Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Role Playing by Cathy Yardley

42 reviews

ravenk28's review against another edition

funny hopeful lighthearted 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? It's complicated

4.0

Who knew a story about two people finding each other through their love of video games would be so sweet. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Outing, and Homophobia

Moderate: Acephobia/Arophobia, Toxic relationship, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Racism, Cancer, and Death of parent

thenextbookdilemma's review

emotional funny lighthearted 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Emotional abuse, and Biphobia

Minor: Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Car accident

chelseazhao's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful slow-paced

5.0

This had so many things that I loved!
- Older characters (48 and 50)
- Geeky Gamers
- Bi/Demisexual rep
- friends to lovers
- hilarious mix-up (she thought he was 20, he thought she was 80)
- teens who felt like teens

Keep in mind that we do have some harder topics: biphobia, homophobia, mentioned death of a parent, talk of end-of-life care

I seriously loved these characters and their relationship so much. I loved how snarky and funny that they could be. And I loved the demisexual representation!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Outing, Biphobia, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Pregnancy and Death of parent

enneirda07's review

emotional funny hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.25

I enjoyed this audiobook. I appreciated the demi rep and reading about characters on the mature end of life.

Aiden has the worst family ever, so I was glad he got away from them.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia and Emotional abuse

readbykatherine's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Acephobia/Arophobia, and Outing

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Racism

aliciavalenski's review

emotional hopeful inspiring 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Biphobia, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Outing, Body shaming, and Death of parent

mighty_lizard_queen's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Outing, and Biphobia

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Racism, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Body shaming, and Cursing

Minor: Drug use, Dementia, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Car accident, Abandonment, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

callidoralblack's review

emotional funny lighthearted

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Cursing, Biphobia, and Outing

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Grief, Car accident, Child abuse, Death of parent, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexism, War, and Violence

ajalexanderreadsromance's review against another edition

funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Homophobia, and Outing

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Death of parent

Minor: Car accident, Racism, Cancer, Grief, and Acephobia/Arophobia

aliiloue's review

funny lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

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

4.0

enjoyed this much more than i thought i would. tone of voice is quite 'millenial' which made the characters read a lot younger than they were at points. side cast were all horrible people aside from maggie' son kit. 

i was very invested in maggie and aidan's relationship and once they met irl, i really enjoyed their interactions. they had each other's back and i liked maggie's give no shits attitude. aidan was indeed a cinnamon roll (although could have done without the book telling me that directly even if it was an apt description) and might be my favourite MMC in a romance this year. he also brought bi and demi rep which i wasn't expecting and enjoyed seeing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship and Homophobia

Moderate: Emotional abuse