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Carnage by Shantel Tessier

3 reviews

chauntel's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Alcohol, Death of parent, Medical content, Stalking, Grief, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Murder, Sexual violence, Blood, Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Kidnapping, Addiction, Bullying, Car accident, Drug use, Gore, Pregnancy, Abortion, Body horror, Medical trauma, Abandonment, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexual assault, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual harassment, and Gun violence

Moderate: Vomit, Suicide attempt, Torture, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Violence, and Suicidal thoughts

firequeen_ash23's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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

Title: Carnage
Author: Shantel Tessier 
Series: L.O.R.D.S #5
Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
Spice: 🌶🌶🌶🌶

The first book I ever read by Shantel Tessier was The Ritual, and from that moment on, I've been obsessed with her writing, the characters, just this whole series. I've been looking forward to reading Carnage since I read about the spade brothers. And of course, Shantel Tessier DID NOT disappoint with this 5 star read. 

I love that Carnage, like the other books, was filled with mystery. Carnage is riddled with questions, unclear motives, secret agendas by multiple people, some of them unknown, and of course, it's got plenty of villians. I love how each book can be tied together in some way with whether it's the same characters in the same universe, the timeline, or just something that happened in one book but affected others in another book. I couldn't get enough of the darkness in Carnage. It’s raw and gritty, I love it and couldn't help but want more. Shantel is a fantastic smut author! You could forget about the hot and spicy moments in this book, whew 🥵🥵!! I really did enjoy the scenes between Ashytn and Saint, not to mention when Saint let Haiyden and Kashton play, too. The way Saint and Ashytn's owned their toxicity with their selves and with one another was just HOT! I love Saint's depravity. I love Saints' obsession with Ashytn. Yes, he loves her, but he's also obsessed with her to the point it's slightly toxic, but of course, that makes it even hotter! 

I also really loved Haidyen and Kashton, the other Spade brothers, in this book. Haiyden and Kashton, though scary and maybe a little crazy, they're both sexy AF, bad@$$, and killers, but they both care about soft spot for Ashytn, especially Haiyden. 

I really don't think I have one bad thing to say about this book, though I do wish some things would have been a little more fleshed out with better explanations, but I still loved the book. I CAN'T wait for the next Spade brother book. Shantel Tessier has become an autoread author for me with this series. If you haven't read the L.O.R.D.S series, then I highly recommend Carnage and the rest of the L.O.R.D.S series; they're all 5 star reads!  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Violence, Cursing, Death, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Rape, Sexual violence, Grief, Murder, and Torture

Moderate: Grief, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Confinement, Drug use, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, and Sexual assault

Minor: Addiction, Car accident, Alcohol, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy

kaadee'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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

I’m begging and pleading on my knees for one of these girls to run as far away as they can. I was ROOTING for Ash, but that dumb dumb had to get caught. I just want ONE FUCKIN GIRL TO LIVE HER LIFE SAFE AND HAPPY FAR AWAY FROM THESE LORDS.

Also, the plot is so all over the place, last 100 pages never make sense but I stay for the smut.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Abandonment, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Violence, Gaslighting, Grief, Sexual content, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Stalking, Torture, Toxic relationship, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Blood, Death, Medical content, Mental illness, Car accident, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment