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The Finish Line by Kate Stewart

29 reviews

sienasummerrreads's review

challenging emotional hopeful mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.0

Where do I start with this?! I enjoyed the story and appreciate the concept. There were some scenes and characters I loved. For example the Date night scene that the MMC tried to give the FMC. Also the FMC mother and the MMC bonding and forgiveness chapters but trust me there are more. Unfortunately this fell a little flat for me. I don’t think personally I can get over what the MMC did to her branding and also the manipulation. In my head I believe the FMC’s end game was with a character in Exodus. So for me as the book was based around the MMC healing and moving forward I just wasn’t connecting with the MMC and couldn’t really care for him. 

I’m devastated I couldn’t relate to this series like everyone else did but to me the Ravenhood Trilogy is overhyped. But shout out the audiobook narrators as it was a fantastic listen.  

If you love:

🔹Brotherhood & Business 

🔹Age Gap

🔹Estranged Families 

🔹Lies & Deception 

🔹Emotional 

🔹Healing Journey 

Genre/Type: Mysterious Romance Suspense 18+

APK: Physical / Audiobook

Pages: 450

Rating: 🌟🌟🌟

Spice: 🌶️.5 

Series or Stand Alone: Series - Final Book in the Ravenhood Trilogy 

Tropes or Themes: Mysterious, Enemies To Lovers, Age Gap, Suspenseful, Emotional. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Alcohol, and Sexual content

Moderate: Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

aalysad's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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

CECELIA YOU BAD BITCHHHHH! You outsmarted and beat the master at his own game! This whole series was incredible and I was not expecting that ending. I think this was my favorite of the series, dual POV with Tobias and Cecelia, that’s how it should have been for all of the books in my opinion. I am confused on why the epilogue with Sean was the same in both exodus and the finish line though? I loved these books so much I had to buy the physical copies of them. 💕

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Gun violence, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Mental illness, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Car accident

jfb0622's review

adventurous dark emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, and Gun violence

Moderate: Grief and Toxic relationship

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis and Mental illness

ellielot's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I don’t think I will ever get over these books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death of parent, and Gun violence

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders

hq_reads's review against another edition

dark emotional slow-paced

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

1.5

This book was not needed AT ALL. I get there were some unanswered questions after Exodus, but this book did not need to be this long. I had a lot of issues with it:

• Miscommunication: this was so frustrating and boring to read about. Cecelia and Tobias just kept going round in circles having the same argument over and over 😴
• Cecelia: she is still incredibly immature.
• Tobias: his personality literally changed just to make this “plot” work. I would have liked to see a story where he comes back to protect Cecelia against a threat and we get another enemies to lovers situation. His constant confessions got boring and just seemed so out of character.
• The plot: it was boring, unbelievable, incredibly cheesy…
• The spice was okay, but it should have been better considering the plot was lacking.
• Logic and timelines: I went back and tried to track Dom and Tobias’ ages and it kept varying as to whether he was 4 years older or “almost 6” years older. Also just the sheer premise of the Exodus company and the direction Tobias and Tyler take it by the end of the book was so ridiculous. Would never happen.

Didn’t mean to 💩 all over this book but I was so disappointed because I really enjoyed Exodus, especially Tobias and we didn’t get Tobias in this books. 

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, and Gun violence

amanda_reads13's review against another edition

emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.5

I enjoyed the dual POV of this book and the growth of Cecilia, but felt this book was too long and could have been cut back significantly. I did enjoy the twist near the end showing how badass Cecilia is. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Gaslighting, Murder, Gun violence, Grief, Death, Mental illness, and Toxic relationship

ecravens's review

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense slow-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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death of parent, Sexual content, Violence, Body horror, Death, Grief, Gun violence, Alcohol, Car accident, Cursing, Abandonment, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Stalking, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

kerttuli's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Sexual content, and Death

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, and Torture

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide attempt, and Mental illness

rachelmichelson's review

adventurous medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, and Mental illness

Moderate: Fatphobia

megbooks02's review

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

2.0

The Ravenhood series was definitely interesting. I thought the writing style was kind of poor, the books lacked character growth, and the storyline was often confusing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence and Sexual assault