Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Into The Dark by Dana Isaly

18 reviews

nelumboreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

4.0

P.S : get your comfort reads on standby.

It was dark, vantablack dark at that.
So disturbing yet I was unable to put this down.
Tho I need to constantly remind myself that all the kinky (it's the only word I could say without losing it) stuff was rather consensual..
Dana keeps pushing my boundaries with her stories and characters so I would strongly recommend to not go blind into this.
Pace was just perfect not too boring not a insta as well, and it was the best damn emotionally wrecking conclusion I could ask for, it was beautiful.

~ love is love is love <3

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Incest, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Stalking, Murder, and Sexual harassment

litandlayne's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

3.0

This is not a romance! This is dark fiction, not even close to a romance novel. There is no HEA or HFN. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Torture

Moderate: Murder

docb's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Incest, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Don’t fucking read this book unless you’re into really dark, toxic, trauma bonded characters.

miabooksx3's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Murder, and Sexual harassment

kaileyy's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

keaobaka's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

2.0

**read the triggers**

Ive read a number of dark romance books but I felt that some parts of the book were just too descriptive for my liking and made me very uncomfortable. There were moments where I had to skip chapter because I just couldn’t stomach the descriptions. Some of the sexual scenes were just straight up weird, but who am I to kink shame.

It definitely got better towards because I felt more connected to the characters and felt very sympathetic when they died

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, and Stalking

Moderate: Mental illness

xismax's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Stalking, and Death of parent

anger566's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

1.25

Definitely read the trigger warnings before starting this book because I was SHOCKED at some of the content. Like I'm an avid thriller/horror reader so I'm used to potentially triggering content but this was too much for me. Like to the point where I didn't even enjoy the romance bits because I was still reeling from some scenes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Incest, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Murder

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Suicide, Blood, Stalking, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Minor: Confinement, Gun violence, and Alcohol

So, the main character is a serial killer so be prepared for everything that comes along with that (murder, blood, torture, death, etc). Also it's romance/erotic so sexual scenes are described in detail.

Both of the main characters were sexually assaulted as children. The MMC (serial killer) was raped by his mother throughout childhood (he kills women who look like her; it's implied she's the reason he starts killing). These scenes are described in detail (multiple times) which can be very triggering. FMC murders an ex-boyfriend which is described in detail with lots of blood. MMC tortures FMC with a weapon. MMC is shot and killed, as a result FMC takes her own life at the end of the book.