Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

The Sinner by Shantel Tessier

80 reviews

witten82's review against another edition

challenging dark informative slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

kelabr8's review

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug use, Gun violence, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, and Abandonment

em_fyre's review

dark medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Incest, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Blood, Kidnapping, and Murder

feminist_icon_888's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

The Sinner is a wild erotic ride that isn’t for the faint of heart.

Let’s be honest, plot flow & writing quality aren’t Shantel’s best traits, don’t expect it coming into this or ANY LORDs book.

Heavy on the abuse and trauma Elli has suffered, there is a lot of pain in this book and a lot of moments where you want to hate the MMC (Sin), but you find reasons just like Elli that you can’t let him go (namely his pierced hoo-ha).

The trigger warnings on this read shouldn’t be taken lightly. The sinner is (as per the LORDs series) a twisted journey further into the world of the LORDs and the ending (as per Shantel’s style) continued to throw you right up to the epilogue. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

the_pudster's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, and Gaslighting

kimreads2022's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

𝕀 𝕨𝕒𝕟𝕥 𝕥𝕠𝕩𝕚𝕔. 𝕀 𝕨𝕒𝕟𝕥 𝕞𝕒𝕕𝕟𝕖𝕤𝕤. 𝕀 𝕨𝕒𝕟𝕥 𝕤𝕠𝕞𝕖𝕠𝕟𝕖 𝕨𝕙𝕠 𝕞𝕒𝕜𝕖𝕤 𝕞𝕖 𝕢𝕦𝕖𝕤𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝕞𝕪 𝕤𝕒𝕟𝕚𝕥𝕪

Genre-Dark Romance 

Series- The L.O.R.D.S. Series Book 2 

🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

You will like this one if you love the tropes 

🖤Anti hero male lead 

🖤Enemies to lovers 

🖤Mafia/organized crime 

🖤Secrets and betrayals 

🖤Forbidden romance 

🖤Dark/gritty atmosphere 

🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

My Review 

This book was so dark. If you made it through the first book you know how dark they are but I felt this one was darker. I couldn’t help but love Sin even though he did some crazy stuff and I shouldn’t lol This series reminds me a lot of the movie The Skulls. They’re in college and a secret society that they’re initiated into gets away with crimes including murder. The only difference is the amount of smut.  This is along the same darkness as haunting Adeline so if you couldn’t read that duet I don’t recommend this one. However the twists were pretty good. I wasn’t expecting the betrayals when they happened at all so my jaw dropped. Shantel definitely kept me on my toes with this one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Pregnancy

paoitz's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Abandonment

morgiebee303's review

dark mysterious tense fast-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? Yes

3.5

This book was thrilling to say the least. More triggering than the ritual but also filled with more plot twists. I thoroughly enjoyed this dark read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

snowflake_20's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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? Yes

5.0

My number 1 🩷

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

elinandi's review against another edition

dark emotional tense

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, and Death of parent