Reviews tagging 'Car accident'

Her Soul for Revenge by Harley Laroux

3 reviews

tguccione's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Murder, Stalking, Blood, Death, Grief, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Torture, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

Minor: Vomit and Car accident

shinyfox's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Gun violence, Sexual content, Violence, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Murder, Torture, Blood, and Body horror

Moderate: Alcohol, Mental illness, Medical content, Forced institutionalization, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Car accident, Drug use, Vomit, and Death of parent

using gun for sexual penetration, predator/prey dynamic

sultrytartreviews's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

2.75

I'd like to start this review off as saying, I'm pretty sure this low rating was all on me and not the book. I just had a really hard time wanting to pick this story up for some reason. It felt slow to me, but I can't explain why (other than the possibility that I already somewhat knew what would happen from book 1). I now know for a fact that this couples' kinks were not for me...the blood play and the gun play were too far for my tastes and left me feeling nothing during their steamy scenes. Which, honestly, I was shocked by. This hasn't happened to me in a taboo/high steam romance before. I found myself not really connecting with either MC, as well. A small thing, but I also wish the epilogue had been...more? We barely got anything from it and it wasn't very far from when the full storyline took place. So...not very helpful to see the couple coming together in bliss after the fact. 

I still recognize that this book was well written and did lots of things right, I just couldn't click with it for some reason. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Death, Gaslighting, Torture, Murder, Sexual content, and Gun violence

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Gore, Abandonment, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Stalking, Car accident, and Death of parent

sexual CW: blood play, use of guns during intimate scenes, pain play