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Scarred by Emily McIntire

13 reviews

readyforit's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

3.5⭐️4🌶️
This book is kind of a hamlet/lion king retelling but again for the never after series, it seems the author is mostly using names and places and vague plot lines. I’d say this plot more strictly adhered to hamlet than hooked did to Peter Pan though. I like this book but I definitely liked hooked better. It’s a slow burn historical romance (light on history, heavy on romance), so all the spice is within the last 40% of the book.

I really liked Tristan’s character, as he’s the kind of morally gray for a good cause that I can get behind! He’s the kind of man who would burn the world or cut off a man’s hand for touching his woman. He’s definitely very possessive. He’s the definition of no grave could hold me down, I’ll crawl home to her. I loved his audiobook narrator as well. 

One of the main complaints I have that is I listened along to the audiobook while reading the KU ebook and there are some major differences between the two. Some are minor like sentence structure (which can happen if narrators/editors don’t catch them) but also the ebook completely eliminated 90% of the lion king nods. For example, Tristan calls Simon “little tiger” in the ebook but “little lion” in the audiobook. The very end conflict is COMPLETELY different between the two versions and I’m not sure why?

Maybe the author wanted to have the FMC save the day.

This might be nitpicky but I really didn’t care for the narrator for Sara, I felt like she should’ve had a much deeper voice. She tends to pitch her voice higher, making her sound like a child. (She’s meant to be 21 and Tristan is 26). That might have contributed to my dislike of her character. I really feel like the FMCs in the never after series so far haven’t had much of a personality. I guess you expect that with Wendy, since she doesn’t have a huge personality in the movie, but we keep getting these fleshed out, deep MMCs and then they’re in love with women who have the personality of a fiber cracker. I’m still going to continue with the series but I probably won’t be rereading this one if I ever return to it! Also the extended epilogue available through the author’s website is just okay, you could probably skip that one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Classism, Sexual assault, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Blood, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual content, and Confinement

Moderate: Death of parent, Drug use, Racism, War, Ableism, and Suicide

Minor: Pregnancy, Abortion, and Alcohol

There’s a lotta death in this one

niamhrowanch's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.75

a lot better than the first one and the ending epilogue is so cutesy 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death of parent, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, War, Cursing, Death, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Blood, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Physical abuse, Confinement, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Torture, Addiction, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, and Violence

marucchiato's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.0

This was... Meh. Way darker than the first book to the series, Hooked. Obviously the spicy scenes are good, but the rest of it was kinda boring. Please read trigger warnings before picking up this book and honestly any book in this series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Sexual harassment, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Infidelity, Death, Child abuse, Blood, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Bullying, Racism, Physical abuse, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Pregnancy, and Grief

colorcrystals's review against another edition

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Drug use, Infidelity, Murder, Sexual assault, Violence, Torture, Classism, Bullying, Death of parent, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Mental illness

Moderate: Alcohol, Blood, and Physical abuse

Minor: Homophobia, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Racism

mbolde8's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful 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? It's complicated

5.0

I loved Hooked and I have to say I loved this twisted fairy tale as well! It was a little bit of a slow start but I soon fell in love with the characters and storyline. This one is a twisted storyline from the lion king and has an enemies to lovers storyline as the two main characters have the same agenda but just don’t know it until half way through the book. It has a happy ending and plenty of smutty moments!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Murder

Minor: Sexual assault, Suicide, Child death, and Pregnancy

sjsoucie97's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Sexual content, and Classism

Moderate: Death, Drug use, Confinement, Toxic relationship, Blood, Death of parent, and Violence

Minor: Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Abortion, and Sexual harassment

noellelovesbooks's review against another edition

3.5

 Content Warnings: Sexual content, violence, gun violence, blood, torture, death, confinement, sexual harassment, sexual assault, sexism, classism, war themes, and suicide.
Mention of: death of parent[s], grief, pregnancy, death of a child, child abuse, and child neglect.

I went into this not realizing that this book wouldn't be connected to Hooked so realizing it's set in the early 1900s really through me for a loop at first. Since I'm so used to reading fantasy and historical romance with royalty...my brain kept trying to thing this was much earlier in time than it was so when they'd mention guns/cameras/etc it took me a minute to remember when it was set.

There is just something about a man, who had a rough childhood, that believes he's this hard carefree person when in reality he does so many things that shows he cares...thats just *chefs kiss*

We also love a leading lady who takes no bullshit and is willing to do whatever it takes to avenge a wrong.

A fun read though doesn't feel like a book I'll reread over and over. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gun violence, Blood, Death, Sexism, Classism, Torture, War, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Confinement, Sexual assault, and Suicide

Moderate: Child abuse and Grief

Minor: Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Child death

elledanie's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Murder, Sexual content, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Cursing

Moderate: Sexual assault, Rape, Classism, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Kidnapping, Alcohol, Bullying, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Violence, Body horror, Infidelity, Death of parent, War, Pregnancy, Misogyny, Grief, Blood, and Mental illness

hannibanani29's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Drug use, Bullying, Blood, Sexual assault, Violence, Death, Sexual content, and Torture

Moderate: Grief, Sexism, Misogyny, Cursing, Classism, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Gun violence, Confinement, Kidnapping, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Abandonment, Abortion, Infidelity, Suicide, Rape, Alcohol, Child abuse, Mental illness, Homophobia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Racism, and Pregnancy

dosxhime's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.25

Throughout the novel, I kept asing myself: where an i find my own trisitian fassa? nowhere, because perfection does not exist. I absolutely lost my mind when I read how wrapped Tristian is around Sara's little finger. Unhinged, morally grey, and dark-haired. all that i need in a man. 

4.25 / 5 B

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Torture, Sexual content, Sexual assault, and Bullying

Moderate: Blood, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Infidelity, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Rape