Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Twisted by Emily McIntire

54 reviews

reading_kim_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Kidnapping, Death of parent, and Murder

dani1012's review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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

4.0

Good smut. Meh plot, but only because most of it was predictable after reading Hooked, which was disappointing to me. I hope it's just a coincidence that the first two books I picked up in this series copy and paste some of the same story beats,

namely in the third act. Like, come on, the mildly insane and bloodthirsty assistant backstabs MMC to work with the enemy, kidnaps FMC and brings her to a warehouse to lure the MMC there, where they have a grossly outnumbered fight that the MMC+FMC will obviously win (though someone on their side will sustain a grevious gunshot wound and it will be a question whether or not they survive -- but they will, don't worry), and at some point the FMC is the one to literally pull the trigger on an old relationship that's trying to hold her back.

This book gets props for showing an emotionally abusive parent to an adult child. I actually wish the physical child abuse had not been included; it felt like it was there to justify the MMC

cutting off his mom in the end, as a big character development moment

, when in my opinion, he had the grounds to do so just based on the level of emotional manipulation. (Plus the level of physical abuse was absurd -- like, comically evil. It could've at least been more subtle.) It would have been nice for the mother to be strictly an emotionally abusive parent, but keep the same level of "you didn't deserve how she treated you" from the FMC and keep the resolution.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Violence

kiarra_s's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Grief and Death of parent

Minor: Car accident

wendyk's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

A villainous twist on Aladdin, but it fell kind-of flat for me.

Yasmine is the only daughter of a very wealthy man, but now her father is ill and wants to find her a husband to help run the business after he's gone. Julian, his righthand man, would love to be taking the helm and even though he and Yasmine are enemies, he has a plan that might help them both.

I wasn't terribly invested in these characters. Yasmine once had a crush on Julian, but now she hates him and he apparently hates her. Enemies to lovers with some killing on the side.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, and Murder

lolaluftnagel's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Torture and Murder

arielthereader's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Classism

elledanie's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Cancer and Death

Minor: Cursing, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Blood, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Alcohol

mbolde8's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Loved this story! It’s a slow burn romance, enemies to lovers, age gap with a protective “touch her and die” MMC. The MMC had a rough childhood that leads to a heart of ice which get melted away by the daughter of his business partner. A girl he should not learn to love but does after a forced marriage. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Car accident, Death of parent, and Murder

savage_book_review's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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

4.0

The last of the Never After series available on the Audible Plus catalogue until the end of this week, and it's definitely a case of saving the best until last. 

The narrators of this were spot on for the characters, and they were both engaging and easy to listen to. They suited the characters they were playing, and neither made any major changes when giving voices to other characters - it's certainly less 'acted' than the others in the series, and as a result works so much better. The male performance has also vastly increased my liking of Julian as a character - he may now be my favourite leading man of the series!

They also brought the story to life very well. I was able to more readily engage with the storyline and get more out out of it than I was from my initial read (although I admit that might be down to the fact I had read all of the books in very quick succession, whereas the audios force you to slow your pace). I am pretty confident that this audio will allow me to enjoy the physical book more the next time I pick it up, which I don't necessarily think is the case with the others in the series. 

I also like the fact that this one has the extended epilogue included - the rest don't (but fortunately I have the ebook versions of them).

Out of all four books I've listened to from the series, this is the audio I'd buy without hesitation. Definitely deserves an increased rating from the first read!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child abuse, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, and Sexual content

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Car accident, Alcohol, and Classism

kylasmv15'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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Infidelity, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Medical content, Kidnapping, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Car accident