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- Content warnings: Domestic violence, Abuse, Violence, Sexual assault, PTSD, Depression, Anxiety, Grooming, Adult/minor relationship, Toxic relationships, Trauma
Torment: Part One
by Dylan Page
Book 1 in The Bleeding Hearts
goodreads 3.94/5 25,802 ratings
storykind_community 4/5 3 ratings
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A decision-first view of the reading experience.
Length378 pages
Series statusCompleted series · 5 books
Spice3/5 · Dark / taboo style
PacingMedium
Story profile
What the story promises
The strongest reviewed signals about romance, fantasy, and the reading experience.
Romance promise
- Power imbalance
- Male/female pairing (M/F)
- Slow burn
- Medium
- Dark / taboo style
- Book hangover incoming
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- Dark/tortured soul
- Captor/captive
- Rough / aggressive style
- The angst delivered
- Anti-hero
- Age gap romance
- Desperate / urgent
- Possessive alpha
- Push and pull
- Emotional intimacy focus
- Protector
- Obsessive love interest
- Possessive/protective
- Touch starvation
- Dubious consent elements
- Rough/aggressive intimacy
- Power exchange
Fantasy promise
- Dark romance
- Bunker / base / compound
- Contemporary
- Forbidden love
- Small town / village
- Captive romance
Reading experience
- First person
- Dark
- Devastating
- High
- Damaged survivor
- Mental health rep
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- Angsty
- Raw
- Survivor
- Anxiety rep
- Gritty
- Emotional
- Runaway / on the run
- Depression rep
- Heartbreaking
- Intense
- Emotional devastation
- Gut punch ending
- Slow descent into darkness
- Cliffhanger warning
- Binge read
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Book details
- Length
- 378 pages
- Publisher
- Independently Published
- Language
- English
- Format
- Book