Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

If He Had Been with Me by Laura Nowlin

57 reviews

aralynn'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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide attempt, and Car accident

Moderate: Car accident, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Alcohol, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Mental illness, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Vomit

katierosecrane's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-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

5.0

I loved this book entirely. I love Autumn she is the perfect weirdo. I love Finny. I love them.  I love the realistic love story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Alcohol, Cursing, Death, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Grief, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Self harm, and Suicide

summerspence's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad 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

3.0

Quick and enjoyable read, although I think I may have finally aged out of the "...but we didn't know we liked each other" miscommunication trope. Also, the plot is predominately moved along solely by foreshadowing for most of the book, so you will probably see the twists and turns coming from miles away.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Child death, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Death, and Suicidal thoughts

akusushi's review

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

Made me sob so hard i snorted. Would never read again. Ending was rushed. Main character reminded me of me in high school. Made me reflect a lot on my own situations and relate them to the book (in a good and bad way). To everyone saying it’s cheesy/cringe: this is a high school romance. The characters are teenagers. Of course it will be cringe and cheesy, weren’t we all at some point in our youth? Anyways. The ending was predictable, what hurts is the lead up to it. #teamfinny 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Suicide attempt, Grief, Mental illness, and Death

Moderate: Sexual content, Alcoholism, and Pregnancy

Minor: Eating disorder, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

kathsia's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, Car accident, Self harm, and Grief

Minor: Pregnancy, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

hufwulf's review against another edition

sad slow-paced

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

3.5

finished this book in the course of two days, the plot is rather slow
seemed to be worth it to stick to the end, cried like a baby 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Toxic relationship and Toxic friendship

readyforit's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-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? Yes

3.75

3.75 ⭐️ 0.5 🌶️ (non-descriptive)
The style of writing is unique in that there’s not a lot of dialogue, but more like how a teenager would tell their diary what happened today. Takes you right back to hs🥲 a personally hard read because of this. -1 ⭐️ because it’s a sad beginning, first 2/3, and end, and bc of a trope I don’t like that popped up at the end. I would catch myself feeling hopeful for FMC and have to keep reminding myself she doesn’t get a HEA. Would reread, ready to get wrecked by the sequel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Death

pregnancy trope at the very end, and I’m not a huge fan of how it’s thrown in there as a reason to keep living

camjammy13's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

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

5.0

It was a great books. It was a bit too much nothing. Like I didn’t like how the only sad part was at the end. It was good though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy and Suicide attempt

Minor: Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Eating disorder, Self harm, Sexism, Vomit, and Mental illness

jasmind496's review

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

Even though typically I am not that much of an romance reader, this book killed me!

The whole book I was just like 'Jamie and Autumn are kind of toxic and kind of not ...' and was Routing for Finny and Autumn!
Well, I got it - for like five pages :/
And then - my downfall - the ending. I mean, I guessed from the very beginning that he was going to die but - after they discovered their true feelings for each other - no. Just no.
And then the sui**de attempt And the sudden pregnancy - I am lost And incredibly sad about everything.
And I cried. A lot. 😭

Please. Read it. 
"You're going to suffer, but you're going to be happy about it." 👍🏻

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Toxic relationship

simzeemillerrainbow458's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide and Suicide attempt

Minor: Sexual assault, Self harm, Miscarriage, Death, Eating disorder, Car accident, Grief, and Toxic relationship