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Things We Left Behind by Lucy Score

12 reviews

cutepatzie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad 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

This book will show how hard is to break the circle of abuse. And how sometimes things can get complicated. And how grief is so hard. How can completely change the way we look at the world. And how two broken people either will collect them fully together or will completely destroyed more. This I think the best on from the entired series. And even some of the things I did not like like the sorry of women being in jail. But tat not change my opinion how much I like Sloan and Lucifer together. Great book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Death of parent, Death, Emotional abuse, Cursing, Murder, Physical abuse, Grief, Police brutality, Addiction, Domestic abuse, Chronic illness, Child abuse, Mental illness, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Cancer, Infertility, and Terminal illness

readyforit's review against another edition

dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious 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

5⭐️3🌶️ (several more spicy scenes than previous books and more detailed, explicit open-door)
I feel sorry for the people who gave up during the second book because this one was 🤌🏼 chef’s kiss! God I am so glad we got the slow burn and mystery of Sloane and Lucian in the previous 2 books because I was already foaming at the mouth for their story before I even started it. 

The story picks up after sloane’s dad passes from cancer, and her mom asks if she and Lucian can finally put their feud aside and get to a civil place. You get a lot of witty banter and immature fights since they bring out the teenager in each other. Eventually they try to call a truce, and when that doesn’t pan out, Lucian suggests a one night stand to get each other out of their systems. The only problem is they can’t stay away from each other. When sloane starts receiving threats, Lucian is convinced Anthony Hugo is after her because they’re involved and everything he ever loved got taken away from him. There is a short and minor

third-act breakup

but it makes sense for the characters and the plot. It wasn’t dragged out like it was in book 1. 

When more threats are made on sloane’s life, Lucian realizes he can’t live without her and just decides they’re in a relationship now lmao. I’m not going to lie the 180 from trying to get over her for her own safety to never letting her out of his sight again and finally making his obsession known was both funny and welcome. Normally the roles are reversed. Lucian is by far my favorite MMC of the series. He is constantly saying “tell me what you need” and “I’ll fix it”. He literally built his empire so she would think highly of him. He would commit murder or buy her a castle if she asked. He’s known her so long he can often read her thoughts just from her facial expression. He’s definitely one of the book boyfriends that stays with you. And the spice in this book is the best out of the three. I’ll just say that Lucian is definitely talks you through it.

Sloane is probably my favorite FMC of the series also. She has the funniest one-liners and knows exactly what she wants out of life and isn’t afraid to work hard to make it happen. I wish I could be part of her adult book club for real🥲

This book also gave a plot twist that I did not see coming! I love when stories surprise me. I’m so sad to have to leave knockemout but I’ve decided I probably will come back to this series in the future, maybe even just this book on its own. I will miss all of the characters and their quirks. I don’t give 5 stars lightly but this was just the perfect wrap up to this series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Sexual content, Violence, and Gun violence

Moderate: Alcohol, Child abuse, Cancer, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Murder, and Pregnancy

Minor: Death, Addiction, and Infertility

Forced institutionalization is regarding Lucien’s time in jail and

a woman who was wrongfully convicted and whose case is a large part of the story, but not graphic details

katharina90's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

3.5

By far my favorite in the series. I'm a sucker for enemies to lovers so Sloane and Lucian were intriguing from book one.

It's still a cheesy, over the top Knockemout novel but it felt like the plot and characters had more substance and the writing was improved. This book was steamier too.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Sexual content

Moderate: Death of parent, Gun violence, and Grief

Minor: Addiction

ninaleithner's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted 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

5.0

My favorite one of the series. I loved learning about the history of Lucien and Sloane. The spicy scenes were 🌶️🌶️🌶️. I was totally sucked into the story and the grumpy-sunshine trope between Sloane and Lucien. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Alcoholism, Addiction, Cancer, and Death of parent

emily521's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Sexual content, Addiction, Death of parent, and Cursing

folded_between_pages_of_books's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Cursing, Addiction, Cancer, Abandonment, Child abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, and Sexual content

ecravens's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective 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: Abandonment, Addiction, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Child abuse, Death of parent, Death, Grief, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Blood, Bullying, Cursing, Gun violence, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Terminal illness

memoirsofabooklover's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful mysterious 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

5.0

My most anticipated read/release of the year and it did not disappoint. It was the perfect ending to the series and my new favourite book. I loved the first two books but the tension and torrid-pasts of Lucian and Sloane had been building for 1100 pages or so and I couldn’t wait to delve into their characters. I loved that we got some chapters set in the past (which differs from the previous two books where the mcs didn’t have a past with each other) and as usual, I loved that the chapters flitted between both mcs so you get both of their perspectives. Lucy wrote their backstory perfectly, it was heart-wrenching and felt like a valid enough reason to make them true childhood friends-to enemies-to lovers, but it didn’t make the characters irredeemable. Their history, present, and character growth in this book were incredible to read, would recommend it to everyone. Perfection! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Grief, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and Sexual content

Moderate: Police brutality, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Violence, Cancer, Death, Death of parent, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Terminal illness

Minor: Infertility, Murder, Pregnancy, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Blood

cmab's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted relaxing 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

My favourite of the three!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Physical abuse, Murder, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Grief, Death of parent, Blood, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Cancer, Terminal illness, and Death

Moderate: Addiction, Infertility, and Gun violence

bergha1998's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted sad 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

4.25

Wow, what a great book. I’m a sucker for friends to enemies to lovers, and both Sloane and Lucien were great characters in the last two books. They absolutely brought it as main characters! And for vanilla sex, that shit was spicy! I’m obsessed. 

Dark Romance, Friends to Enemies to Lovers, Lots of Trauma, 3 3/4 🔥

“You can’t just keep putting your emotions in a box with a lid and expecting them to stay there. That’s not what feelings do.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Physical abuse, Cancer, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Alcoholism, Bullying, Death, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Animal death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Addiction, Blood, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual content