Reviews tagging 'Grief'

The Holiday Trap by Roan Parrish

6 reviews

relin's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Alcohol, Grief, Dementia, Infidelity, and Outing

greatestheights'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
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Grief

annahamburger's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Cursing

Moderate: Dementia, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Grief, and Infidelity

Minor: Homophobia, Vomit, Transphobia, Racism, Antisemitism, Child abuse, and Terminal illness

stacy837's review

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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Cursing, Drug use, Alcohol, Sexual content, Infidelity, and Dementia

Minor: Toxic relationship and Bullying

bencaroline's review

lighthearted

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

2.5

(note: I wrote up a whole thing and then somehow deleted it without saving, so this is an extremely lackluster, months-later attempt at a review)

God, I wanted to love this book so bad! The Holiday but gay, and in novel form?? Sign me up! 

Unfortunately, it missed the mark for me in the pathos department. It’s as if the stakes were told, but not shown nearly enough. And the whole thing has an undercurrent of pro-default-capitalism that I hate. Aside from the romantic storylines, each of our two protagonists has sort of a B-plot wherein they help people... be entrepreneurs, I guess? I'm all for the creative endeavors but there’s something about it where they are trying to Make Profits and somehow those methods endear them to a community more than anything else they do.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol and Sexual content

Moderate: Dementia

Minor: Drug use, Grief, and Homophobia

ladythana's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Dementia, Toxic relationship, and Infidelity

Minor: Drug use, Mental illness, Homophobia, Transphobia, Religious bigotry, and Lesbophobia