Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Den of Vipers by K.A. Knight

118 reviews

purpleyangel's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cursing, Toxic relationship, Torture, Self harm, Domestic abuse, and Death of parent

maskihaan's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny 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

4.0

I absolutely loved this book. 1000% worth the hype. There were a few moments that really pushed past my personal comfort zone and a good number of typos in the book so I’m not going to give it 5 stars but I really loved it otherwise. Roxy is such a badass and I love the growth of all the guys and the way they all compliment each other. I was blown away by some of the timeless wisdom about life woven into the book as well. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, Physical abuse, Sexism, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual violence, Vomit, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual content, Abandonment, Death, Grief, Blood, Confinement, Gore, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Murder, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Addiction, Body horror, and Car accident

tanadeet's review against another edition

challenging dark slow-paced

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

2.0

So. Check your trigger warnings before you decide to pick up this book. I include some below. I would also suggest you check the tropes and themes, just to be sure it's within your reading comfort zone.

Did I enjoy the book? Yes and no. I went into the book not knowing what it was about and with no expectations. In a nutshell, it's a mafia RH, enemies to lovers, finding family story. It sounds so... pretty normal if I put it like that.

Don't expect
* Good or morally grey characters, they're dark to the core 
* Any bad characters converted to becoming good and upstanding citizens
* Romance or respect 

That being said, the storyline intrigued me enough to finish the book but I'll admit, I skimmed over a lot of the chapters.

The plot was soft. The timeline vs how the characters changed towards each other, was unrealistic. There was so much spice, it became boring and just too much. 

It felt as though the author was trying to keep the story alive by drowning readers with spice scene after spice scene, adding some attempted CPR in the form of increased shock value and torture, especially in the sex scenes, hints of brotherly banter and the most cringy pillow talk I've heard in a long time. 

Don't misunderstand me, I don't mind spice, the dark and morally black characters or even the cruelty and darkness(it's supposed to be a mafia story after all), but this story could have been wrapped up in 300 pages instead of over 600. Roxy could have had some more self-respect seeing as she is such a fighter. And be less cringy. And the plot could have had a lot more meat on its bones. 

Maybe the author didn't have intentions of a strong story, maybe her intention was 600 pages of cringy smut and if that's what you're into, you are her target audience and I should have done some research before picking up this book...

🔥Trigger warnings!
* Abduction
* Crude language 
* Sexual abuse
* Physical abuse
* Graphic sex scenes including some kinks which might disturb some readers
* Graphic torture and death scenes
* Pyromania

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Rape, Sexual violence, Blood, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Sexual assault, Violence, Death of parent, Gun violence, Murder, Self harm, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

spearl's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Kidnapping, Murder, Cursing, Gore, Death, Blood, Sexual violence, Sexual content, and Torture

Moderate: Car accident

deedee1990's review

dark 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

3.75

So bad it’s good! Very long and can be a bit repetitive but I couldn’t help but love a few of the characters.. in a f***ed up kinda way 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Blood, Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Car accident, Death of parent, Addiction, and Child abuse

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

amanda_reads13's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

The Vipers run the city. Ryder is the face of the organization, Kenzo runs the casinos, Garrett is the muscle, and Diesel is the psychotic assassin. After her dad gets into debt with the
Vipers, he gives them Roxy as payment. She is then taken and held captive by the Vipers.

Each one of the five of them is broken in some way. Ryder and Kenzo, along with Roxy's fathers were abusive assholes. Garrett hates women because of what his ex did to him. Diesel is traumatized from the death of his mother. The five of them come together to form their own, found family and help to heal each other.

Roxy is truly a badass and hold her own in every situation. She has these men wrapped around her fingers. 

I liked the idea of the multiple POV, but every chapter is written pretty much the same. If the characters name wasn't given at the start of the chapter, I wouldn't have been able to pick out whose POV it was. Considering how different these men are, especially Diesel, you would think that the POV would have reflected them more. 

This book is LONG. Like 200 pages too long. I considered DNFing this book multiple times. 

The best part of the book is when the conflict with the Triads happen. There are some funny moments with Diesel, otherwise there were so many parts that were repetitive and boring. 

Tropes: found family, enemies to lovers
Relationships: reverse harem

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Mental illness, Violence, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Blood, Abandonment, Child abuse, Death of parent, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Torture

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

dakotaelle13's review against another edition

dark emotional funny 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

4.75

superrrr smutty and spicy like in an extreme way but I loved this book. the story entwined with the smut was chefs kiss

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Abandonment, Child abuse, and Death of parent

Minor: Deportation

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