Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Twisted Hate by Ana Huang

12 reviews

robynslibrary's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious sad tense medium-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

5.0

"𝕀 𝕨𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕗𝕣𝕠𝕞 𝕨𝕒𝕟𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕥𝕠 𝕜𝕚𝕝𝕝 𝕪𝕠𝕦…𝕥𝕠 𝕨𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕥𝕠 𝕜𝕚𝕝𝕝 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕪𝕠𝕦."
 
Star rating ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Spice rating 🌶🌶🌶🌶

The enemies to lovers slapped so hard! This is by far my favourite Ana Huang book, from the couple to the spice to the plot!!! I am thoroughly obsessed, the tension between Josh and Jules was top-tier for me. You could see the hate they had for each other and how they wanted to keep on hating, however, cupid got involved and things changed. I loved the forced proximity as it added so much tension to the two of them and what was to happen next! I loved that they were more relatable from the point of them not being rich or CEOs, middle-class people, falling head over heels and I was there for it all!


Genre: Romance

Tropes:  Enemies to Lovers, Best Friend’s Brother, Forced Proximity, Opposites Attract, a possessive jealous MC, a morally grey MC, and a grumpy x sunshine

Trigger warnings: Abusive parents, Blackmail, Death of a parent, Death of a minor (small scene), Mildly dubious consent (one scene), Sexual harassment, Stalking

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Stalking

Minor: Child death and Child abuse

sophie14nm's review against another edition

emotional 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Child death, Stalking, and Emotional abuse

kenzie_simone456's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious sad tense 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Child death, Death of parent, Physical abuse, and Stalking

simonn21's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective medium-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

3.75

This book has so far been my favourite from the twisted series although I still need to read Twisted Lies. I liked how the Josh and Jules had their own ambitions and SOME of their banter. Won't lie the whole hating each other thing and then having hate sex in the beginning was not it. I honestly didn't care for Josh's whole betrayal angst and daddy issues, but so far he's probably the most likeable male love interest so far, in that I didn't barf EVERYTIME he spoke. That is reserved for Alex, Fr like mans needs to chill the fuck out. I'm honestly kind of sick of the Twisted series male love interests not showing any emotion what so ever, or when they do its  "in their eyes" or whatever bs that means. I've the realised author tends to reuse a lot of phrases and certain wording, which normally would be fine but like pls stop the "growling" every time someone's upset. One complement for the series is the dual perspectives and flashbacks which helped better tell Jules and Josh's story. Jules was interesting and I was invested in her as a character. My favourite parts was their date in the library (not the one where he went down on her-that was not for me) but the sweet scavenger hunt and the dinner was cute. I HATED ALL THE SCENES WITH ALEX IN THEM LIKE EW.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse

Moderate: Sexual content, Child abuse, Violence, and Death of parent

Minor: Vomit, Child death, Cursing, and Sexism

namenotimportant's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful 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: Blood, Violence, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Pedophilia, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Car accident

Minor: Gun violence and Child death

frantically's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny lighthearted tense slow-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

3.25

I'm so conflicted on this because I really loved it at first!! I thought was moving a bit slowly and I would have liked some more action sooner but it was alright. 

The way Josh handled Jules' confession though, just made me so uncomfortable. The sex scenes were already a bit too dub-con for my taste but this one? He was straight up using sex for punishment and yes, she had a way of tapping out, but they were both clearly not in the right mind space to have sex at that time.

I was really annoyed at Alex in the last book and honestly the first one too, but 1) he was absolutely hilarious in this one and 2) at least my man doesn't have an identity crisis halfway through beating someone up 😤 I hate the "blablabla I'm a doctor which means I can just as well kill people as I can save them" but I read a lot of medical romance, so I've gotten used to it. What I don't want to get used to is ER doctors beating up people to a fucking pulp 💀 AND OFTER AFTER REALISING IT COULD COST THEM THEIR CAREERS like where did all that supposed doctor intelligence go

idk i expected more from this but the first ~70% were still good. won't be reading the next one though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Sexual content, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Grief, Medical content, and Pedophilia

Minor: Stalking, Child death, Mental illness, Suicide, Death, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

culzean's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Stalking, Torture, Car accident, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Sexism, Abandonment, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Blood, Gaslighting, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Body shaming, Alcohol, Gore, Kidnapping, Medical content, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Classism, Murder, Suicide attempt, Vomit, Grief, and Bullying

kellsreads's review against another edition

emotional funny 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

3.5

i hate you josh

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death of parent, Stalking, and Sexual content

jiayaaa_'s review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious reflective sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, Stalking, and Child death

megaanphoebe's review against another edition

fast-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

thank you so much ana for an e-arc of your latest book in the twisted series in exchange for an honest review & for letting me be apart of your arc team 🤍 

this book was so high up on my tbr and i had to start it straight away when it dropped on my kindle! and omfg this book did not disappoint, josh and jules now have a special place in my heart. 

enemies with benefits!!! what a set up & between a doctor during his residency and a law who is about to take her bar 😩 name a more badass power duo, i dare you!!! 

josh was just incriminating and that dirty talk !!! holy sh*t 🌶😩🥵😮‍💨 ana that spice was something else! i want a josh chen now, especially after that date - an absolute dream omfg 😍 also lets talk about a bloody praise kink!! my new favourite thing ❤️‍🔥

and as for book 4 … i am v v excited to see stella and ******** in twisted lies !!! ❤️‍🔥

— 𝐭𝐰: 𝐬𝐞𝐱𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐥 (𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐜), 𝐬𝐞𝐱𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐫 (𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐟), 𝐚𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 —

— 🌶🌶🌶.5/5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Sexual harassment

Minor: Child death