Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Welcome to the Dark Side by Giana Darling

7 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

ednam0dewannabe's review

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, and Cancer

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Death, and Violence

Minor: Kidnapping, Alcohol, and Blood

kodafaith's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? Yes

5.0

I started this series just for this book and OH MY HEART😭 how Gianna Darling makes the things Zeus thinks about Lou not be totally creepy when they should be is beyond me. This book was more emotional than I expected in a lot of ways but wow did I cry!
I love this guardian monster so much and I honestly was do shocked by Loulou’s personality but in a good way. Excited to continue this series but I don’t know if I’ll be able to like any of the books more than this one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Death, Gun violence, Medical content, Murder, Violence, Sexual content, Cancer, Cursing, and Grief

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

cocpop_reads's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful 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? Yes

5.0

Zeus Garro and LouLou have my heart. I loved this book the first time I read it, and I love it even more the second time around.

This is taboo romance. Large age gap, and the FMC is 17. So if any of that is too much, I would not read this book.

I loved Lou from the start. I loved that she pushed herself, and chose to do things for herself. My heart broke for the parents she was given, and it really forced her to grow up fast. I can never say a bad thing about her. I think my favorite relationship besides her and Zeus, was her and Mute. They just had a pure connection, and this book broke me.

And ain’t nobody throwing down quite like Zeus. He was very aware of the optics of his relationship with Lou, but you could tell her never did anything to harm her. He loved his girl from the start, and while that may be off putting to some, their connection just made sense.

5/5 on the spicy scale. The mouth on Zeus, and the fact that Lou was just as dirty as him. My favorite scene will forever be her stripping for him. Just because of the confidence on her, and the determination to get what she wanted.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Blood, Cancer, Classism, Grief, Murder, Torture, and Violence

Minor: Death of parent, Kidnapping, Vomit, and Racial slurs

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

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