Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Darling Venom by Parker S. Huntington

79 reviews

katiemdelee's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

This book was so freaking good!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Death of parent

kc_louisa's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective 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

5.0

This book is so full of emotion and that ending omg I loved every second this book is amazing and I wish there was more 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

Moderate: Child death, Cursing, Infertility, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Death of parent

ingridkh's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infertility, and Miscarriage

Minor: Self harm

meowrie's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad 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? Yes

5.0

This was my first Parker S. Huntington book, and I went in blind. This is billed as a romance, and a love story, and I don't really think it's either one. It's hard to describe. Romances have HEA and the character I resonated with most didn't get a HEA. Or did they? Depends on how you feel, I guess. 

I want to make this vague on purpose. Go into this blind so you get the emotions and the full experience. It hits you hard sometimes. I'm not a crier, but if I was, I would probably cry during this book. 

I pretty much liked all the characters. Even Terry. Until about one minute left in the book. That final reveal broke my heart. Kellan really had nobody in his life, did he? 

The narration was flawless. Jacob Morgan was a perfect Kellan. Absolutely perfect. Sebastian York and Ava Erickson are fabulous as well. This all star cast plays these sad, broken characters beautifully. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infertility, Miscarriage, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

lallagray's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment

Moderate: Child death and Miscarriage

Minor: Vomit

taylanareader17's review against another edition

dark emotional sad

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Grief

Moderate: Drug use, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

sienasummerrreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

Going in blind was the best decision as I had no idea what to expect, except for a few tropes. This is raw, deep and emotional with a grief and healing journey all these characters go on. I don’t want to give too much away but it was heartbreaking at the start, watching a character's legacy piece together broken parts was just beautiful to read. The medical appointment scene had me screaming. The spice was intimate and the Audiobook narration was fantastic highly recommend it. I will say it’s a little long and a big factor in having this on my TBR it could more than likely make me cry. I love a good cry but I didn’t in this. I can understand why people do but I just felt sad for everyone involved. 

If you love: 

🔹Enemies To Lovers 
🔹Best Friends Brother 
🔹Age Gap (12yrs)
🔹A Broken Love Story 
🔹Healing Journey 
🔹Intimate Spice 

Genre/Type: Romance 18+
APK: Kindle / Audiobook
Pages: 712 
Audiobook Length: 15hrs 1min
Narrators: Sebastian York, Jacob Morgan and Ava Erickson - Dual 
Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟
Spice: 🌶️.5
Series or Stand Alone: Stand Alone 
Tropes or Themes: Enemies To Lovers, Best Friends Brother,  Age Gap (12yrs), Love After Loss, Slow Burn, MMC Obgyn Doctor, FMC Assistant, Jealousy, Letters, Healing Journey, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Cursing, Mental Health, Suicide, Suicidal Thoughts and Grief 
Mentions: Death Of Parents, Depression and Drugs. 
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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicide, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

dmaried0424's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-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

3.75

I am not going lie. At around chapter 8, I came here to say that I was not going to finish this book, that I hated this book, that I could not understand why there were so many good reviews but then I kept reading and suddenly I couldn’t stop. When I say this book caught me, made me fall, broke my heart, then made me fall in love all over again I mean it. This being said the book could’ve easily been shorter and the story line would’ve been just as good I found myself skim reading at some points because certain parts were just filler but the overall storyline is what really kept me going.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Child death, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Minor: Infertility, Miscarriage, Medical content, and Fire/Fire injury

dlsmk's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Alcohol

_koreen_'s review against another edition

challenging emotional funny inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

This book destroys you, it clutches onto your heart and rips it out. Shredding it into millions of  pieces,  only to tape the edges back together by the end .  

Such a heartbreaking, raw, beautiful, love story within another love story. 
I cried three times so be warned lol 

By far one of my favorite reads ❤️  My heart left a piece of itself within this book and I frankly don’t ever want it back . 

5✨❤️😭

Favorite quote : 
“I realized, with depressing clarity, that she wasn’t the venom at all. She was the antidote. But the quantities were all off.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

Minor: Stalking