Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

14 reviews

snowiceblackfruit77's review

dark funny medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Stalking, Car accident, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

laceylove's review against another edition

dark funny slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Car accident, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Panic attacks/disorders, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment

stindex's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted

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

1.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Misogyny, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Blood, Stalking, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Medical content, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

phouka's review against another edition

funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Animal death, Death, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Stalking, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

jourdanicus's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

3.25

A reread because of course I was all up in this series as a teen. Ya know, I didn't hate it this time. I'm reading through the lens of horror and it's kinda working for me. Of course it's angsty and dramatic but Bella is 17, I think we were all at least a little angsty and short-sighted around that age. Obviously I do not care for the promotion of toxic romantic relationships but I do think there's at least something to get out of this series. It's a cultural touchstone whether we like it or not.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship and Blood

Moderate: Car accident, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Medical content, Murder, and Abandonment

ellaticonstellation's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny slow-paced

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

4.0

This is fine. Sure, there are a lot of corny moments at the point of cringe, but still okay. I don't like the super long chapters; not a fan. 

Bella has a funny mind. She's opinionated, clumsy, and awkward and I love that. I also like that she reads books for fun. Oh, I also love the part where she prepares and cooks in the kitchen a lot of times.  

Edward on the other hand is toxic basically.  The horrors of the vampire life aren't mentioned that much, it might have been interesting. 

Jacob was chill and funny.✨

By the way, didn't Bella even realize that she might have liked or loved Edward because it's part of the vampire stuff? I mean, teenage hormones, I guess? But yeah, I sensed that she had a death wish. 

Poor Charlie, he had no idea.

Oh well, thanks, Stephenie❤️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Stalking, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

ehamlett's review

adventurous lighthearted medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Stalking and Abandonment

Minor: Death

stephmcoakley's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Gore, Racism, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

ecravens's review

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

grboph's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense 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

2.5

This is maybe one of the worst books I've ever read. I am legitimately unsure why my eleven-year-old self enjoyed them as much as she did. Probably for the reasons I gave it two and a half stars, which is pure entertainment value and being unintentionally hilarious at times. But seriously, I'm not sure how this book was even published. The writing is terrible, the characters are all incredibly annoying (all for completely different reasons), and Edward and Bella's relationship, which is held up as being romantic and perfect and star-crossed, is actually very toxic and abusive (one of their first ever conversations is just Edward gaslighting the hell out of Bella and it made me quite uncomfortable). This book (and the series) makes an excellent hate-read, and I'm definitely going to be finishing out the series at some point soon. The only people I think I'd seriously recommend this book to are eleven-year-old girls or someone who I really want to confuse. However, I'd recommend it to anybody else looking for something comically bad and cringey to read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gore, Toxic relationship, Blood, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, Violence, Medical content, and Car accident

Minor: Death, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Abandonment