Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

The Trouble with Hating You by Sajni Patel

88 reviews

nicolesreadingbooks's review against another edition

emotional hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

Love the pining and angst what a bop

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

carolibrary's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted 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: Pregnancy, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Sexual assault, and Death of parent

esvilco's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Sexual assault

decembermagpie's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Death

onemorepagecrew's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful 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

In The Trouble with Hating You, we meet Liya, a happily single woman who has a successful biochemical engineering career and is not interested in marriage, despite the pressures from her family and community.  Her parents attempt to introduce her to a man they’d like her to consider for marriage and she initially bolts, however they ultimately build a friendship through a shared workplace and a number of run-ins. 

 

Over the course of their slow-building love story we learn about his past and her past, both containing traumas they’ve been carrying.  As they learn to trust each other and their relationship develops, the author also gives storylines to their friends and families to round out the picture of their network.  There’s feisty banter, deep friendships, trauma processing, and romance – all wrapped up in a charming book.  While there are challenging topics, the main feeling I had from the book was hope and rebuilding.  It was a quick and enjoyable read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Misogyny

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Child abuse, and Death of parent

nadia32's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny and Sexual assault

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Sexual harassment, and Death of parent

Minor: Domestic abuse

meals_reads's review against another edition

emotional hopeful medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault and Emotional abuse

audreyloopy's review against another edition

emotional funny tense fast-paced

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

3.0

This was a tough read because I just kept screaming “why aren’t you in therapy?!” at pretty much every character. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault and Emotional abuse

gsrija's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Sexual assault

middle_name_joy's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted reflective medium-paced

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

3.75

It took a little while to get into this one - until that hurt-comfort scene after the diner. Yes please. I would take 8 million of those moments over explicit spice. It stayed PG-13 through the whole book. There was a lot of other things to love: Indian culture, female friendship, family connections, a whole bunch of #metoo drama, and main characters with interesting backstories and lives.

My issue here was on the writing side. The pace was often slowed down by clunky dialogue. Trying to get too much delivered that way, resulting in obvious exposition. Conversations that just went on too long. Bumpy transitions. Important stuff just dumped into scenes and not drawing the reader's attention to it. It lacked some finesse, I guess.

But overall, I liked it. I understood why liya put up her walls, even if that tough exterior was sometimes infuriating to read. And Jay is a man written by a woman. Need I say more?

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse

Minor: Sexual assault