Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

My Dark Romeo by L.J. Shen, Parker S. Huntington

7 reviews

rubellaface's review

funny lighthearted tense 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

3.75

So delightful, so terrible. 

High praise for the sharp dialogue. The banter is so quick and funny and reminds me of the first time I read Garwood. The dialogue definitely makes this a fun read.

And love love love how much is in Romeo's perspective. When it comes to strong, alphahole types, it's easy to assume the worst when their actions are horrid, so it was yummy to read how every situation had him spiraling out of control. 

However about halfway through the book, Dallas' started to come off as rude, wasteful, and a total villain. While it's fun for her to needle Rom at work, I feel bad for the people who work for him that have to deal with the fallout of her whimsy. 

And I get that all that she wants is a baby, but he admitted to trauma and not having kids is a choice as well. It's not cute when guys force women to breed, and it's just as monstrous when women do it.

And I say this all with much regret because I was really in love with how Dallas was written and how sharp and witty she is. I just can't get over her selfish, short-sighted choices. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, War, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Violence, Toxic relationship, Infidelity, and Mental illness

Moderate: Alcohol, Panic attacks/disorders, Confinement, Toxic friendship, Stalking, Addiction, Blood, Bullying, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Medical content, Classism, and Cursing

ceredonia's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

1.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Alcohol, Child abuse, Cursing, Emotional abuse, and Infidelity

Minor: Gun violence, Medical trauma, Vomit, Violence, Stalking, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, and Pregnancy

booklover0804's review against another edition

adventurous 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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Cursing, Gun violence, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, and Panic attacks/disorders

ecravens's review

dark funny mysterious 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Abandonment, Gun violence, Death of parent, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Alcohol, Death, Blood, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Grief, Forced institutionalization, Mass/school shootings, Panic attacks/disorders, Kidnapping, and Sexual content

the_jessmarie's review

I didn't realize this book was mostly smut with a little plot and that's just not my thing. Once we got to the toothbrush after he practically assaulted her (very dubious concent) and crossed into intolerable, toxic alfa male, I tapped out. Definitely not for me. A shame, too, because I was enjoying the silly, fun plot line, minus the smut. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Sexual content

Moderate: Cursing, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Sexual assault

culzean's review

dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Gun violence, Abandonment, Alcohol, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Grief, Sexual content, and Vomit

midnightrose_reads's review

dark funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

2.0

My Dark Romeo is the first standalone in the Dark Prince Road series. Romeo Costa attends a party in Chapel Falls, Georgia to find a wife. He’s set his sights on Dallas Townsend, the fiancée of his industry rival Madison Licht. He then proceeds to be caught with Dallas in a compromising position, and insists she break her engagement to Madison and marry him instead. Her father reluctantly agrees. Dallas Townsend and her friends and sister are attending this debutante ball because it’s a tradition in Chapel Falls. She’s more interested in the food however. When she learns there’s British shortbread at a particular table she goes over to it where she ends up meeting Romeo and his two friends, Zach & Oliver. She’s less than pleased that Romeo insists on them getting married, but doesn’t have much choice after her father agrees. Romeo takes her home to get her things and then to Potomac where he lives. They eventually get married. He has another reason to marry Dallas than just hitting back at his industry rival, his father, Romeo Costa Sr., has made a condition of him being named CEO that he get married. Romeo has plans beyond that for Costa Industries, that we slowly learn about. On Dallas’s part her biggest want in life is to be a mother, but Romeo has no intention of giving in to her on that score.

This is one of my least liked billonaire romances that I’ve read. I found the characters to actually be TOO aggressively mean to each other for a longer period than I liked. Romeo is the typical cold calculating male protagonist, and Dallas tries to give as good as she gets, which makes her a eye rolling inducing character for me. Her single-mindedness about getting pregnant took the fun, sexiness and romance out of the story. She was using Romeo as a sperm bank, not a potential life partner, for much of the book. Romeo was also too aloof, for too long in the novel. They didn’t spend nearly enough time with each other. It’s really not until after the 60% mark you get glimpses of a potential romance, and after the 80% mark that they start opening up to each other.

Once they start opening up to each other you learn about each other’s traumas, which were both pretty horrific. They suddenly realize they love each other after some things happen with the secondary plot, however it’s hard to believe. It’s hard to believe in their love, because in my opinion it happens way too late in the story. 

The biggest thing I liked in this book was all the food mentions and ironically Romeo’s friendship with Zach and Oliver. 

I usually love enemies to lovers romances & billonaire romances but this was unfortunately a big fail for me. I have a book from Parker on my TBR that I’m excited to get to, but I won’t be continuing the Dark Prince Road series.

*I might also be someone who prefers fantasy ‘Beauty and the Beast’ retellings than contemporary ones because ‘Stolen Heir’ a book in the Brutal Birthright series by Sophie Lark is my least liked book in that series.*

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Medical trauma, Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, Child abuse, and Medical content

Moderate: Violence and Suicidal thoughts