Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

The Alchemy Of Moonlight by David Ferraro

3 reviews

q_bert13's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

Interesting read, drags a bit towards the end. Some obvious ‘secrets’ are revealed, with more surprising ones later. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Animal death, Body horror, Homophobia, and Violence

Moderate: Misogyny, Death of parent, Medical content, Sexism, Outing, and Medical trauma

Minor: Forced institutionalization, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, and Torture

leedolee's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

A fast-paced read that kept you on your toes and didn't keep you waiting too long for the story to progress. Definitely a lot more intense when it came to the violence and gore elements so that's my only warning to future readers. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Murder, Torture, Violence, Grief, Blood, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Physical abuse, Medical content, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

20sidedbi's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

I found the main character fairly unbelievable... A book nerd who couldn't figure out he was living with

werewolves

? And I'm not sure I totally followed a love interest's

redemption arc

.
The last couple chapters of this book bumped it up from a 2 to a 3⭐ for me. It's really cool to see an ending with

polyamory as the solution to a love triangle

! And the narrative really picked up in the last part of the book. Honestly, if the MC were better developed and the one love interest not so villainous at the beginning, it would have been really good.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, Gore, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Violence, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

Horror