Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Until I Get You by Claire Contreras

12 reviews

mels_reading_log's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

The roller coaster of emotions I went through while reading this book, left me dizzy (in a good way). This was not just a normal dark romance, at some parts it left me completely shocked and confused as to who the villain was, and at other parts it was so lovely and had me in tears for their love. Just wow.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Sexual harassment, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Infidelity, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Rape, Violence, Toxic relationship, and Sexual violence

Minor: Drug use, Pedophilia, Murder, and Pregnancy

sara_mb's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

So it was a random audiobook I 
started, and ended up pretty surprised how of a page turner it was. I loved the voice actor as well so it’s always a bonus. It was mysterious and tense, the chemistry of the characters was magnetic. It was dark and had some sensitive topics so check the trigger warnings. But I loved it, the end was a bit underwhelming tho

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Murder, Torture, Death of parent, Violence, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Suicide, Rape, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Abandonment, Car accident, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Stalking, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, and Emotional abuse

laurenp342's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, Child abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Death, and Stalking

maryjuana's review against another edition

dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

2.0

Dark romance my ass. This sucked :/ also it felt like two different books between the parts but I’m not sure if that was the point. 

The characters were boring but the story was okay I guess. Lost interest a couple times..

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Stalking, and Rape

Minor: Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Physical abuse, and Drug abuse

tarrareads's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🌶🌶🌶

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"𝙄𝙛 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙩𝙤𝙪𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙨 𝙝𝙚𝙧, 𝙄 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙠𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙮𝙤𝙪. 𝙄𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙁𝙡𝙞𝙧𝙩 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙝𝙚𝙧, 𝙄 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙠𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙮𝙤𝙪. 𝘿𝙤𝙣'𝙩 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙖𝙩 𝙝𝙚𝙧. 𝘿𝙤𝙣'𝙩 𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙠 𝙩𝙤 𝙝𝙚𝙧. 𝘿𝙤𝙣'𝙩 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙛𝙪𝙘𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙝𝙚𝙧."

Ok, I went into this book completely blind. All I knew was that it was dark, a hockey romance and had a shopping list of trigger warnings. Tick, tick and a big ol’ tick!! This book was fantastic. I truly felt all of the emotions from the characters. It did feel like a bit of a puzzle at times, trying to piece together what happened. The only reason I gave it 4 stars was because…

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Lachlan found Lyla aka De-lil-ah way too easy. I feel like the angst of that scenario could have been prolonged and we could have delved a little deeper into the past as well as into the three years she was MIA but overall, I thoroughly enjoyed this one.

𝙏𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙨
✨️ Hockey Romance
✨️ Dark Romance
✨️ Possessive MMC
✨️ He Falls First
✨️ Revenge
✨️ Anti Hero
✨️ Reformed Playboy
✨️ Touch Her and D!e

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Car accident, Emotional abuse, Grief, Murder, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Death, Death of parent, Child abuse, Cursing, Rape, and Stalking

kat7794's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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

Graphic: Cursing, Child abuse, Death, Murder, Blood, Grief, Physical abuse, Rape, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Stalking, and Violence

petit_biblio's review against another edition

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Death of parent, and Rape

Moderate: Car accident, Stalking, and Death

Minor: Emotional abuse, Suicide, and Physical abuse

giannareadsromance's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

Our main characters are Lachlan James Duke & Lyla James Marichal. Yes, the same middle name 🥺

Part One of Until I Get You takes place in their last semester of their respective senior years in college. Lachlan is a star hockey player, known for women falling at his feet, and never really having to try too hard, if at all, to get the girl. Until he meets Lyla one night at a party he doesn't even want to be at, and she shares the same sentiment. Lachlan is immediately drawn to Lyla, unexplainably so, and begins to chase a girl for the first time in his life.

That is until one of his teammates (who is also one of Lylas best friends) lets him know that theres more to her than meets the eye when he can't help but ask questions & want to know more about her after their first encounter. You can definitely feel the spark between them, it jumps off the pages (much to both of their attempts to deny it).

Lachlan is so incredibly caring towards Lyla in all ways, and definitely when it comes to the spice in this book. I would rate it a 3/5 🌶️, it's more about the connection they share than the overall dirtiness yanno?

The book is separated into two parts: the first centered around their last few months in college, before shit hits the fan and Lylas past comes back to haunt her,

and ruin what she has with Lachlan before it can even really get off the ground.

Part two of Until I Get You takes place

three years later.

I definitely did not see

the time jump

coming, that's for sure. But this is another book where you can't really go in depth with detail in a review without spoiling the whole thing. I will say I definitely enjoyed Part One of the book more than Part Two, hence my rating. I found the second half a little taxing to get through but overall I'm glad I read the book!

Additionally, PLEASE CHECK YOUR TRIGGERS before reading this, as there is incredibly dark content that could really affect sensitive readers. I'll list content warnings as always below, but just exercise caution.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Abandonment, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Car accident, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Murder, and Rape

cristinreads's review against another edition

emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

2.0

I think this book would have been better if the love was less possessive and the spice was less. The general storyline coild have been good in spite of the ridiculous possessive installment. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Rape, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Car accident, and Death of parent

Moderate: Suicide

haritha4may's review

slow-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Rape, Misogyny, Stalking, Murder, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Infidelity