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Three Swedish Mountain Men by Lily Gold

32 reviews

superstar_y2k's review against another edition

lighthearted relaxing fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Medical content, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Car accident and Emotional abuse

kam_be's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Abandonment

Moderate: Car accident and Toxic relationship

Minor: Emotional abuse, Sexual harassment, Animal cruelty, Gaslighting, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, and Toxic friendship

finnickdeservedbetter's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Bullying, Car accident, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, and Misogyny

Minor: Alcoholism, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Animal death, Child abuse, Infidelity, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Blood, and Drug use

kbea88's review against another edition

dark 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? Yes

3.0

Lily Gold writes her characters sort of all the same. A woman sorting her shit out, a fun, flighty man, a quiet, calm man, and a brooding tough guy with a cinnamon bun heart. That said, even though I’ve now essentially read the same book 4 times, I liked all of them. Fluff/dark/smut. Probably good for getting out of a reading slump. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Car accident, Misogyny, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Infidelity

Revenge porn is a major plot point

emilycruz1016's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Stalking, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Cursing, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, and Medical content

hannibanani29's review against another edition

funny lighthearted 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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Car accident, Bullying, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Cursing, Blood, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, and Abandonment

Minor: Pregnancy, Infidelity, Drug use, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

percervall's review against another edition

emotional funny fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Medical content, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Sexism, and Medical trauma

cluckieduck's review against another edition

adventurous emotional lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

I really like Lily's writing style. Faking with Benefits was great and this one is no different, but the one thing I think could improve (which appeared in both books) was the level of grovelling leading to the resolution. 

Our FMC Daisy

almost dies because of the actions of one of the MMCs, not to mention all the blame she takes on after her recent SA traumas

. And then it's immediately all forgiven?! Pfft. I understand the need for an HEA, but just a little more fleshing out would move this to a 5⭐️ rating for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Bullying, Cursing, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Car accident, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Animal death

Minor: Drug use and Medical content

andeng's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Car accident

lea_talisa's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.75

I’m officially in love with Lily Gold’s books!

They just have everything you’d ever want. The deep relationship, emotional connections, love and trust. But also there’s angst, drama, traumatic pasts and heart-wrecking events happening.

Her books are capturing from beginning to end and I can’t manage to put it down.
I really like the writing style and structure of her books as well.

All of this seamlessly applies to “Three Swedish Mountain Men”. 

Again I loved all four of the characters and how their relationship built. 
Each of the men (Eli, Riven& Cole) have their own unique character and we get to know them individually as Daisy spends time with them one-on-one as well as together.
Through an accident they get to know each other and without really knowing a lot about the other one they set up a deep emotional connection.
Daisy’s past presents an unexpected shock to the guys and everything’s starting to go down.
I love the way Lily Gold always deals with these kinds of situations.
In other books I often feel like problems are solved too easily or the characters are way too understanding/ forgiving to be realistic. 
Lily Gold manages to find the perfect way through every situation like this. Meanwhile she makes the characters and their feelings tangible to the reader.

In my opinion this book actually could’ve been longer as there are more possibilities to further tell the story and Daisy and her three Swedish Mountain Men.

I’m excited and sad at the same time because I loved this book so much but also I have only one book of hers left I didn’t read (which is Triple Duty Bodyguards). Still, I am excitedly looking forward to reading that one and to Lily Gold publishing more books I’m sure I’m going to love!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Infidelity