Reviews with content warning for Death of parent - Heavy Crown

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Heavy Crown by Sophie Lark

25 reviews

apolen's review against another edition

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4.75

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romancereader's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

I loved the f*cking ending of this book the epilogue was everything i needed i do wish that the epilogue was longer and we got to meet all the characters from the previous book but we didn’t 🥲 i was kinda bored for the beginning of the book the book didn’t get interesting for me till revenge was the only thing the main male character Sebastian could see thats when the book got interesting for me you do see allot of the main characters from this book and the previous books in the brutal birthrights series kids they all have at least one kid except one couple that you don’t even see or hear about in this book i hope they did have a kid in a different book that I don’t know about the book moves kinda fast and i did enjoy that the female main character was a virgin and lost her virginity to the male main character and the male main character only there is another series after this one about the couples from the brutal birthrights kids so that’s gonna be interesting to read finally i do think strongly that Stolen heir is my favorite book in this series and idk if it was just me but at certain scenes of this book i kept thinking of all he’ll ever be by willow winters if you read both books you might see some similarities not allot but still some or maybe it was just me that saw similarities but anywho i rated this book a 4 stars⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ and only because i did not enjoy it until the ending i feel that got the last book in this series it could’ve been way better but i still enjoyed it though

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ecravens's review against another edition

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adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

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misswirum's review against another edition

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emotional sad fast-paced

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

2.25

Sadly, this is the series worst and most boring book. Both Yelana and Sebastian is boring af and I don't understand why the author would end the series like this.

2,25/5⭐️
2,5/5📝
1/5🌶

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amanda_reads13's review against another edition

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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

3.0

I enjoyed the evolution of Seb's character throughout this series. You see him go from an outsider in his own family, to the one in charge. In each book, you get snippets of who Seb is becoming. In this book you see him come to embrace his role in the family.

At first Seb comes off as selfish and it leads to irrevocable damage to his family. Throughout most of the book he puts his family in danger, first due to infatuation and then his desire for revenge.

Yelena was controled by her father, she was a pawn in his schemes against the Gallos. She put all of her faith in her brother to have her back, but she was ultimately betrayed by the one person she trusted the most. You could see how she truly loved Seb, but she could have told him the truth at any point, maybe then his family would have been better prepared at the wedding.

That scene in the dungeon... He said she could saystop at any point, but he made it very clear that to earn back his trust she had to allow him to do whatever he wanted to her. That was messed up. She was psychologically and emotionally abused her whole life, and he basically did to her what every other man has. What he did was emotional blackmail and, really, could be considered rape.

I LOVE seeing the other characters come back through this book and being able to see how their relationships have progressed. BUT you also get the sense that the family is fractured and the damaged suffered will forever keep the family members on seperate paths. This is solidified in the epilogue when you have no mention of Aida, Dante, or Nero. It insinuates that Dante has remained estranged from his family, Aida and Cal have gone clean, and Nero is probably running his garage.

Tropes: Mafia, instalove, revenge, waring families

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sdupont's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious 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

4.0

Heavy Crown similar to Savage Lover for me in that I felt we didn’t have enough time with the couple to really feel their connection grow and build- even less so for this book as the couple dated for such a short period of time. I struggled to get into this book but the second half was interesting with all of the action between the battling mafia families. I would recommend this entire series.

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weelasswithabook's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.5

CW, gun violence, death of a loved one, dismemberment, torture, misogyny, abusive parental relationship, historical DV, SA

⭐ Hidden motive
⭐ Mafia romance

Ooh this had me full of anxiety. So much happened in this book 👀 character deaths that broke my little heart, betrayal, sadness, a hero with such responsibility he didn't want nor need thrust on him, a heroine made to choose between her family (tbh they were dicks so I'd have bounced) and someone she loved.

Uggghhhhh this was just the perfect end to the series and Kingmakers (which I read first for some reason 🤣) is such a natural progression which just flows from Heavy Crown to The Heir.

10/10 would read again.

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