Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

Den of Vipers by K.A. Knight

12 reviews

amateur_bookworm's review against another edition

dark 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

3.75

My summary: 
Diesel, Ryder, Garrett, and Kenzo are The Vipers. Ryder is the front man and face of their legitimate and illegitimate companies. Garrett is the enforcer. Kenzo is the bookie. And Diesel is the assassin. They are ruthless, brutal, and sexy as hell. They run this city and nobody crosses them. When Rob racks up a debt to them that he can’t pay, he offers to sell his daughter, Roxxane, to them to cover it. Roxy has been on her own since she was 17 and is now 24–and a total badass. She owns Roxers, a dive bar in town. When the Vipers come to collect her, she knows she has no way of getting away from them. But as infuriated as Roxy is by being taken as property, she soon can’t help but be attracted to her captors. And once she realizes they’re all broken in their own way, they all find ways to help each other heal. 

My thoughts: 

If you’re going to read this book, you’re going to have to get really cool about a bunch of stuff really quickly. I imagine there is a niche for this book, however, it is not exactly *my* niche. 

I saw an out of context, smutty quote on Bookstagram and immediately downloaded it from Kindle Unlimited. And, wow, let me tell you, I did not have any idea of exactly what I was diving into with this one. 

This is a VERY dark mafia romance. The content is, well, a lot. The list of trigger warnings is very long for this book. I highly suggest anyone look through all of them before reading this book. It has tons of smut, a lot of violence, and some plot. 

I feel like I should be disgusted by this book, and I somewhat am, but I also could not stop flying through the pages. Some (most?) parts were just gross, and I don’t see how even a contortionist could’ve made some of these scenes possible, and some was just too over the top for me. “Why choose” has never been my favorite trope but this isn’t the worst that I’ve read. 

I’m actually more concerned that I’m not more concerned about this book. I absolutely do not recommend this for most people, but if this is your thing, then definitely have at it and enjoy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

anisdiananana's review

dark fast-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Gun violence, Slavery, and Torture

lavenderr's review

dark fast-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? No

1.5

jfc, wild that this was published, even more wild i managed to finish this, skewed perception of "romance," would not read again

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Alcohol and War

cait's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

kiwitiger's review

dark funny medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

trinforeman's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny tense fast-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

1.25

Okay, final thoughts... the sex is incredibly HOT, minus a few weird scenes and most of those were with Diesel. The overall story is quite horrible and cliche. It's cheesy with plot holes and inconsistencies all over the place. The character development and relationships are not believable. However it was fun and Roxy is pretty damn hilarious.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

fullmoony's review

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

2.5

I should have read the description before reading this, and I should have DEFINITELY read content warnings. This book is terrible, the only thing I like about it is the storyline away from the reverse harem dumpster fire

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Violence, Trafficking, and Sexual harassment

lindsayrae114's review

dark tense medium-paced

1.75

Predictable plot, reads like a fanfic w names changed to protect the copywritten. Some of the shmex scenes were good, but nothing I needed to bookmark for future use. 

Thought I'd read it for the sake of booktok hype but it was pretty blegh. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

sarahlucine's review

dark fast-paced

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

3.5

This is def a book for a VERY specific kind of reader but I actually found myself enjoying most of it. The characters aren’t amazing but they aren’t completely terrible and the plot was mostly okay once you get over the selling-your-child aspect (not a spoiler-it’s on the back of the book)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Blood

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Trafficking

alexandravlvrd's review

dark fast-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

Y’all need Jesus. And this is coming from an agnostic.

For real, the smut was awful, sounded like a bad gang bang po/rn film with some kind of copy of A Serbian Film. The plot? THERE WAS NONE. I remember I picked up this book because of TikTok obviously so I wanted to see what everyone was talking (curiosity killed the cat indeed) about but one girl talked about the approach to mafia and how they build family around friends, ehmmm, more than half of the book was only about sex and dirty talk, how is that building relationships?. They were like 5 out of 70 chapters in total about the plot and regret the time spent on this, but that’s my fault for not believing about how awful this was.

If you excuse me, I will go and wash my eyes with soap.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Stalking, and Death of parent