Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Den of Vipers by K.A. Knight

101 reviews

izzyf16's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, Murder, and Torture

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Death of parent, and Cancer

roguesaw's review against another edition

challenging dark funny tense fast-paced

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

2.75

This is my first time reading a mafialike book so that maybe be why I feel like this but I feel like Roxy accepted her fate too quickly. Yeah she was fighting back in the beginning but really? A few orgasms and she’s fine with it all? Like it took literally a week. And the guys being like “she’s the hottest thing to walk the planet better not let my dick take over my heart” really didn’t work for me. 
I love the “who did this to you” trope but this was stupid. 
I get that Diesel was crazy, but it made him out to be more childlike. Yes yes it came from trauma, but crazy can be written better. And yeah torture porn is a thing but like chill out dude. 
I normally love banter and quips but there was too much of it and so many things got repeated constantly. This book could have been a lot shorter by taking out half of the rewritten banter. 
Oh and the ending….. like after

getting Garrett back and everyone healing up and having another three sex scenes

I was really expecting the book to end. I understand the scene of

finding her father and killing him

but maybe should have done that earlier. And the

new bars she made in honor of Rich

was nice and sentimental but it just dragged it on. And what was the point of the

five way marriage

? I mean

tying up the judge made me laugh

but if the point was to have her

have their name legally

they own the city and call the shots, plus have said repeatedly that

she’s one of them, she’s part of the family, she’s a viper

so I feel like that was unnecessary and basically filler to an already long book. 
Needless to say, I was hooked and read through this very fast. The sex scenes were very well detailed (even if I didn’t like all of them).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Torture, Blood, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Violence, Gore, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, and Child abuse

kayken24's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

1.0

i could feel myself getting dumber and dumber with every page turn

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Rape, Gore, Death, Alcoholism, Abandonment, Blood, Violence, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Incest, Car accident, and Body horror

molly_davis's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

0.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual content, Torture, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Murder, Kidnapping, Gore, and Blood

Moderate: Body horror, Cursing, Domestic abuse, and Confinement

adalora's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

2.75

This is like a Wattpad book on steroids. It's definitely not realistic in any way and lots of it is uncomfortable to say the least. Therapy is needed. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Blood, Death, Emotional abuse, Murder, Rape, Toxic relationship, Violence, Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Incest, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

slvt4b00ks's review against another edition

I just wanted it to end but there were like 30 more pages of sex scenes and I just couldn’t do it. This book should have only been 300 pages as it only took place within the span of a week. While the author makes a point to have Roxy explicitly say she likes all the abusive and Stockholm syndrome-y shit they do to her, I can’t get past it. It’s one thing to role play and have rough sex, it’s another thing entirely to read about it happening to someone else without them talking about hard and soft limits or safe words. Like are we the reader to assume that Roxy has absolutely no limit for pain as pleasure, or that she just coincidentally met these 4 insane assholes who coincidentally have the same exact kinks as her? I think I would have found it slightly more bearable if the author had one of the guys cross a limit for her and then there were consequences to that and they talked about it. The only person who’s line gets crossed as far as sex is concerned is garret, because he was traumatized by a woman. Roxy was beat by her father and yet these bastards are constantly slamming her up against walls and cutting her and choking her until she can’t breathe. You can’t tell me that wouldn’t have triggered a flashback. You can’t. This is just another instance where women are painted to be objects for a man’s pleasure and never the other way around. I fucking hated this book. I wish I could chuck it at K.A. knights head. For legal reasons that’s a joke but this book sucked. If you have sexual trauma DONT READ IT.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Sexism, Rape, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Cursing, Biphobia, Torture, Stalking, Self harm, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Violence, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Gore, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Death, Alcohol, Misogyny, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, Gun violence, Grief, Gaslighting, Fire/Fire injury, Addiction, and Abandonment

jeanne24's review against another edition

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, and Sexual violence

roosiieebee's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, and Murder

nikica_k's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

1.5

This book was vile. And I absolutely do not mean that in a good way. It happens very rarely that I DNF a book, but in this case, I had to.

I like dark romance if handled well, but this book tried to convince me that the sex was consensual, even though the men explicitly said that they would rape the FMC, if given the chance, to teach her a lesson? Plus the whole thing about them being brothers. I enjoy reverse harem as a trope, but this was too much.
If taken *completely* out of context though, some sex scenes are quite well written, but the dubious consent element ruined it for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Sexual assault and Torture

naaytaashreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny tense medium-paced

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

3.5

“I’m falling in love with you, darling,” I murmur, and she freezes. “Don’t, love has a way of changing to hate,” she whispers”

I gave this a 4 star for smut but 3 stars for plot. Overall, it was entertaining.
This was a thick baby. I didn't know what to expect.
I was like what plotline it's going to give me with 600 pages for a standalone. 
A few chapters in I was like, oh okay, there's little plot in here but a lot of smut, so I accepted it and enjoyed the entertainment of it.

The characters are definitely highlight of the entire show.
All crazy personalities put together, up to no good, lots of fighting, blood, and violence. It was pure chaos. 
All the characters had their fun moments. I enjoyed the banter and teasing we have between Roxy and all the men.
Throughout the plotline, we see a storyline of each character's personality and history. 
They each have their own chemistry with Roxy and how each of their connection is special to them.

I love Diesel. Yes, he is the craziest, but he made everything so fun.
As the story goes, I fall in love with him more and more after each page. 
Kenzo is such a baby sweetheart. I will go to him for some loving and cuddles.
Garrett is a badass too, with such a softie, fluffy heart, honestly.
Ryder, the boss, is such a dad and mom. He takes care of everybody.

I think there is a mix of smut and action.
Although sometimes the plotline makes little sense, where you don't really know what's their main purpose or mission is but the action is so badass and so dramatic, I love it. 
I want a bonus novella or something. 
I want to see them as Dads, please. 


“Vipers never die. Vipers never fall…unless it’s for a tattooed, foul-mouthed bar owner.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Self harm, Torture, Violence, Child abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Blood, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual harassment, Body horror, Car accident, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual violence