A review by zabeishumanish
Good Gone Bad by Giana Darling

challenging dark emotional 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

2.5

Getting real sick of being told how much someone weighs while they are “soaking wet”. That phrase has been in every damn book so far. Please check trigger warnings. Several aspects of this relationship made me very uncomfortable. A shared history that long with an age gap like the couples starts to feel very “groomer-y”. This is the first book in the series with BDSM and it was not well researched, none of the practices described were particularly safe and there wasn’t enough discussion surround consent to make me comfortable. Still a good story, just hard to manage. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Medical content, Murder, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Violence

By the end of the book so much horrible shit has happened that I literally forgot til writing this review that the book opens with the female MC killing her boyfriend as he tries to r*** her with his gun.