Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Crimson River by Devney Perry

23 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

megbert581's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.75

Loved the mystery, small town Montana setting, and continuation of the Eden family story. Could have done with more character development and a smidge less sex (it felt like this was most of their relationship and I just wanted more of the other elements). Still a very fast paced, enjoyable, formulaic/comfort romance read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Gun violence

Minor: Mass/school shootings

fiwwa's review against another edition

emotional funny 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

4.25

i gotta be honest, from the blurb i thought lyla was going to fall for the criminal but i'm glad i was wrong. anyways okay wow this one's probably my second favorite plot wise because that twist!! did i know something would happen since devney perry has the same plot pattern for every book? yes. did i devour it anyway? also yes. the mystery genre made this one similar to indigo ridge, but this hits a little harder. the romance wasn't really dominant and it was kinda insta-lovey. lyla and vance's relationship could have more time for development instead of just, uh, having sex. plus i noticed another repetitive thing in the series: the not-Eden characters have families that are the opposite of the Edens—either dead, cut off, abandoned...  we need a more diverse character background please! overall it was an enjoyable read and i still love the characters, vance just fits my bearded fictional man who loves nature type.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Drug abuse, Alcoholism, and Murder

Minor: Pregnancy

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

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

sleeping_unicorn's review against another edition

emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Death of parent, Death, Addiction, Alcohol, and Child death

kenziewol's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Gun violence, Child death, Death, Murder, Sexual content, and Violence

Minor: Domestic abuse and Toxic relationship

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