Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Does It Hurt? by H.D. Carlton

99 reviews

pana's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Child death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Murder, Blood, Gun violence, Incest, Gaslighting, Body horror, Panic attacks/disorders, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Child abuse, Confinement, and Rape

rza1002's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Incest, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Violence, Blood, Cursing, Torture, Bullying, Child abuse, and Mental illness

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Slavery, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, and Death of parent

icieri's review against another edition

medium-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

1.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Mental illness, Sexual content, Car accident, Kidnapping, Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, and Sexual violence

beccacantread's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

2.0

Oh my god does this bitch have Stockholm syndrome?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, Murder, Incest, Rape, Blood, Suicide, Sexual violence, Death, Violence, Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, and Emotional abuse

hq_reads's review against another edition

challenging 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? No

2.0

I really wanted to enjoy this as I enjoyed the Haunting of Adeline duology by the same author but I just couldn’t. I didn’t like Sawyer or Enzo and despite me being intrigued by the “ghost in chains” storyline, everything else was just bad. 

The spicy scenes were not hot. At all. Why does he keep hooking his fingers over her bottom teeth and dragging her about like that?!?! Why does he “grab her jowls”??? JOWLS! So unflattering 😂 This book also romanticises abusive behaviour and sexual assault. 

The sex scene on the boat with the sharks was rape. Literally rape. And  I know he apologises for it eventually, but they don’t call it like it is. Plus she continues to be attracted to him before he apologises and acknowledges it was wrong.

I appreciate there were trigger warnings, but I didn’t enjoy the romanticising of Enzo’s behaviour.

The ghost storyline reveal was what I thought, but the details were horrific. I think HD Carlton is excellent at writing horror/thrillers. I genuinely felt the tension and fear at moments. I genuinely believe that if this were just a thriller and not an erotic romance I would have enjoyed the book so much better!! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Sexual content, Rape, Body horror, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Blood, Confinement, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Incest, Death, Mental illness, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Alcohol

batesbreanna0's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Suicidal thoughts, Gore, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Blood, Pedophilia, and Murder

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

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

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

Moderate: Sexual violence, Incest, and Sexual assault

blondebookishbabe's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Murder, Rape, Sexual violence, Blood, Cursing, Grief, Incest, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Death of parent, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, and Violence