Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

There Are No Saints, by Sophie Lark

6 reviews

morgansbookshelves's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

 Bumped up my rating from a 4.5 to a 5! I love how dark and twisted this book is. Lark has a very impressive talent for making you root for the bad guy, as much as I should have disliked Cole I couldn't help but hang on to every word in his chapters. Seeing how his mind worked was fascinating and I am so glad that I have access to book 2. I need to see how this is going to end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Classism, Kidnapping, Cursing, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Gore, Sexual assault, Torture, Death, Emotional abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Injury/injury detail, Murder, Sexual content, Stalking, Violence, Body horror, and Bullying

Moderate: Self harm, Abandonment, Misogyny, Child abuse, and Confinement

Minor: Death of parent and Alcohol

_missal3x's review

dark mysterious tense medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Murder, Child abuse, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Stalking, Torture, and Injury/injury detail

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Suicide attempt, Alcoholism, Self harm, and Alcohol

golden_like_dior's review

challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Gaslighting, Grief, Murder, Stalking, Self harm, Abandonment, Abortion, Kidnapping, Injury/injury detail, Sexual content, and Violence

shaipanda's review

dark emotional tense fast-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

4.5

Bruh this book is so fucked upppp - but damn it was really good lol - I literally binge read this in like 4 or so hours when I got back from class and am like 30% or more into the sequel lol it’s so good like wtf I had been avoiding this book when reading through Sophie Lark’s backlist cause I thought I wouldn’t like it but apparently I was wrong 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Child abuse, Sexual content, Alcoholism, Gore, Violence, Body horror, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Self harm, Blood, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Murder, Sexism, Sexual violence, Stalking, and Torture

Minor: Cannibalism

hannahlee98's review

dark mysterious tense

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Blood, Murder, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Violence, Death of parent, and Alcohol

zellapaige's review

challenging dark hopeful mysterious medium-paced

3.5

Dark, so so so dark. I think the relationship between the love interests has been developed very well.  What the story really lacks is the background to build the relationship between the two duelling San Francisco serial killers.  As much as the leading man rejects the other San Fran serial killer their story is as central to the plot as the smutty romance, and that aspect of this story is seriously underdeveloped. I am desperately hoping the second book builds both that story and the romance.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Injury/injury detail, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Abandonment, Alcoholism, and Emotional abuse