Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Sinner by Sierra Simone

15 reviews

tierraskye's review against another edition

fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Sexual content, and Grief

kelisabeth's review against another edition

challenging emotional medium-paced

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

3.0

As a deep and profound book about religion in the face of grief- 4.0
As a sexy book- 2.0

I don't usually write in an actual review but I felt it necessary to add that I did not think the age-gap was handled well, and also the sex scenes were often awkward. I was bawling by the end though so the emotion I felt brought the rating up significantly.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Biphobia, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Pedophilia, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

ga_bby4's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Child death and Suicide

Minor: Sexual assault

justinekorson's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I cried reading this book, which I really didn't expect especially seeing how the first book Priest went. The scene was the one near the end when Tyler looks at Sean and asks, "Did you feel it too?" as they're crying. I cried with them because it was such a beautiful scene and because I obviously very much loved Tyler and grew to lvoe Sean because of this story. I'm excited to read the next one and figure out what happened between Aiden and Elijah!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Death of parent

notamouse's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.25

🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Pedophilia, Racism, Terminal illness, Grief, and Death of parent

careliza's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

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

4.0

Honestly I love Sierra Simone’s books. I love how much depth the characters have, despite the book being labeled as erotica. I’m not usually someone who likes dark books, but I related to

watching someone you love die of cancer. However, I am sad that the two women in the family have now passed away. The mom really had a tragic life, with her young daughter dying of suicide which she was still grieving in “Priest,” and then being diagnosed and passing away from cancer. I did find it odd that we didn’t hear much about the work project that started all of this to begin with. I understand that there were enough other obstacles, so the FMC and MMC did not need to fight about the monastery, but I thought this would come into play much more than it did. We barely hear about it in the end. I also was not a fan of the FMC becoming pregnant so young. I honestly don’t really like hearing about pregnancy at all for some reason. But I felt like Sean kind of robbed Zenny of her 20s by getting her pregnant so soon. It’s one thing to marry her young, it’s another thing to get her pregnant so young. I know he’s much older so time was important, but even a few years would have been better. I did really enjoy the acknowledgement of racism and Sean’s privilege. I thought Sierra Simone handled this well.

Overall, I really enjoyed this book and am enjoying this series.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Child death, Racism, Suicide, Terminal illness, Grief, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

krosebooks's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective 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

4.5

The first part of the book starts out predictable like other smutty books. Then out of nowhere you’re hit with tense waves of concern and contemplation. 

Beautiful. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Cursing, Death, Racism, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Classism

kb33's review against another edition

The taboo subject didn’t interest me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Minor: Child death, Pedophilia, Rape, and Suicide

unicornofthesea's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Sexual content, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Racism, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Religious bigotry

siad's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Cursing, Sexual content, and Death of parent

Moderate: Child death and Suicide

Minor: Racism