Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Crimson River by Devney Perry

15 reviews

abicaro17's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional lighthearted mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Lyla and Vance are adorable. Lyla Eden takes one day off to go for a hike and gets strangled by a stranger in the woods. Vance comes into town to track the stranger after reading the police report and meets Lyla at her coffee shop. She offers to help him as he hunts the man who almost killed her but, their working relationship quickly turns into more. First off, secret hookup is a great trope and I wish it was utilized more often. Second, the tension at the end and their whole relationship was amazing!! My problems with this book stem from the secrets and mysteries surrounding the stranger in the woods. First off, the twist for this was a tad obvious, and second, the whole ending was unsatisfactory and irritating. Do I know that it probably continues in the last book because apparently Vera is who ends up with Mateo? Yeah. Does that make this better? No. Plus Vances whole family thing is basically left on a cliffhanger???

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Grief, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual content, Violence, Animal death, Blood, Gaslighting, Pregnancy, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Body horror, Car accident, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Alcohol, Drug use, Gore, Toxic friendship, Alcoholism, and Physical abuse

savvyrosereads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful lighthearted mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

Rating: 4/5 stars

Lyla Eden is enjoying a rare day off when a violent attack in the wilderness leads to the arrival of Vance Sutter in town…and the kind of romance Lyla assumed wasn’t in her cards.

So many aspects of this book were honestly unhinged, but I had a really fun time reading it! I enjoyed Lyla, and her relationship with Vance was really sweet if a bit predictable. His nickname for her was also my favorite of this series so far.

I also really enjoyed the way the suspense/crime elements of this one took the lead (particularly after they took a backseat in the last couple books), which made this a bit of a change of pace!

And since I know you’re waiting for this, my updated current series rating: JUNIPER HILL > THE EDENS: A LEGACY (short story) > JASPER VALE > CRIMSON RIVER > INDIGO RIDGE > CHRISTMAS IN QUINCY (novella) > GARNET FLATS.

CW: Violence/injury; murder/death/child death; gun violence/police shooting; alcoholism/drug abuse

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Violence, Death, Domestic abuse, Addiction, Drug abuse, and Murder

ecravens's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Death, Gun violence, Abandonment, Sexual content, Body horror, Grief, Violence, Cursing, and Drug abuse

hapalyn's review against another edition

lighthearted mysterious tense medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Murder, and Sexual content

Moderate: Drug abuse, Animal death, Alcoholism, and Blood

Minor: Addiction

kobireads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Physical abuse

sami_leigh's review against another edition

dark funny hopeful mysterious tense medium-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

4.0

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
🌶️🌶️.5/5

From the outside, my life was rock solid. So why couldn’t I shake this unease? This feeling that I was missing something…I was off-kilter and didn’t know how to find steady. 

We were two sides to the same coin. Two people trying to find their way back to centre. 

“I don’t know what to say,”
“You don’t have to say anything. You’re listening.”

🏞️ First person dual POV
🏞️ Fifth in a series following the Edens 
🏞️ Lyla’s life is her job, until the day she is attacked while hiking. Vance’s life is his search for a killer who may just be the same man that attacked Lyla.
🏞️ Forced proximity
🏞️ Mystery
🏞️ All the chemistry 
🏞️ Spice 🥵
🏞️ Nickname
🏞️ Well established secondary characters; Winslow & Griffin (Book 1), Memphis & Knox (Book 2), Talia & Foster (Book 3), Eloise & Jasper (Book 4), Mateo (Book 6), Anne & Harrison (Short story 4.5)
🏞️ MC growth; trauma/past, priorities, self worth, trust.
🏞️ Epilogue 
• MMC’s past/family wasn’t fleshed out much.
• Not sure about how the mystery played out.

With a loving daughter to testify Cormack wouldn’t have been given a huge sentence. Yet he sentenced himself, and the daughter he loves, to a life of running and not living. It doesn’t track when he cared so much for his family. It also doesn’t seem realistic for Lyla to keep this secret. <spoiler\>

⚠️ Parental abandonment, toxic relationships (past), injury/injury detail (moderate), pregnancy, violence/assault (explicit), death.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Violence

Moderate: Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Pregnancy

jamiejanae_6's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Death, Grief, Sexual content, and Child death

Minor: Drug abuse

morriganlefaye's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, and Drug abuse

leahmadison's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, and Sexual content

Moderate: Child death, Drug abuse, Death, and Alcoholism

sydneybouwman's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Drug abuse, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Blood, Death, and Grief