Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

God of Pain by Rina Kent

30 reviews

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

ash13ynwm's review against another edition

dark 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, and Death of parent

bookdragong24's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse, Gun violence, Torture, Kidnapping, and Grief

Minor: Animal cruelty, Infertility, Suicide, Vomit, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

when the relationship of the main couple starts getting serious they are 20 and 17 (about a month before she's 18)

djm_chal's review

dark medium-paced

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

1.5

Most of this book felt like watching a car crash, not enjoyable but unable to look away. There were points when I thought it wasn't horrible or that it might be getting better but would soon make me cringe again. Some things about this book just gave me the ick. I've DNF'ed books for way less in the past, but my curiosity got the best of me, and it was not worth it in the end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Sexual content, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Mental illness, Toxic relationship, and Death of parent

Minor: Child abuse and Murder

queencard_lydia's review against another edition

Creighton was a boring guy Rina Kent tried to spice up by giving him weird kinks and making that the plot. God of Pain my eye. Annika became annoying and had no nose. Pink is superior to purple.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Gun violence, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, and Death of parent

😴 Snooze fest.

shaykay's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

4.5

I devoured this audiobook! I loved the first one even though the first one was so dark. I had no clue how Glyn and Kill would end up in a relationship, especially after how those two started, but there were so many twists and turns. In this one, we follow Creighton and Annika, and we get to see this one start in the previous book because she would not leave him alone, and Creighton is Glyndon's cousin. She just annoyed him every time she got the chance, but we got to explore that more in this book. We were starting to set up a fake dating scenario because Annika's mom promised that she wouldn't let the Bratva force her into an arranged marriage if she had someone she loved, but even though it was a massive thing at the beginning of the book we lose track of that really fast. This one was a different kind of darkness than the first book. This one was more BDSM and family issues, but I still enjoyed this book, and it had a lot of shocking moments. But ultimately, I liked the first book more. I can't wait to jump into the next book because I'm curious how Jeremy's book will go, and I really hope Bran gets his own book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Violence

Moderate: Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child abuse and Death of parent