Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

Hooked by Emily McIntire

104 reviews

linearev's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

This book is not for the People who like a morally grey man who likes an innocent girl. James (hook) is irredeemably a bad person, and if you can accept that, this book will be good. Though, if you expect him to having somehow misunderstood killing and being a mob boss, put the book down, for your own good.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug use, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Pregnancy

nova_lilias's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, and Death of parent

Minor: Pregnancy

nicoles_reading_corner's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Drug use, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse, Pedophilia, and Physical abuse

Minor: Pregnancy

stephliljazz's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This is a Dark Romance Fairytale Retelling of Peter Pan. Drug lords pushing pixie dust, and fighting over territory plus a revenge driven MMC. You just can't go wrong here. The MMC is Hook and the MFC is Wendy. I flew through this book. I'm usually a pretty slow reader but this I finished in a day. Peter Pan is my favorite story of all time so i wanted to give this retelling a chance and it did not disappoint. Is it like the original Peter Pan? No, not at all, it is quite spicy. Did the author find ways to interweave characters and things from the original story into her retelling flawlessly? Yes she absolutely did that. I would rate the spice 5 peppers! There is a lot of spice and it is very detailed. There is quite a bit of violence also just a heads up. Consider that your trigger warning. I can't wait to read the others in the series!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Domestic abuse, Vomit, Car accident, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

lizzie_b99's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Pedophilia, and Death of parent

Minor: Pregnancy

sierranorgan's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Really enjoyed this one! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, and Pregnancy

karalara's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Gun violence, Grief, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Drug abuse, Vomit, Pregnancy, and Fire/Fire injury

naechan's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

2.5

The first part was promising. Good girl with daddy issues runs in to a bad boy with a traumatic past. For once I thought we were going to get a female lead who is a good person at her core but who isn’t a complete idiot. For example,

she's rightfully suspicious when he randomly shows up at her workplace after they met only once without her giving him the address.

She seemed to have some common sense and self preservation at first until she goes on an actual date with him, after which it’s like she got a lobotomy and her whole personality got wiped out. The second half is just Stockholm syndrome galore. I didn’t buy their “love” at all, I felt like there was no emotional connection between the two main characters, at best they are just horny for each other. He treats her like shit the whole time and she just decides she’s okay with it because of her daddy issues I guess. I also didn’t care about the whole mystery/plot surrounding the drug cartel. 
There was an annoying amount of  misogyny and women hating, not just from the male characters, but the narrative itself. Wendy is this virginal, innocent and pure creature who is secretly yearning to be fucked hard and that makes her special. Meanwhile all other women in this book are superficial, evil and vapid. They just jealous of her and they don’t act like people at all, but like caricatures of themselves.
It’s not the worst thing I have read, but it feels like wasted potential. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Drug use, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

atravellingpenguin's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Torture, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Vomit, and Death of parent

Minor: Bullying, Drug use, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Rape, and Pregnancy

wrensreadingroom's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail