Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Beautiful Carnage by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti

3 reviews

garbage_mcsmutly's review against another edition

adventurous emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.5

📝 A pretty standard Mafia kidnapping dark romance. 

🚫🇬🇧 This book has one of my biggest pet peeves: Commonwealth authors who write American characters, but don't get any Americans to check the language. All "whilst" and "do the washing up" and whatnot. It got to the point where I was like "maybe this is supposed to take place in England???" But both the voice actors sound extremely American and at one point someone gives a phone number with a Washington DC area code. So I guess not. 

🎧 The performers were fine but not great. Both felt a little flat. The MMC voice felt a bit cliche gangster style.

🌶️ 4/5 a fair bit of sexual tension and hooking up, plus it all has the tint of the forbidden.

✊🏳️‍🌈 Lol nope, no diversity. As far as I could tell, everyone in this book was white, Italian American, abled, and straight.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Misogyny, Sexual content, Violence, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Drug use, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Blood, Murder, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

Minor: Animal cruelty, Child death, Infertility, Suicide, Torture, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

chi__'s review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Sexual content, Kidnapping, and Death of parent

Moderate: Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, and Pregnancy

keclark81's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Violence, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Child death, Sexual content, Suicide, and Death of parent

Minor: Infertility, Abortion, and Pregnancy