Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

The Fiancée Farce by Alexandria Bellefleur

12 reviews

caseythereader's review against another edition

emotional 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? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Death of parent

wrinnola's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted 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

3.75

This book is very well written and enjoyable… until it’s not. Worth a read, but the characters’ decisions toward the end made me cringe so hard I stopped reading for a good month. If you like cheesy rom-coms, you’ll like this one. Definitely glad I finished it though. One thing I’ll say that was really refreshing about this book was the lack of homophobia. I don’t think this is a spoiler to say. A lot of queer romance books have a heavy homophobia theme, so having one without that is really nice. Overall, this book is a cute and fun read.

It just could’ve done without the intense sobbing and “you’re better off without me” trope. Those couple chapters soured the whole book. Without them, this book would have been like a 4.5/5 for me. Harsh? Maybe. I’m probably biased because I really can’t stand that specific trope. I genuinely really enjoyed the book outside of that though, so it’s hard to not be disappointed at how that was handled.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Bullying, and Misogyny

Minor: Cursing, Sexism, Classism, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Grief, and Infidelity

yuri_rum_raisin's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing and Sexual content

Moderate: Classism, Sexual harassment, Bullying, and Toxic relationship

Specifically uses derogatory slang during explicit sex scenes later in the book.

displacedcactus's review

emotional medium-paced

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

I decided to go ahead and give this one a chance because it was appearing on "best of" lists for the end of the year, but it was not good enough to overcome my dislike of a modern-day marriage of convenience for inheritance reasons, or the rich partner who solves all of your problems with their money. Also, there were some embarrassingly bad editing errors for a book from a major publisher.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing and Sexual content

Moderate: Death of parent

One of the characters experience a revenge porn/slut shaming sort of situation in high school and it's mentioned several times throughout the book, as the perpetrator is an antagonist in the story.

boop123's review

emotional funny 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

4.5

I want to preface first by saying that I was mainly intrigued to read this simply because the cover looks so bad. Like Wattpad bad. And whoever made this book should reevaluate the next time they make a cover because I WILL trash it. 

Anyways, I think a lot of people will disagree but I actually don’t mind how fact-paced the course of their relationship was. Although I do understand why other readers wouldn’t be into it. Since this book was described to be a “steamy” sapphic story with a fake relationship trope, I also did expect the book would have more angst and conflict to it but we didn’t get much from that. 

The conflict was also too shallow.

I did not see the need for them to break up in the last act (though I knew at some point it was coming) because there’s not much discord to work off of. The feelings of inferiority and insecurity Gemma went through really seems like a her problem and not so much as a sensible enough reason to leave Tansy. But yeah like I said since it was too shallow, it is the only one the author has to latch unto.

If y’all are not into that and want DEEP angst and trepidation, maybe this book is not for you. 

Nevertheless, I enjoyed this book, not much angst but I personally love seeing a “Character A falls first, Character B falls harder” trope. I also do think this is better than the author’s previous book I’ve read so a win for me! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Sexual content

Moderate: Alcohol and Cursing

Minor: Death of parent and Panic attacks/disorders

melissaslibraryy's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Cursing, Death of parent, and Sexual content

sian's review against another edition

lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Alcohol, Bullying, and Classism

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, and Death of parent

Minor: Grief, Emotional abuse, Cursing, and Death

stacy837's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted medium-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

4.75

Narrator is excellent at capturing character's emotions 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Sexual harassment, Bullying, Classism, Sexual content, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Cursing, Alcohol, Grief, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

Minor: Child abuse and Panic attacks/disorders

hailstorm3812's review against another edition

funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

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

4.0

This was a lot of fun. It's tropey, its sweet, a bit of spice, and a fun plot. 

I do wish the characters had kept the secret better since they kept talking in public about it and texting about it. Obviously the secret has to come out, but it would hit harder if they didn't constantly tell everyone.

Also I couldn't help thinking how great a movie this would be. It just eels so RomCom-y.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders and Sexual content

Moderate: Sexism, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Death of parent, Cursing, and Alcohol

avidreaderandgeekgirl'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? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I laughed, I cried, I enjoyed the journey. I loved the mix of humor and serious topics. It was a great book with great MCs who I loved. And some easy-to-hate villains, along with some characters in the middle. Overall a great book. I hope Teddy gets his own book as well ;) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Sexual content, Cursing, and Grief

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexism, Panic attacks/disorders, and Mental illness

Minor: Body shaming, Bullying, Gaslighting, Child abuse, Death of parent, Death, Toxic relationship, and Infidelity