Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Hooked by Emily McIntire

111 reviews

walskishere's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

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

2.5

This book was... fine. I think the gore was gratuitous, even for dark romance. I just don't think that kind of explicit content is for me. The spicy scenes were good, if a bit repetitive. I probably wouldn't recommend this unless you can handle blood, gore, and body horror.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Gun violence, Gore, Body horror, and Child abuse

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Abandonment, and Alcohol

lizziebennet99'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, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Kidnapping, Toxic relationship, Torture, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Murder, Confinement, Death, Stalking, Physical abuse, and Sexual content

Moderate: Addiction, Death of parent, and Pedophilia

Minor: Pregnancy

vivivi's review against another edition

It wasn't to my taste. Not much seemed to happen that interested me. Things did happen. But I wasn't invested in the relationship or the characters, or the events that were happening.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Sexual content, Vomit, and Torture

Moderate: Death of parent

heartsandthrillerreads's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.5

A unique retelling of Peter Pan with a handful of references to the source material. You don't have to be a fan of Peter Pan to love this story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Sexual content, Grief, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Death, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Drug abuse and Drug use

Minor: Death of parent

brianna0205's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Lovedddd this book. Read it faster than any book I’ve ever read. It kept me “hooked” the entire time. There were no slow parts what so ever in this book! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Abandonment, Body horror, Child abuse, Death of parent, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Blood, Cursing, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Sexual content, and Torture

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

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

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

lexi_j's review against another edition

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Death, Blood, Torture, and Gore

Moderate: Kidnapping and Child abuse

the_restricted_section's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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

5.0

So dark and spicy! The writing is extremely well done. Character development fantastic! I couldn't stop reading, I had to know how it was going to play out. The ending is perfect. Also, mmy husband will definitely benefit from me reading this series. Hahaha.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual content, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual assault, Torture, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Death of parent, Pedophilia, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, and Incest

phrogonalilypad's review against another edition

dark funny tense 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? N/A

1.0

Before my thoughts; if you're going to read this book PLEASE KNOW there are descriptions of pedophilia, child rape, and multiple mutilations of a child. It is not just a sexy dark book. These themes are brought up multiple times in the book.

I liked it in the beginning. Low-key wish about 3/4 of the way through that it turned into Wendy's villain arc. Towards the end it just got messy. None of the "misunderstandings" were ever addressed by the characters. They just make assumptions and then don't talk or at least you're never shown them resolving that so they can continue their fuckery. Which is something that is indeed done in dark romances, four horsemen for example, addresses when they do fucked shit to her and it's outside of the messed up confines of what the fmc expects. The issue gets addressed. In this book... She just magically doesn't think about the messed up thing he does, that is outside of the confined of the messed up stuff she consented to and made excuses for.

I don't mind me a dark romance I also just didn't think the erotic scenes were that well written the writing was repetitive and towards the end the plotwists just felt messy.

There was a good sense of foreboding for a while but eventually it just left tme thinking "If you're really this ode to control and big boss of this crime world surely,,, surely you'd go about this in a more organized fashion. That's the whole point of organized crime." I know it's just meant to be a dark trashy fun sexy book but it just felt a bit lack on a lot of fronts. 

And too she says in the beginning she hopes her readers go in blind but ma'am I really wouldn't recommend surprising people with certain trigger warnings;

Minor Spoiler:

Main mans uncle was a pedo who raped and mutilated him and there are descriptions of the trauma being enacted and the traumas effect on the mmc. I do not think people should be surprised by that kind of situation and a trigger warning for at least that is owed to the reader. It's brought up several times throughout the book. Trigger warnings for that should be on the front page!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Blood, Child death, Child abuse, Murder, Death, Drug use, Adult/minor relationship, Sexism, Sexual violence, Torture, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Violence, Kidnapping, and Physical abuse

selestre's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Blood, Murder, and Sexual content

Minor: Car accident, Torture, Drug use, Vomit, Addiction, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Violence, Bullying, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Grief