Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Tryst Six Venom by Penelope Douglas

16 reviews

becca303's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense 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: Alcohol, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Grief, Homophobia, Cancer, Chronic illness, Classism, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Lesbophobia, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Adult/minor relationship, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Outing, and Sexism

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Chronic illness, Classism, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Violence, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Abortion, Cancer, Child death, Sexual assault, Sexism, Rape, Racism, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Outing, Misogyny, Mental illness, Lesbophobia, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, Grief, Hate crime, Fatphobia, Emotional abuse, Drug use, and Eating disorder

adriana_azamar20's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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? Yes

5.0

HOLY SHIIIIIIT OMGGGGG!!! I’m in love!!! This book 😫✋🏼 10/10. The story, the build up, the fucking waiting, the love and heartache, the ENDING, everything was perfect 🥳🥰😍😫🥹🏳️‍🌈✨😎

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Classism, Body shaming, Bullying, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, and Sexism

Moderate: Grief, Sexual content, and Infidelity

Minor: Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, Violence, Toxic friendship, Death, and Adult/minor relationship

thebookishb's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Kidnapping, Bullying, Violence, Homophobia, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Cancer, Child death, Body shaming, Death of parent, Infidelity, Suicide, Terminal illness, Mental illness, and Grief

emilycruz1016's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Child abuse, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Toxic friendship, Death, Domestic abuse, Grief, Hate crime, Lesbophobia, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Blood, Drug use, Sexual content, Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Chronic illness, Cursing, Gaslighting, Homophobia, and Infidelity

Moderate: Kidnapping, Misogyny, and Sexual violence

Minor: Suicide, Abortion, and Adult/minor relationship

riella_reads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark medium-paced

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

4.75

 This was SO CLOSE to being a full 5, but there was a small section in the middle that seemed to drag on. I don't normally enjoy the enemies to lovers trope but I actually really enjoyed the mean girls premise. Like Clay was SO MEAN. Some of the things she did to Olivia, don't know how she could of got past that. The chemistry was there, though, and I routed for them in the end. The Jaeger family is so fun, they reminded me of a mix between the Shameless family and the On the Block crowd. Like Oscar Diaz is the perfect Macon in my opinion and I would love to see a book written about him, or any of the other Jaeger brothers! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Biphobia, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Homophobia, and Kidnapping

annie_peterson's review against another edition

2.0

I was excited to read a wlw novel and had heard great things about this one. After finishing this book, though, I can say for certain that I really didn’t enjoy it for a variety of reasons. 1) I rarely like the enemies to lovers trope but I especially hate the bullies to lovers trope. How can someone be so beyond horrible to another person yet also like them. And even more, how does the bullying victim like them back after all they’ve put them through?! I don’t understand it. 2) I absolutely LOATHE the harmful trope that violent homophobes are secretly gay. Internalized homophobia isn’t an excuse to be horrible to other people. 3) I didn’t like the bits of fat phobia and negativity around food and bodies sprinkled throughout. While this book didn’t focus on eating disorders, there was enough of a disordered eating undertone that was bothersome.

 Some small qualms include 1) I don’t understand why, in so many wlw novels, one of the female leads always has a masculine name. While I know that’s not inherently a problem, I feel like it always reinforces a binary in relationships. 2) quite a few side characters had odd names that I didn’t know how to pronounce. This could just be my fault but I names like Krisjen and Macon bothered me the entire time. 3) I feel like this book could’ve been 100 pages shorter and it would’ve been much better, though I don’t know if that would really change my overall opinion of the story. 

Overall, I wouldn’t recommend this to anyone and I easily could’ve gone without reading it, but I did finish it. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Body shaming, and Sexual assault

goddaniiit's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

In the beginning I had to push myself to continue reading (due to the occasional use of slurs), but after that it was, mostly, smooth sailing. I did feel like it lacked exposition towards the end with the amount of time-skips in between major plot points.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Bullying, and Misogyny

Moderate: Violence, Sexual harassment, Racial slurs, Racism, and Sexual assault

Minor: Child death, Infidelity, Medical content, and Death of parent

jurizprudence's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

4.25

olivia jaeger i'd never leave you in the rain

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Sexual content, Violence, and Body shaming

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Toxic friendship, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Religious bigotry, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Death of parent, Grief, Sexism, Classism, Infidelity, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Abortion, Alcohol, Cancer, Child death, and Outing

i miss them already

marinagray's review against another edition

emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Blood, Cancer, Child death, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Incest, Infidelity, Medical content, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Terminal illness, Violence, and Vomit

acelodie's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, and Sexual content

Moderate: Abandonment, Death of parent, Mental illness, and Suicide