Reviews tagging 'Grief'

The Fiancée Farce by Alexandria Bellefleur

18 reviews

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

youbelongwithmira'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? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Grief, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, and Bullying

maika's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted sad

• 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Abandonment, Death of parent, and Sexual assault

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

beesin03's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Bullying, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Alcohol

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.

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

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

frantically's review against another edition

emotional funny 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? No

4.0

This read like a soap opera-script and I LOVED IT. Is it slightly ridiculous and over top? Yes. But it's fun! So much fun! There's no homophobia, guys!! The smut scenes were good!!! 

Jemma & Tamsin were so cute together and I could actually believe them falling for each other (I have very low standards for romance). There was a bit too much of "Oh, you're not really my type but now you suddenly are" from Jemma's side but it stopped after some time and turned into "Hey, let's make this marriage real!!" p quickly.

Also! The embracing of reading romance from both MCs <3 Beautiful.

Would definitely recommend if you're looking for a good, (mostly) lighthearted sapphic fake relationship/marriage.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Grief and Death of parent

Minor: Infidelity and Bullying