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Placeres violentos

Chloe Gong

3.87 AVERAGE


EDIT:
Monkey covering eyes emoji. I read the wrong book of the same title. Luckily I never talk at book club anyways. But damn was that a fumble. I read this book for nothing!


Tell me why my LGBT+ book club of adults read this book?? Yeah there is a character who is transgender for about two paragraphs, and a suggested gay romance in the background, but this is a straight love story!! I don't read straight love stories!! :/

Story is just okay, but narrator is horrible 
tense slow-paced
Loveable characters: Complicated

coconutsharks87's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 13%

Wasn’t keeping my attention 
adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
challenging dark tense slow-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: Yes
adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-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: No
adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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: No

2.5 Not a lot of action and not much chemistry between Roma and Juliette sadly (they were also rather unlikeable), but I loved Benedikt and Marshall.

“I was raised in hatred, Roma. I could never be your lover, only your killer.”