Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Her Soul for Revenge by Harley Laroux

4 reviews

heybethrenee's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

3.5

Wow. I’ve read dark romance before but this was a WHOLE another level. I really did enjoy Zane and Junipers dynamic tho and Harley did a great job of including it in the trilogy but also making it a stand alone. Like I wasn’t bored with any of the repetition of information or plot points which was awesome

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Torture, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Vomit, Stalking, Religious bigotry, Physical abuse, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Gun violence, Grief, and Gore

Moderate: Drug use, Alcohol, Child death, Forced institutionalization, and Abandonment

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

reginaexmachina's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, Death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Sexual content, Grief, Abandonment, Body horror, Physical abuse, and Violence

zellapaige's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

4.25

The sex in this is deliciously depraved, our MC’s are a lovely pair of kinky switches. The book hits a huge swath of the most common BDSM related kinks from bondage to permanent marking to primal. 
This book took me a long time to read. I had to take many breaks while reading because the subject matter felt so sole consuming and serious. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Classism, Death, Drug use, Gore, Gaslighting, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Stalking, and Violence