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Un désir invisible by KJ Charles

10 reviews

kaneebli's review against another edition

emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Sexual content, Murder, and Classism

Moderate: Animal death, Infidelity, Racism, Torture, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Child abuse and Gun violence

jess_justmaybeperfect's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad 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: Sexual assault

Moderate: Ableism, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Violence

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Infidelity, Racism, Rape, Suicide, Torture, Blood, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Outing, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

madscientistcat's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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

4.75

Another wonderful KJ Charles book, I just adore her adventure-filled writing and her lovely and complex characters 💜

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Homophobia, and Sexual content

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, Suicide, Torture, and Murder

Minor: Animal cruelty

wilybooklover's review against another edition

emotional mysterious medium-paced

3.0

This is described as a slow-burn in the blurb but

the main characters have expressed their attraction and kissed by the 10% mark and the first sex scene is around 20%...

that’s not slow-burn to me! That’s way faster than average! 

Between the characters getting together so early and Clem’s reluctance to delve further into the mystery in the first half, the story does lack some momentum. It picks up a little in the second half but it took me a long time to read this for so few pages. 

Still, Clem and Rowley made a very cute couple and I enjoyed how quiet their relationship was, and how appreciative they were of each other. They were both very intriguing characters; Clem who is coded as autistic and of Indian heritage, and Rowley who is a short and skinny taxidermist. I like how KJ Charles tends to write characters outside of the usual you tend to find in romance. The mystery was quite interesting once it got going, if predictable. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Physical abuse, and Torture

Minor: Homophobia, Racism, Suicide, and Colonisation

20sidedbi's review against another edition

mysterious slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Ableism, Animal death, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racism, Violence, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism

Minor: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Suicide, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Murder, and Colonisation

mallorychristine's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism and Animal death

Minor: Animal death, Emotional abuse, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Medical content, and Colonisation

mandkips's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Sexual content

Moderate: Alcoholism, Torture, Violence, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Homophobia, Racism, and Suicide

kharlan3's review against another edition

(m/m, romance, mystery, historical). I would die for Clem or Rowley. I love how they’re both often wrong but in a way that feels super real and not blown out of proportion. The mystery was done nicely. The fact that I kept picturing Clem from Buffy was the worst part of this book 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Alcoholism and Torture

Minor: Homophobia and Racism

booksthatburn's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective 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

4.0

AN UNSEEN ATTRACTION is a sexy historical murder mystery with great intimacy, communication, and explanations of taxidermy. 

Clem and Rowley's relationship is great to read. They don't have the best communication quite yet, but they're continually trying to understand each other better even before becoming a couple. The sex scenes fit the characters and shifted between developing their relationship and showing how it was deepening outside of those sensual moments. The murder mystery is very engaging and the resolution made sense without being too obvious. The stakes are very clear and the antagonists at interesting, I'm looking forward to seeing how the series moves on given how things turned out. The secondary characters don't get nearly as much time as Clem and Rowley (for obvious reasons) but their personalities come through really well and their various reactions to the very stressful circumstances made sense. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual content, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Sexism, and Violence

Minor: Animal death, Domestic abuse, Suicide, and Torture

obviousthings's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Ableism, Alcoholism, Animal death, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Torture, Violence, and Murder

Minor: Gun violence, Homophobia, Racism, Suicide, and Death of parent