Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Does It Hurt? by H.D. Carlton

126 reviews

lauralovebugg's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse, Incest, and Rape

Minor: Death

babygyalreadit's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Child abuse and Sexual assault

chekwube's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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

3.25

This book wasn’t horrible but also was not my favorite in the whole world. I definitely don’t like the enemies to lovers trope (especially in like a toxic kind of way) so if you also don’t and you prefer a much more romantic type of thing, this may not be your vibe. Even though the book did eventually get there, I could never get over some things like

baiting the sharks with her bloody lip while drowning her

Don’t get me wrong, I love the rough kind of love with a little bit of jeering but this book did it a lot. Also, I think another problem I had with this book was that Sawyer had little to no will power against Enzo. And the author tried to find a balance by trying to make it the same vice versa but it wasn’t equal at all. So I don’t know, it felt super abusive which leads me to distrust men. This book for sure wasn’t my style, but it wasn’t a horrible book. I definitely enjoyed it better when the plot thickened to unravel the thriller part of things.

Kacey and her stitched mouth was the biggest surprise of the book it wasn’t a horrible book. I definitely enjoyed it better when the plot thickened to unravel the thriller part of things.

Kacey and her stitched mouth was the biggest surprise of the book

. The author ate with that plot for reallll. And I think that bit really had a lot of development and build up. It didn’t blow my mind but I was shocked.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Blood, Murder, and Abandonment

bedtimesandbooks's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Incest, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

mmathis15's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Death of parent, and Murder

librariamortis's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Xenophobia, and Murder

Moderate: Body horror, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Violence

illuminatedspace's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

3.0

The spicy scenes are fairly spicy but the darkness of the romance motivates the hero to do something pretty unforgivable at the beginning and I'm not sure he's really forgivable by the end. The non-spice plot also takes an icky turn in the last quarter. I guess it was actually a little too dark for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Suicide, Torture, Blood, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Incest, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

stardroprae's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, and Kidnapping

Minor: Child abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Rape, and Sexual assault

etdavenport's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

0.25

ABUSIVE👏🏼 IS 👏🏼NOT 👏🏼ROMANTIC

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Incest, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape

bronzestars's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

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

1.5

I was really disappointed by this book. I heard so many good things about it from booktok. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not trying to “yuck” somebody’s “yum”, but it just wasn’t very good. It seems like Sawyer and Enzo were kind of forced together at first. There’s not much of a build. They just kind of find each other and are instantly having sex. The spice isn’t necessarily bad, as a matter of fact, I thought it was really good until it’s contextualized. It’s almost like CNC without the C part. Towards the end it got a bit more interesting but it only lasted a little while before falling short again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail