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Den of Vipers by K.A. Knight

41 reviews

zwe's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

3.0

A solid 3 because the writing was not great and some parts I only got thru by skimming (but they're also British which made the weirdness less weird somehow). The writing was just... honestly downright awful at points and it got a bit cringy at some parts too. Buttttttttttttt the sex was hot so it gets a few points for that. 14 year old me would've loved this book idk what that says about me but. it was enjoyable enough and pretty hot. In my mind Roxy would end up with Diesel if she ever settled down with one of them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Child abuse, Blood, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Gore, Abandonment, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Violence, Death, and Mental illness

Moderate: Alcohol, Car accident, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Grief, Physical abuse, and Addiction

circus_of_damned's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad 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

3.0

Right off it needs to be stated this book has flaws and is far from a perfect book. With that covered personally this book is deep in my trash pocket. This is a Dark Romance and has a plethora of triggers. To name a few being domestic violence, death of a parent, child abuse, and substance abuse. With that let get into the story itself. The first fifty pages are very rough to get through. First there Roxy who the poster child for not like other girls energy. All four men are very rough to stomach esspecially with there interactions with Roxy. After that for me the book greatly improves. That improvement was because the characters emotionally open up and the relationship developed. All four men won me over being emotionally vulnerable and sharing there feeling and past. Those emotional moments and scenes won me over more then the spicy scenes in this book. That was got this book into my feels. Now the book has a lot of spicy and that spicyness is very dark and might not be for everyone. For me Garrett stole my heart in this book because he a big gruff guy but with a soft heart. After Garrett it goes Diesel, Ryder, and Kenzo. The writing of this book isn't great esspecially cause there are typos and the author would use wrong characters names when there supose to be somewhere else in the scene. Or the scene is disjointed because of writing or doesn't make sense. This book has flaws, but it did get in my trsh pocket feels and i did really enjoy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Death of parent, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Alcoholism

ky001113's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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

5.0

This book is intensely dark and not for the faint of heart. It has some of the darkest themes I have seen in a book in a long time. Please please read the content warnings and make sure this is a book for you.

But overall, this book is very well written with an interesting plot and constantly evolving characters!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Death of parent, Gore, Physical abuse, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Grief, Murder, Self harm, Sexual violence, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Alcoholism, Cursing, Torture, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexism, Drug use, Mental illness, Drug abuse, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Deportation, Incest, Infidelity, Addiction, Cancer, Pedophilia, Rape, and Vomit

unicornofthesea's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Torture

Moderate: Car accident, Addiction, Grief, Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Cancer, Confinement, Death of parent, Drug use, and Fire/Fire injury

queen_of_myself's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny 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

5.0

SOOO GOOD. Loved this book. Definitely for people comfortable with frequent sex and dark themes. Read the trigger warnings, but 10/10 recommend. My new favourite standalone. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Grief, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Sexual violence, Torture, Blood, Cursing, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Kidnapping

akeivens's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, and Alcoholism

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

addyu17's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.75

This book was definitely not what I expected. It was a lot happening within the span of like a week. I didn’t realize this until over half way through the book. I thought this was a few months maybe, but no this was like a week. maybe two. I liked it other than that, a lot of romance and different things like that. Some of the kinky stuff I’m not really a fan of reading about, but it was a wide variety of that. I think there’s a bit of everything in this book for romance readers all around.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Blood, Car accident, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Alcoholism, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Trafficking

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

golden_like_dior's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Vomit, Abandonment, Addiction, Blood, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Stalking, Terminal illness, Alcohol, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Violence, Alcoholism, Gun violence, Hate crime, Lesbophobia, and Torture