Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Twisted Love by Ana Huang

142 reviews

hayley_read_books's review

adventurous dark emotional funny tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Stalking, Blood, Child death, Murder, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Sexual content, Violence, and Panic attacks/disorders

absolutely_court's review against another edition

emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Child abuse, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Murder, Kidnapping, Sexual harassment, and Suicide

tesscurran's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, Panic attacks/disorders, and Grief

Moderate: Murder, Death, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Kidnapping, and Mental illness

alxisrae's review against another edition

emotional funny sad fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing and Sexual content

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, and Alcohol

Minor: Death, Death of parent, Child abuse, Violence, and Murder

honey_pie's review

medium-paced

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

1.0

huge spoiler warning for this review I have a lot to say for some reason but tdlr without spoilers: the first third is fun but then I realised the writing is actually awful and the plot is stupid and Alex is actually insanely toxic and a bit pathetic

anyways

so as I said the first third or so was alright, I got really invested for the first half because I kind of liked the whole enemies to lovers kind of thing even tho they weren't exactly enemies she just didn't like him much and he wasn't interested. but the moment he took interest in her he was just full of red flags like storming into a photoshoot just because she was with another guy and deleting the pics of her like wtf ?? I'm supposed to like this man who's so overprotective she can't have a life of her own if it involves another man (weren't even friends let alone dating at this point btw).

and on top of the countless red flags, there were dumb plot holes like Alex somehow putting Michael in prison only 24hr after they got a confession from him with no court case or ANYTHING. and him discovering stuff about his uncle and literally an hour later the writer saying he had someone researching him "day and night" like it's been literally an hour?? an HOUR?? 

the height of the book was at the 75% mark, I skipped a fair bit after that because it was BORING and then when I did read it the rest was Alex literally following her to London when she wanted nothing to do with him and she had found out he'd been lying to her their whole relationship. and yet he not only hired someone to follow her but shows up and says he is going to be the one following her literally stalking her around London. and he's all pathetic begging for forgiveness and saying he had his heart opened as if he didn't ruin her life, almost gt her killed, STALK HER, prioritise himself at every turn and be insanely overprotective and controlling the whole time. AND SHE FORGIVES HIM

a load of shit imo

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Stalking, Violence, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, and Panic attacks/disorders

cerys1411's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, and Mental illness

Minor: Grief, Death of parent, Gun violence, and Gaslighting

alyciajstewart's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful sad 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

4.25

Ava and Alex stole my heart! I loved watching their relationship blossom, and I am thrilled that they got their happily ever after. I also appreciate that the author didn't make it too easy for them and allowed the time required to rebuild trust. The storyline had enough twist and turns to keep me engaged without detracting from the romance. Well I did see the twist coming, the author did a great job at making it still a shock. The spicy scenes were well done and not overdone. I look forward to reading the next books and continuing to learn more about the other characters that were introduced in this novel.

(As a side note, if you had a book with an epilogue that is the same as the bonus scene available online.)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Stalking, Suicide, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Gaslighting, and Grief

edietz22's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Sexual content, Blood, Child death, Death, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Body horror, Blood, Stalking, Death of parent, Confinement, Kidnapping, Torture, Cursing, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

sshpurple1's review against another edition

dark emotional funny sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, and Sexual content

Moderate: Stalking, Alcohol, and Bullying

Minor: Gaslighting, Grief, Drug use, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Murder, and Child death

sshpurple1's review against another edition

dark emotional funny

• 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Child abuse, Cursing, Death of parent, Death, Drug use, Alcohol, and Gaslighting

Minor: Bullying, Gaslighting, Stalking, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Violence, and Misogyny