Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Lovely Violent Things by Trisha Wolfe

4 reviews

straybutterfly's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Car accident, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Abandonment

sydneykidny's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Drug use, Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

annacash's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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

4.5

Kallum and the series had grown on me with this book. In the first book, Kallum was tried hard but took it down a notch in this one. I love that he pulled Halen's memory out of her and reflected it back. Nice twist at the end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Miscarriage

Minor: Death of parent

zayyssa's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

Not for the faint-hearted. Truly DARK romance. Be warned.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Deadnaming, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cannibalism