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Den of Vipers by K.A. Knight

287 reviews

amateur_bookworm's review against another edition

dark 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

3.75

My summary: 
Diesel, Ryder, Garrett, and Kenzo are The Vipers. Ryder is the front man and face of their legitimate and illegitimate companies. Garrett is the enforcer. Kenzo is the bookie. And Diesel is the assassin. They are ruthless, brutal, and sexy as hell. They run this city and nobody crosses them. When Rob racks up a debt to them that he can’t pay, he offers to sell his daughter, Roxxane, to them to cover it. Roxy has been on her own since she was 17 and is now 24–and a total badass. She owns Roxers, a dive bar in town. When the Vipers come to collect her, she knows she has no way of getting away from them. But as infuriated as Roxy is by being taken as property, she soon can’t help but be attracted to her captors. And once she realizes they’re all broken in their own way, they all find ways to help each other heal. 

My thoughts: 

If you’re going to read this book, you’re going to have to get really cool about a bunch of stuff really quickly. I imagine there is a niche for this book, however, it is not exactly *my* niche. 

I saw an out of context, smutty quote on Bookstagram and immediately downloaded it from Kindle Unlimited. And, wow, let me tell you, I did not have any idea of exactly what I was diving into with this one. 

This is a VERY dark mafia romance. The content is, well, a lot. The list of trigger warnings is very long for this book. I highly suggest anyone look through all of them before reading this book. It has tons of smut, a lot of violence, and some plot. 

I feel like I should be disgusted by this book, and I somewhat am, but I also could not stop flying through the pages. Some (most?) parts were just gross, and I don’t see how even a contortionist could’ve made some of these scenes possible, and some was just too over the top for me. “Why choose” has never been my favorite trope but this isn’t the worst that I’ve read. 

I’m actually more concerned that I’m not more concerned about this book. I absolutely do not recommend this for most people, but if this is your thing, then definitely have at it and enjoy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Vomit, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Child abuse, Cursing, Sexual content, Car accident, Torture, Gore, Murder, Physical abuse, Gun violence, Blood, Confinement, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual violence, and Slavery

shellind75's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-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? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, Torture, Violence, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Misogyny, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Sexism, Mental illness, Rape, Self harm, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, and Grief

Moderate: Incest

flora_fcrp's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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

The book was great.
A perfect example of men that we love in book but not in real life !

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Cursing, Toxic relationship, Murder, Physical abuse, Confinement, Blood, Body horror, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Gun violence, and Gore

Minor: Sexual assault, Stalking, Panic attacks/disorders, Fire/Fire injury, Mass/school shootings, Grief, Cancer, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Rape, Self harm, Trafficking, and Alcohol

kmad16's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Murder, Racism, Sexual violence, Violence, Toxic relationship, Rape, Kidnapping, and Physical abuse

bec_97's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Murder, Sexual content, and Gun violence

Moderate: Sexual violence

rosieraggz's review against another edition

dark funny tense medium-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, Gore, Cursing, Gun violence, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Death, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Torture, and Physical abuse

beckyremillard's review against another edition

dark tense medium-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

This book is definitely dark - read trigger warnings. 

I have mixed feelings. Overall I think I liked it? Definitely dark and definitely dragged on in parts, but I’ll give it 4/5 stars. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual content, Child abuse, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, Suicide, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, and Gun violence

bexxii00's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Drug use, Addiction, Blood, Death, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual content, Physical abuse, Rape, and Self harm

katreads6's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

1.0

There were parts where I  enjoyed this book but it definitely dragged on. Super spicy parts, I really love spicy books but it felt like that’s all the book was - to the point I’d skim through it. It was repetitive and every chapter (I think there was like 70 chapters) had a spicy scene that was the same as the last time she slept with that person. Jen I was halfway through and saw it was only A WEEK she’s been there… and she’s loving them? Please. Roxy bothered me a lot. She was really irritating and cringey, the best way I could describe it was she had the pick me energy and it was annoying. Ryder was definitely my number one but everytime I got to his POV it was like 5 minutes long and everyone else’s was like 15-20. As much as I LOVE a spicy, f’ed up dark romance, I almost looked forward to parts where they were just existing and having fun together and for once NOT having sex. I truly don’t know how I made it through this book I remember towards the end I was rolling my eyes and huffing and puffing because there was still like 80 pages to go. I wanted to DNF it but I was so close to the end I sucked it up and I’m mad I spent my time reading this book. It was on my TBR for awhile and I kinda wish I kept it there lol. It also didn’t need to be this long of a book… it felt like writing a paper and having to reach a certain character limit because it was repetitive. Ugh honestly save your time and sanity and don’t read this, or do but the reviews mentioning the same things were right and I wish I read them before hand. So if you read it, good luck

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Cursing, Murder, Body horror, Gore, Gun violence, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual violence, Torture, and Violence

serenityxnicole's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

2.5

Poorly paced. Everything was way too fast. Spicey scenes were good, but the overall plot and world building was poorly done. I loved the vipers, each male character was amazingly written, but I couldn’t stand the FMC. Her dialogue was cringey at times. Felt like the book was longer than it needed to be. But the action was fantastic, the male characters were great, and the spice scenes were 🔥

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Violence, Alcohol, Blood, Death, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, and Torture