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memoirsofabooklover's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, and Grief
Moderate: Cancer, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Terminal illness, Violence, Police brutality, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Infertility, Blood, Murder, Pregnancy, and Alcohol
cmab's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Alcoholism, Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol
Moderate: Addiction, Gun violence, and Infertility
katiejohns's review against another edition
- 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
4.0
Graphic: Cursing, Domestic abuse, Sexual content, Grief, and Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Drug abuse and Gun violence
livlovread's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Child abuse and Domestic abuse
ktmcd26's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
I really liked both Slone and Lucien, so I was always rooting for them. However, they didn’t always make it easy. There were some frustrating and unreasonable decisions, but they were dealing with different serious emotional and mental damage, so not necessarily unexpected.
I do wish their story had very different pacing. Like many rom-com books everything is ridiculously rushed at the end of the story. Why o why can’t people in this town date? Why must they be engaged?
As always with these books, the crime sub-plot really didn’t make sense. Why were those people even remotely involved in these crimes? How in the world was that the resolution? I don’t know, so I am just kind of ignoring it.
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Sexual content, and Murder
coffeekitaab's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Moderate: Bullying, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Violence, Police brutality, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail
saramariebt's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Domestic abuse
Moderate: Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Gun violence
sami_leigh's review against another edition
- 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
🌶️🌶️🌶️.5/5
It was strange, having a secret with the boy I’d once loved and now sharing it with the man I couldn’t stand.
I should be the one sitting across the table from her. I should be the one taking her home, waking up next to her. Reading what she was reading. Yelling at the evil cat. It should be me in her life.
And for the first time in my life, I felt like the hero instead of the villain.
“Loving you has been a touchstone for more than half my life.”
🌸 First person dual POV
🌸 Enemies to lovers
🌸 Second chance / childhood friends
🌸 Both have secrets & stories behind their mutual hatred
🌸 Representation of working through trauma and anxiety associated growing up in domestic abuse
🌸 Nickname 🥹
🌸 Found family
🌸 Banter 👌🏻
🌸 Tension & spice 🥵
🌸 Small town vibes
🌸 ‘Touch her and I’ll kill you’ vibes
🌸 He. Falls. HARD.
🌸 Well established secondary characters; Knox & Daisy (Book 1), Waylay (Book 1), Nash & Lina (Book 2), Stef & Jeremiah, Emry, Maeve.
🌸 MC growth; overcoming past trauma, trust, risking a relationships & family, priorities, communication, self worth.
🌸 Epilogue
🌸 Bonus epilogue 10 years later
Available in audiobook, ebook and paperback.
⚠️ Violence (moderate), gun violence (explicit), death of a parent (past), death, blood (minor), parental abandonment, medical trauma (moderate), cancer (past, not MC), domestic abuse (past).
Graphic: Gun violence and Sexual content
Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Violence, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Abandonment
Minor: Cancer and Blood
lizzie_b99's review against another edition
- 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
4.25
I do wish Score would expand upon Jeremiah and Stef's relationship and Maeve and
Graphic: Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Cancer, Gun violence, Terminal illness, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol
Minor: Alcoholism and Pregnancy
amandaredinger's review against another edition
- 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
4.25
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Violence, and Murder
Minor: Infertility