Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

Blood of the Saints by Denver Rose

4 reviews

romancejunkie's review

slow-paced

0.5

What is this? Breaking Dawn, the movie? 😐🙄😐🙄😐🙄😐 DNF at 88%. Do you know how bad a book has to piss me off to quit after already reading 600 goddamn pages?

I can’t remember ever being this furious at a book. Talk about jumping the fucking shark. RIDICULOUS. 

This was lauded as the next Den of Vipers and all I have to say to that is: wut. 

This 127% did not have DoV vibes. Like, at all. There was very little character development and growth which made the sudden switch to this group being in love totally unrealistic and improbable. And it was, quite frankly, icky. I don’t want to yuck on anyone’s yum, but the kinks in this were super SUPER not my kinks. I didn’t find any of the sex scenes actually sexy or even interesting. I cringed through all of them. 

And she’s grossed out using someone else’s make up but not being fucked with someone else’s blood or drinking it up like a milkshake? LOLOLOL okay. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, Kidnapping, and Abandonment

sammiebabie's review

dark emotional tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, and Murder

rebeccareader's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

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

2.0

It feels harsh giving this book 2 stars, but personally this book was far too long and the longer it went on, the less I cared.

First flaw, Zamira. I never really cared for her as the female lead. I didn’t feel connected to her and I didn’t particularly like following her as the woman.

Second flaw, connection with the characters. Ace, Blais and Theon. On the surface, great characters. But apart from feeling a very small connection to Blais, I didn’t feel invested in their story or why they were the way they were.

I think that’s the main issue with this book for me. For an over 600 page book, it was rare I ever felt connected to the characters and as a result I didn’t mind all that much about the plot. Yes it’s steamy/smutty and has twists and turns but I had to skim read by the end because it was just too long. Sadly, it had all the ingredients for me to love but personally it wasn’t for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, and Kidnapping

applejacksbooks's review

dark informative tense slow-paced

3.5

Overall I think this is fine. I did end up skimming about 70 pages towards the end of the book because it was slightly repetitive. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism