Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Twisted Love by Ana Huang

197 reviews

kcbatts's review against another edition

dark

• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Violence, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Sexual assault

irisvdn's review against another edition

emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.5

Would be 5 stars but I really didn't like the

stalking

at the end

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Infidelity, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Stalking, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

jaz_lai's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, and Murder

alexandramasa's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Death of parent, Murder, and Gaslighting

weekdaygladers's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gaslighting

Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, and Stalking

shellballenger's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

1.75

Type of read: Commuter Read.

What made me pick it up: BookTok made me do it.

Overall rating: Comically horrible. I don't understand what Huang was trying to accomplish with 'Twisted Love.' There's so much going on and so little actual substance. 

If you're looking for...
-A man who has a taste for vengeance. 
-A woman with a messed up past who sees everything through rose-colored glasses.
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Dead

families.
-An uncle with a thick, Eastern European accent.
-A best friend

who is a princess.

-A

stalker

ex-boyfriend.
-Suppressed memories and a broken family.
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Paternity gone wrong.

-One of the weakest enemies to lovers I've ever read. 
-Random swimming lessons.
-A mysterious man who has all of the connections, funds, and intelligence -

oh yeah, and he's had it since he was a preteen when he created his company and just willy-nilly handed it over to his uncle (yeah, that one with the accent) for safe keeping until he "came of age."

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Tax evasion and corporate fraud.

-Spicy scenes you're supposed to believe are not vanilla.

Alex has absolutely nothing on the Bat Boys - I would go so far as to say the scene in ACOFAS is spicier, or at least much more awkward to read than anything Alex and Ava do.

-A MMC with highly superior autobiographical memory aka REMEMBERS EVERYTHING and a FMC that doesn't remember anything from her childhood.
-Not-so-secret martial arts skills.

...then be my guest and waste a few days of your life with 'Twisted Love.' It's binge-able, mainly because it's so comically bad. It feels like Huang took all of the ideas they ever had for a book and put it into this single storyline, not caring if it actually made sense or just possibly sounded the teeny tiniest bit cool.

Reader's Note:  'Twisted Love' includes themes of sex, death, torture, attempted murder, drowning, kidnapping, stalking, and illegal activity.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Stalking, Death of parent, and Murder

thebookaddict's review against another edition

adventurous dark inspiring reflective sad 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? Yes

4.0

Ik hoorde verschillende gemixte reviews over dit boek, dus ik was zelf wat terughoudend om hem te lezen.  Ik ben blij dat ik het toch gedaan heb. Alex is een typische bad guy en doet inderdaad dingen die niet bij zijn IQ passen (maar doet niet iedereen dat?) Ook is hij inderdaad jaloers en best hardhandig, maar ik vind dat in boeken juist leuk. 

Ava is het tegenovergestelde van Alex en dat maakt het juist een goede romance. De bijnaam Sunshine past echt bij haar! 

Ik ben van mening dat er soms wel gaten zaten in het verhaal.

ineens is ze gekidnapt en uit het niets is er een bal waar ze geen gaat en hij is daar ook

. Sommige dingen komen een beetje uit de lucht vallen. Een pov vooraf wat het een beetje Inleid vind ik altijd fijner. Er zijn ook een aantal bijpersonen die niets toevoegen, maar daar stoor ik me nooit zo aan. Het zijn niet voor niets bijpersonen. Al met al heb ik genoten van dit boek en ik ga nu zeker de hele serie lezen!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

adrijagd's review against another edition

dark emotional funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Panic attacks/disorders, and Abandonment

Minor: Kidnapping, Murder, and Gaslighting

reminiscences's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Blood, Murder, and Gaslighting

ga_bby4's review against another edition

dark emotional funny 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse, Violence, and Kidnapping

Minor: Child death