Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

God of Pain by Rina Kent

25 reviews

h_lo1004's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Grief, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

jessanicolesingh's review

dark 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? Yes

4.5

God of Pain features Creighton, a grumpy and quiet brute, gradually broken down by Annika, a happy-go-lucky mafia princess. I just love when these hard, savage men dish out pure violence and control, and then turn around to be the king of aftercare. This book truly is the embodiment of pain from cover to cover; through childhood trauma, forbidden love, betrayal, and via BDSM 😉In this second installment, we see much more tension built between the rivalries and some fiery action that emphasize the forbidden love aspect these couples face.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Child abuse, Gun violence, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Death of parent and Murder

peeshy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful tense 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: Addiction, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, and Death of parent

cielosiluminado's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

1.5

pain. i felt just pure pain while reading this.

princess annika should’ve aimed in between creigh’s eyes the moment he treated her like shit for something she had no involvement in and happened before she was even born. then i really hated him so bad for putting her in a position of having to choose between her family or him, a guy she’s barely known for like 2 months. like bffr. then he gets mad when she chose her brother! ridiculous.

maybe rk shouldn’t have combined her two worlds… because in what universe is a rich, entitled white guy who peaked as a high school bully supposed to be more intimidating and feared than a man who was bred, born, and raised in, and is one of the important pillars of one of the world’s biggest criminal organizations? that scene between aiden and adrian made me burst out laughing because of how unserious it was. adrian should’ve unalived aiden right then and there.

only one star for adrianlia, jonathanaurora, ethanagnus, jercecy, and nikobran crumbs. thank fuck it’s over !

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Kidnapping

Minor: Animal death, Death of parent, and Murder

alexandryareads's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Kidnapping and Death of parent

culzean's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

bbygirl21's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

3.5

I have mixed feelings on this book. On one hand I loved Creighton and Annika, they're amazing. But I also really di n't like Creighton a good portion of the time as well. 

I love that they ended up together though. I think they're good for each other. They bring out parts of each other that wouldn't otherwise have been brought out of they didn't have each other. 

I really enjoyed this book overall. I just thought it was a bit slow and it didn't keep my attention hooked the entire way through. Out of the two books I've read so far from this series, this one isn't my favorite. I preferred the first book. But I would still recommend this book as well.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Gun violence, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, and Alcohol

Minor: Death of parent

eelka's review

dark medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

readwthsam's review against another edition

dark 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? N/A

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

poupimali's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

4.0

The first half of the book seams a bit rushed between Annika and Creighton
The plot is very good though.

- secret society 
- friends to lovers to enemies to lovers (yes)
- grumpy (him) / sunshine (her)
- mafia
- college romance
- Dom/sub

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, and Gaslighting