Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

A ​lányok, aki vagyok by Tess Sharpe

47 reviews

holliesatchell's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense 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: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Violence, Murder, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, and Cursing

Moderate: Car accident, Death, Medical content, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Rape, and Sexual assault

Minor: Vomit

ladyfrecklles's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense fast-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

4.0

it took a while for me to really get into the story because it reads a bit like a person trying to be deeper than they are. once you realize what the main character has actually been through it seems less arrogant and more hardened by circumstance. i want to say it was a fun read, but it was kind of dark. overall it kept me interested!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Violence, and Child abuse

Moderate: Sexual assault, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Cursing

novelwyrm's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Ableism, Abortion, Deadnaming, Gaslighting, Grief, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Domestic abuse, Death, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Chronic illness, Cursing, Gun violence, Mental illness, Sexual content, Violence, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual harassment, and Toxic relationship

bri__'s review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Violence, and Gun violence

Moderate: Pedophilia

readingthroughinfinity's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny tense fast-paced

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

4.5

This book. THIS BOOK. This book makes me think I should read more thrillers. What a top tier piece of fiction. The plot was clever and exceptionally engaging, and Nora was a brilliant, compelling main character. I loved her relationship with Iris and her friendship with Wes, and their scenes together made the book so fun and emotional in equal measures. I'm going to need 3-5 business days to process how epic this was.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Emotional abuse, Murder, Violence, Child abuse, and Death

ravenreyess's review against another edition

emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, and Violence

Moderate: Body horror, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Vomit

Minor: Biphobia, Body horror, Cursing, Death of parent, Drug use, Murder, Pedophilia, Vomit, and Abortion

kell_xavi's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

3.0

A botched bank robbery turns into a hostage situation with Nora, her best friend (Wes), and her girlfriend (Iris) among the captured, which leads Nora to relive years of hiding and trauma in her childhood with a con artist (and psychologically abusive) mother. 

The pull of this book is not the past, but the healing process. Iris, Lee, and Wes are strong supports to Nora, and there are complex bonds across love, trust, lies, and truths that wind and unwind and twine together in the course of the book. There’s a a sense of reciprocity and symbiosis that Sharpe, the characters, and I, too, valued. 

The first two thirds spool out at a good pace as the three friends try to form a plan against two cruel men with guns and Nora recalls the first few long-cons she was bait in. The last third is harder to read and more dramatic as the violence increases in both timelines, and though I continued to care about the emotional core, the story is angsty and cluttered here in a way I didn’t like as much, though it resolved okay. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Violence, and Child abuse

Moderate: Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Murder, and Vomit

Minor: Abortion, Cursing, Infidelity, and Gaslighting

puhlowmuh's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective tense 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Violence, and Gun violence

capybooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

I found parts of this novel slow to read, but the more I read, the more I enjoyed it. I wish the character's backstory came first, instead of alternating between the present-day chapters, because I found it hard to keep track of what each girl's story was. 

Despite all of this, I really liked a lot of aspects of this story; the LGBTQ+ representation, endometriosis awareness, and an intriguing protagonist. The opening sentence was gripping too!

A great read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Ableism, Abortion, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, and Alcohol

mallorycestone's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective fast-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

4.25

4.5** I loved this book. It was interesting, twisted and so unique. The only thing I didn’t like was the whole 50 pages of resolution but honestly it wasn’t bad because I already had come to love the characters so much. I wish this was a series or I could read more books about these characters. I did find that some of the flashback chapters were a bit unnecessary, but I enjoyed them nonetheless. It was super entertaining!! Really excited to see what they do with the movie :))

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Blood, Emotional abuse, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Cursing, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Violence, Medical trauma, and Rape

Minor: Abortion