed:

 
0.5 - Luca Vitiello:
TSG - https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/57f24b82-8331-460a-bd4d-ae02fc323861
Goodreads - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4561568230

1.0 - Bound by Honor:
TSG - https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/eb670dd1-294d-4e23-9bab-bc9c11aef33f
Goodreads - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4558103572

2.0 - Bound by Duty:
TSG - https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/a71e2654-573c-4d41-a224-363bbfb62ba0
Goodreads - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3021719736

3.0 - Bound by Hatred:
TSG - https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/8e3fc6be-670e-4ae3-8bf1-eba71c361dcd
Goodreads - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4578787289

4.0 - Bound by Temptation:
TSG - https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/e0ad773e-86e3-46fc-a250-df3cc60c318b
Goodreads - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4585687182

5.0 - Bound by Vengeance:
TSG - https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/902ff414-f764-429f-b3a2-dfcd8fd35d0b
Goodreads - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4593389597 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Infidelity, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Misogyny, Murder, and Rape

Minor: Self harm, Suicide, Confinement, Death of parent, and Domestic abuse

findmeinunderland's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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

Sex, violence, moral ambiguity
I loved it. 
I figured they would’ve come to a stage of obvious emotional affection a lot sooner than they did, but I’m a sucker for a slow burn. I was waiting for more playfulness like in the scene at the gym but mafias are usually more dark so it doesn’t bug me as much as it usually would, but that scene came so naturally it was hard not to want more of that dynamic, can’t wait to see if the other books provide that

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Gore, Murder, Rape, Suicide, and Toxic relationship

rachaelboyd's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Sexual content, and Infidelity

Moderate: Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Minor: Misogyny and Suicide

nnennaya_'s review

dark fast-paced

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

3.25

this is a mafia soap opera, obsessed. currently reading the same book but from the dude's perspective and it's better

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Gun violence, Rape, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Murder

lh_reads's review

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gun violence, Murder, Sexual content, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Vomit and Death of parent

Minor: Self harm and Domestic abuse

bookishbabbles's review

dark tense fast-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

This book man... good amount of spice, the main character is extremly sexy but the plot was lacking. Left me wanting more!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Blood, Cursing, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Murder, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Rape, and Violence

monirgzz's review against another edition

dark lighthearted 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Cursing, Gun violence, and Sexism

Minor: Alcohol, Child abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Medical content, Rape, Sexual harassment, and Suicide

lanorton's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-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

2.0

4/5 spice lots of scenes that are well written. This book would have been a 4.5/5 stars if I had stopped before the last few chapters. I really liked their growth together and how they pushed each other. 

Then he sees no problem with not informing her weeks ago that her little sister was sold into a marriage. Also the big ending is I actually love you I don’t just want to Fuck you.

So yup ends on a fairly big Cliff hanger and not a great ending overall. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Vomit

whrohala's review against another edition

dark tense fast-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? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Murder, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship