Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Reaper by A. Zavarelli

6 reviews

belle13's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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

Amount of spice:🔥🔥🔥
Explicitness: 🌶️🌶️🌶️

❤️Inexperienced MMC
❤️Irish Mafia
❤️Possessive MMC
❤️THEY HAVE IRISH ACCENTS
❤️Unexpectedly Sweet
❤️Boston Setting

This was miles better than book one and it felt like the author was settling into the characters a little more. Both of the leads are so much more complex and loveable than the previous book. It was also surprisingly tender and sweet which is always surprising when it comes to mafia romance.

I was just a little bored by the end of this unfortunately and I have a feeling that each book in this series is going to follow a very similar formula because the three I’ve read so far have all felt very much the same. I wanted to binge the whole series but I’m already the tiniest bit over it.

CHECK THE CWs PRETTY PLEASE

I would recommend it if you like a mafia romance with a good dose of sweetness and a MMC that needs a little direction, if ya know what I mean. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Physical abuse, Confinement, Gun violence, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Grief, Death of parent, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

schottofjen's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Sexual content, Torture, Drug use, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Cancer, Blood, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Death, Domestic abuse, Violence, Child abuse, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, Death of parent, Child death, Sexual violence, and Stalking

cocpop_reads's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful 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

4.75

This was a book that I could not put down.

This is much darker than the first book and a little more detailed when it comes to the abuse and torture of Ronan’s early years. 

But I fell in love with both Ronan and Sasha, and they are a couple that I just want to stay happy forever. I don’t want any other trauma to touch them because they finally have a home and safe place with one another. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Torture, Child abuse, and Gore

Moderate: Domestic abuse

Minor: Rape

r1vana's review against another edition

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Murder, Gun violence, Cancer, Injury/Injury detail, Stalking, Grief, Drug abuse, Death of parent, Alcohol, Rape, Confinement, Violence, Toxic relationship, Torture, Misogyny, Miscarriage, Medical trauma, and Kidnapping

tempestjones's review against another edition

hopeful sad medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Domestic abuse, Pregnancy, Violence, and Torture

Moderate: Drug use, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual violence, Chronic illness, Sexual harassment, Death of parent, Grief, Infidelity, and Terminal illness

ashleycmms's review

4.0

I did not enjoy this as much as the first book, because it heavily deals with child abuse/trauma (a lot of which is intense psychological, physical, emotional and some moments of sexual as well), sexual abuse (including children), domestic violence, etc. A LOT of this is on page and explicit. The characters are truly both going through A LOT and I’m not a believer in relationships can be salvation, so this book was a little difficult for me. BUT I do see how healthy relationships is something that both characters were SEVERELY lacking and how the introduction of that could change so much for them. That being said, I really loved both characters separately and I enjoyed seeing them being genuinely KIND and patient to/with one another (because they both had little of that in their lives.) I think this is the ONE romance where I would have liked it to be more on page slow burn? Like these people can’t do therapy, but uhhhh something has to give LOL.  

Also, like the consensual sex scenes are all so cold to read? Not intimate at all.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Torture, Child abuse, Child death, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Body horror, Blood, Cancer, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Violence, Pedophilia, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Terminal illness, and Sexism

Moderate: Drug use, Drug abuse, Kidnapping, Rape, Vomit, Pregnancy, and Stalking