Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Dante by Sadie Kincaid

15 reviews

louiselauren's review

dark fast-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

1.5

This was an example of trauma and abuse being used too casually as plot points. Read content warnings AND keep in mind that triggering content isn’t done well. 

The way she portrays female characters overcoming / recovering from abuse is so wildly unrealistic that it pushed me “out of the moment” with the book and nudged me further and further into disinterest with the plot and distrust of the author. I don’t expect romance books to be realistic, but portrayal of trauma’s impact/recovery was absurd. 

I’m also confused about how this book managed to have an obsessive MMC *and* was ultimately pretty boring. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Incest, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Medical content

bergha1998's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.25

It’s a kidnapping mafia book, I typically love that sub genre, but nothing really happened. There wasn’t enough plot or character development in my opinion. 

Dark Romance, Mafia, Stockholm Syndrome, 3 1/2 🔥

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

lauraschuhmann's review

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.0

The beginning of the book was actually really nice at first with all the tension and everything so that it was easy to get into reading the book, however, as soon as they got together it kind of went downhill from there. There was overall just too many miscommunication problems and fights. He also clearly has aggression problems by going to her throat for simply asking a question. She also wasn’t much better though due to the distrust and her being so dramatic by automatically always assuming the worst. However, I do understand that it might be due to her past and everything but after a while it really gets annoying and similar books I read also don’t really have that problem. There was also mentions of the fmc reading on her kindle and romance books with naked men on the cover which I had those mentions in books because I’m trying to escape and not read about someone reading romance while they are literally getting railed 24/7 by their hot spouse. Besides that, Joey was so childish and annoying that I can’t see her getting better with her behavior so I will read her book and see what happens though might get dnf‘ed because she annoyed me hella much. Anyways, i’m the end the book wasn’t that bad altogether but there was just these certain things that really annoyed me and it the book just kind of lost its potential at the halfway point, still finished and enjoyed it though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Incest, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

tguccione's review

dark emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault

Moderate: Torture, Violence, Medical content, Murder, and Pregnancy

Minor: Incest

jules_c's review

dark tense fast-paced

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

3.25

i did really like it i just felt that there was a lot going and this should have been split into 2 books. 
-In the beginning she was so happy being able to act like a nurse again but then its mentioned twice and never again. I thought it would be cool to have a seen were she has to help dante through an injury

- Her trauma was kind of breezed over. i would have liked to know more. Dante learned about her trauma in the beginning then tried to help her get over it twice then got revenge on the people that hurt her then it mentioned once at the end of the book. I felt that it would be cool to learn more of her trauma

-In general with sadies books i feel like it would be nice to have a scene were the girl is able to stay mad and maybe act a little more dominant just because in most scenes were the females are mad the guys just sleep with her and then they no longer acts like they care, i think it would be cool to have one of  the girls not just get over it because they got her aroused.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Blood, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Rape, and Vomit

Minor: Medical content