Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Sweet Temptation by Cora Reilly

4 reviews

lokeylez's review

the age gap is fucked, like i’m fine with age gap but this is a freshly 18, like fresh fresh, with a 32 year old and that’s fucked. there’s other shiy i don’t like too but that’s it mainly. i skipped quite a lot of paragraphs and finally decided i can’t with it anymore.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Death, Incest, Misogyny, Suicide, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Homophobia, Torture, Excrement, and Outing

bbygirl21's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I found this story enjoyable for the most part. The thought I wouldn't enjoy this book in the beginning. I found some of the things that happened at the beginning to be disgusting and some of the traditions were downright horrible. 

But as the story goes on it gets better at least the main characters of the story do. Quite a few of the side characters remained to be absolutely horrible in my opinion all in the name of wanting the best for their kids or their family when I'm reality their actions were for selfish reasons. 

Other than these small issues spattered throughout the story, I did end up really liking it by the end. 

I love how despite being tested like a child throughout the book, Giulia stuck her ground and didn't take anything from anyone especially from like her husband and the men in this book and I like how she fought for her version of a happy family despite all the obstacles placed in front of her. 

She may have been one of my favorite characters in this story. She made the best of the situation she was forced into and proved everyone wrong while putting her new family above that of her blood family. This story shows that blood relation isn't everything.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Incest, Infidelity, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gun violence, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Animal cruelty, Sexism, Vomit, Medical content, Abortion, and Alcohol

nelumboreads's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense 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

3.25

I mean-
Okay see first of all it was not incest ffs.
It's bloody semantics.

I won't say anything else, coz my man likes oral so I'll just stfu (:

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Gore, Gun violence, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

chaoticace's review against another edition

emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Incest, Sexual content, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Cursing, Blood, and Abortion

Minor: Animal cruelty, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, and Death of parent