Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

Den of Vipers by K.A. Knight

11 reviews

luxenarmy's review against another edition

Very rapey 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

kyra0627's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Murder, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Blood, Child abuse, and 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

courtandcovers's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

Okay, 600 page book without any plot. It's pretty much smut cover to cover. 

The writing isn't great, some of it doesn't make sense. There were sentences and paragraphs I would try to reread trying to make them make sense and still couldn't figure it out.

I almost DNFd 3-4 times in the book, but I heard so many great things I kept gritting through it hoping it would get better. 

Also a few plot holes, there is stuff that just "happens" out of nowhere. The entire last 100 pages or so of the book is content trying to wrap up the story, it feels rushed and just kind of thrown in there. Plus a lot of cringey moments and tons of snake/viper metaphors that are somewhat unnecessary. 

Definitely not my favoutie. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Child abuse, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Body horror, Cancer, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

sydneylive's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Violence

katastrophi's review against another edition

funny slow-paced

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

0.25

I didn't even want it in my read history. But I read it. So here it is. If you find that you must read this book it's best taken in reading out loud with a friend. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Car accident, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Violence, Abandonment, Chronic illness, Confinement, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual harassment, Torture, and War

giannareadsromance's review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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

This book was very good. EXTREMELY VIOLENT AND EXPLICIT however. Definitely heed the content warnings for this, for sure some incredibly hard to read scenes Lots of blood/knife play

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Murder, Death, Confinement, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Violence

kendratalksbooks's review against another edition

dark fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Blood, and Cursing

Moderate: Bullying, Gore, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Physical abuse, and Suicidal thoughts

king_taylor's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad medium-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Murder, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Alcoholism

noraa's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Incest, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Violence