Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey

34 reviews

hapalyn's review against another edition

adventurous funny inspiring lighthearted medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Alcohol, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, and Fire/Fire injury

aliceloyallaleon's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Sexual content, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Medical content

bootsmom3's review

adventurous funny hopeful lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Death of parent, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

shannnne_reads_words's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted sad medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Grief and Injury/Injury detail

hayleyw's review against another edition

hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Alcohol, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

mspecht's review against another edition

funny lighthearted medium-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

4.25

Kinda mad I never met a bearded grumpy fishing captain who wanted to spoil me in EVERY 👀 way when I lived in Washington…

Waiting for Ms. Bailey‘s nobel prize for dirty talk bc WHEW

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Death and Death of parent

Minor: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Fire/Fire injury

cluckieduck's review against another edition

funny lighthearted medium-paced

Cute little rom-com with hot sex, but nothing groundbreaking. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Toxic friendship, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, and Grief

ashleycmms's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Grief, Alcohol, Abandonment, Death of parent, and Child death

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Toxic friendship

Minor: Pregnancy

readerette's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

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

3.75

Piper, Brendan and the secondary characters are funny and quirky, but a little more unrealistic than I prefer in fiction. The setting is cute and I enjoyed the commentary on our "social media selves".

However, I found the (frequent) sex between Piper and Brendan out of character. It was always "rough" (not nonconsensual, just rough) and they talked so much during the act, which just contributed to how weird it felt. There was also all this character work to make Brendan's attraction to Piper more than just because she's a hot blonde, but then most of the time he's complimenting her, he's praising her body or body parts. Also, for a guy who didn't fool around as a teen, married young, and stayed celibate after his marriage ended, Brendan sure talked like a straight-up porn star. Very much a "lady (well, gentleman) in the street, freak in the bed" vibe that just felt off-kilter rather than cute or alluring.

I still finished it. There were some touching moments and the characters grew during the story, which I like. But the relationship between Brendan and Piper needed more realism and a gentler approach to be relatable and engaging for me as a reader.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Alcohol, Cursing, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Pregnancy

leahrosiee's review

adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Alcohol

Moderate: Drug use

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Death, and Death of parent