Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

Welcome to the Dark Side by Giana Darling

10 reviews

isajidy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Chronic illness, and Cursing

Moderate: Murder, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Grief, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, and Gun violence

sdhavel's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness and Adult/minor relationship

mrodriguez1738's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Gun violence, Cancer, and Death

bookishbabbles's review against another edition

dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

I can’t believe I actually finished this book! This book was so hard to finish because of it’s dark themes. First, this book features Pedophilia!  This book is about grooming and child molestors. I went into it thinking that it would be a traditional age gap but it is not. The characters first meet when the girl was 7!!!! I like dark books but this is just way too much. The male character gets off on the fact that the girl is an underage child. She does all the little girl things such as “sucking on a Lollipop” which is constantly brought up. During sex, the male character calls her “little girl” and that I could not stomach. He is very clear that he’s “loved her since they met” when she was 7! Mind you, when they finally get together the girl is still 17. I don’t shame anyone but I cannot stomach this kind of thing. I couldn’t  think of these scenes as “sexy” they just made my stomach turn. Would not recommend unless you are truly into “Dark and Twisted” romance, not just getting into it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, and Excrement

Moderate: Kidnapping, Rape, Toxic relationship, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

maryyylorraine's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Cancer, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Chronic illness, Death, Abandonment, and Adult/minor relationship

charm0nix's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Gun violence, and Cancer

Moderate: Death, Child abuse, and Chronic illness

Minor: Kidnapping

zabeishumanish's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad 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

3.0

I had to skip most of the sex scenes. I love a good forbidden romance, but this was too much, like terrifyingly too much.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Death of parent, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Body horror, Chronic illness, Cursing, Drug use, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Sexual content, Terminal illness, and Violence

Minor: Racism and Pregnancy

laurbooks's review against another edition

Just ew. I tried to get through it thinking it would be kinda spicy but turns out it just feels like a pedophile with a little girl kink.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness and Murder

mrx99's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

I started the first book of the series but couldn’t bring myself to read more than the first two chapters. But everyone kept raging about this book so I read it and I was not disappointed. This book was so good. Liked the storyline liked the characters. 

Zeus and lous relationship was cute and hot and just everything. The age gap sometimes made me a little uncomfortable because he said that he knew she was hers since she was seven so I thought oookay but it’s a book it’s fiction so yeah.
But I was not ready for the fucking heartbreak. Since the first Moment Mute was my absolute favourite and I was so excited for his book and then he fucking died.. what the fuck ? Not okay. Literally threw my book across the room.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Violence, and Vomit

nini2622's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Torture, Death, Blood, Gun violence, Violence, and Chronic illness

Minor: Death of parent and Kidnapping