Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Lovely Bad Things by Trisha Wolfe

22 reviews

torilynn400's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Death, Violence, Cursing, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gore, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Body horror, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Miscarriage

angellike333's review

adventurous challenging dark informative tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Miscarriage, Gore, Cursing, Mental illness, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Blood, Gun violence, Gaslighting, Torture, Murder, Violence, Body horror, Car accident, Panic attacks/disorders, and Alcohol

ali_sun's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Grief, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Miscarriage, Murder, Violence, Body horror, Car accident, Child death, Cursing, and Mental illness

pegloumor's review

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Kidnapping, Death, Violence, Toxic relationship, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, Forced institutionalization, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, and Death of parent

Minor: Cursing

larosamorada's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Violence

Moderate: Body horror

ahrya's review

dark fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence

samflowerv6's review

dark emotional informative mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.5

Kallum Locke….. lord have mercy. This man is insane and ya know what? I ate up every second of it. He was a little scary but I loved it!! Am I insane for enjoying this? Maybe. I blame the wattpad books I read in middle school for my occasionally depraved taste. TRISHA YOU FED US DARK ROMANCE GIRLIES. The part that really sucked me in…. The plot is so interesting. I’m actually so excited for the second book!! Kallum is insane, obsessed with the FMC, smart and cunning. He was a philosopher professor before he was committed into an insane asylum.. he calls her things like little Halen, his muse and sweetness. THE TWISTS HAD ME BY MY THROAT !! And the ritual scene broke my brain in the best way…. I love love love love Hollow’s row and my insane book boyfriend Professor Locke. He’s not even morally grey, he’s pitch black and I’m down.

But what is art and beauty if not pain? Anything which comes too easily is an insult to both the creator and the consumer. 

“I will make you see god for damn sure.”

My fingertips memorize the erratic beat of her pulse as she slips away. Bah-dah-bump. Bah-dah-bah-dah-bump. I want to carve it in my skin.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Death, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Torture, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Violence

Moderate: Medical trauma and Child death

mae_dexter_author's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual content, Murder, and Mental illness

Moderate: Animal death and Car accident

Minor: Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Death, and Miscarriage

kshertz's review

challenging dark medium-paced

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

3.75

Some books you read to find out what you’re into…some books help you find out what you are not into. Sociopaths and detectives are not a trope I can get behind. It’s so toxic and this man does not have a single redeeming quality. His obsession with pain and fear just grossed me out so it was hard to stay in the story. I just wanted everyone to get away from this main character. I can’t root for a sociopath, much different from a villain or a person who’s been harmed and appears grumpy. But to each their own!

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Content Warnings

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Murder, Violence, Abandonment, Animal death, Body horror, Car accident, Death, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Blood, Gore, and Grief

bethjuliette's review

dark mysterious tense fast-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

4.5

This was a recommendation from booktok for me - a snippet of just one of the first sexually tense scenes. They failed to mention the ritual sacrifices and incredible depth into philosophy, but my GOD that made this all the more incredible for me,

I like reading crime novels, I often find myself figuring them out as I go but this one had me doubting myself and distracting me with Kallum’s character just as he was distracting Halen and manipulating her. The author almost had me thinking I had been wrong…

until that last chapter revealed what I’d suspected.

I’ll say no more, but as a lover of dark fiction this is absolutely a must read - I’ll be reading that sequel ASAP! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Toxic relationship, and Sexual content

Minor: Sexual assault

In the real world some scenes would be considered to be extremely dubious consent