Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Twisted Emotions by Cora Reilly

52 reviews

threeundertwopnw's review against another edition

dark sad slow-paced

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

3.0

If you're going to mention 20 times that he takes her pulse with his thumb, you should maybe double- check because that's impossible. The thumb has its own pulse. I rolled my eyes every time. 

Not much plot, just a very slow burn during which she somehow cures his neurodivergence. Nothing believable. Lots of repetition and filler and some very stilted dialog that nobody would actually say. There are some weird sections where none of the characters use contractions. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Sexual violence, Torture, Addiction, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Pedophilia, Self harm, Sexual content, Slavery, Blood, Bullying, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Gore, Homophobia, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Trafficking, and Violence

alexandramar1e's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, and Murder

Minor: Drug abuse

elllzzaa's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content, Rape, Pedophilia, Child abuse, Misogyny, Blood, Suicide attempt, Torture, and Sexism

arwenaardbeienstruik's review against another edition

fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Physical abuse, Torture, Child abuse, and Death

sophie_69's review against another edition

2.0

idk why I read this

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

zchauds's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Sexual assault

drishthings's review against another edition

4.0

i didnt like how they treated women 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Child abuse, and Panic attacks/disorders

kjenae's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative 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

5.0

This is the only book I've re-read. It will always have a special place in my heart. Nino and Kiara have one of the most healthy mafia relationships ever, and it's so refreshing. I absolutely adore them both and would do anything for them. One of my favorite book couples even a year after reading it for the first time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Child abuse, and Physical abuse

alliebooks_'s review against another edition

dark hopeful slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Child abuse and Rape

Minor: Emotional abuse

r1vana's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense fast-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

4.0

Arranged marriage trope.

When two broken souls meet.

The first 10% was a bit slow but the moment I finished it, I wished there was more of Nino and Kiara.

There are terms that I wish were used differently. 

The one thing I don’t like about this book is how they are degrading women and shaming women… it’s a big ick.

I wasn’t expecting to like Nino and see him understand Kiara, respecting and communicating about their boundaries and such… is nouvelle.

Funnily, seeing Nino being all softy towards Kiara was kinda weird since he was known as a ruthless and heartless man ( doesn’t mean I don’t like it).

The way he always feels her pulse on her wrist to know what Kiara was feeling: nervous; scared; prettified; happy, et cetera.

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"You are too beautiful to lurk in the

shadows."

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The angst tho: whenever Nino tells kisra that he can stimulate  affection/ tenderness/love… something the pains her and doesn’t want to see it:

“Could you love someone who didn't have

emotions? 

Someone who analyzed love as if it were a mathematical problem?

It wasn't a question that needed answering.

I knew the answer.

I loved Nino, even if he could never love me

back.”

But at the end they do have their HEA. Wished there was a epilogue;

"Before you, there was calm. There

was order and logic."

"And now?"

"Now…. Twisted. Nowthere's chaos"

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"I do, with my fucking dead heart. With every fucking fiber of my being.”

"I love you. For real. No simulated affection or love ever again, because with you, I don't need to simulate. You dragged that dead part of me out of the past and revived it. I didn't die fifteen years ago, but I didn't live either... 

until you."

TW: sexual assault; trauma; torture; death; child abuse; gun violence

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Blood, Misogyny, Rape, Child abuse, Murder, Torture, Violence, Sexual content, and Panic attacks/disorders