Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

The Fiancée Farce by Alexandria Bellefleur

14 reviews

greendog95'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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexism, Bullying, Emotional abuse, and Misogyny

Minor: Death of parent and Alcohol

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

the_lesbrarian's review against another edition

emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content and Bullying

Minor: Misogyny, Gaslighting, Cancer, Death of parent, Sexual assault, and Infidelity

smleeth93's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol

Moderate: Toxic relationship

Minor: Misogyny, Grief, Vomit, Sexual harassment, and Pregnancy

val_theburrowofstories's review against another edition

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

3.0

You don’t understand how SAD I am that my last sapphic readings have been a 3 ⭐ and in some cases a disappointment, is it because I’m a fantasy girly and they were contemporary? am I the problem? lol. But yeah from the very beginning this felt like a 3 star book.

This book was a bit funny to me in the beginning because I imagined myself in the main character’s situation but applied to me, for example if I say I’m dating Harry Styles and then oh surprise! He is in the same room as me and tells my family he’s really dating me and not only that but we’re about to get married 💀

Things I liked: 

• I really liked that this was a dual pov and we could read what was going on in their heads so it wasn’t just from one and then we would get it all wrong, we knew what each girl was thinking and understand better their decisions / actions.
•  Thank God I finally found a contemporary romance book where the characters TALK, they communicate like ADULTS, but then that was ruined by the end… 
•  I really liked seeing them together as friends and then as a couple because we saw how their relationship progressed.

Things I disliked:

• I don’t like insta love and this felt a little bit like that because Gemma kept repeating how Tansey isn’t her type at all and yet could not stop thinking about how pretty she is, and of course Tansey was one of those girls who keeps thinking she’s not pretty.
•  I wish we saw a little bit more of their relationship with their friends instead of their shitty families.
•  This book had my blood boiling and wishing this was a fantasy book so I could see the two assholes getting tortured after what they did, but especially that guy, ugh, so infuriating.  

Anyways, this had a happy ending because of course everything is fixed in the last chapter (not that I’m mad about it, honestly if they didn’t give me that happy ending after making me so angry I would've rated this even lower)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Sexual content, Misogyny, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Grief, Toxic relationship, Bullying, and Alcohol

Listing the trigger warnings and explaining them on how they happen in the book, if anyone is interested to know before reading this book:

Sexual content: There's a couple of sexual scenes between the main characters.

Sexual harassment / Bullying / Toxic relationship: These three go tight together. One of the main characters was in a relationship with this guy in high school, and this guy took pictures of her naked and shared them with the whole school.

Death of parent / Grief: One of the main characters lost her parents years ago but she's still grieving.

Misogyny: I strongly believe the reason why this rich family didn't want her to get the company is just because she's a woman.

Alcohol: Near the very end one of the main characters gets very drunk.

lady_valhella's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Death of parent, Bullying, Emotional abuse, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Misogyny, Death of parent, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, and Alcohol

About the SA content

a 16 year old is taken advantage of after the recent loss of her mother followed by the even more recent loss of her father. She just moved to a new school, her step-sister and step-cousin treat her poorly and a rich senior boy who all the girls swoon over takes an interest in her. Tells her sweet things, takes her to romantic fancy places but says it all must be kept SECRET. After he does all “the work” she trusts him enough to go all the way. He convinces her to let him take pics which he promplty shares with the entire school. The rich white boy succeeds in only getting a slap on the wrist while the grief stricken girl is now labeled all of the horrible things.

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

3frenchtoast's review against another edition

emotional hopeful lighthearted slow-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Classism and Emotional abuse

Minor: Misogyny and Death of parent

triple_m's review

medium-paced

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

3.75

A really cute read. I heard mixed things about this book so I went in with low expectations, but was pleasantly surprised. It’s not tonally dissimilar to Written in the Stars, which I also liked. 

Was this book cheesey and cliche? Yeah, of course. But sometimes that’s the exact book you want to read! 

Gemma and Tansy are cute and do work well together as a couple. The falling in love was pretty instant and fast paced. I don’t think we got enough dialogue or internal monologue to really understand why Gemma changes her mind on long term relationships other than she likes Tansy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Death of parent, and Sexual content

Moderate: Bullying, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexual harassment

unicornofthesea'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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Alcohol, Bullying, Classism, Grief, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Death of parent