Reviews tagging 'Toxic friendship'

Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood

79 reviews

cutepatzie's review

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing 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

The book is good. Love the relationship and romance here. Again I appreciate showing how hard it still is to be a girl and have a career in the university and since world. I very much appreciate the way of appreciation of mental health characters go to therapy when they need to, they do not feel emberes because of that and that is such a positive thing. My only minus is this a bit cliche but still sweet and cool story is the cat saves the day. Especially when the author a couple of pages before talking about cliche moments in books and movies. But still a good book about a very amazing love story. Every girl deserves a man like Levi.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Mental illness, Cursing, Abandonment, Sexism, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Death of parent, Car accident, Gun violence, Emotional abuse, and Chronic illness

hecksbecks's review

funny inspiring lighthearted reflective tense 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

Ali Hazelwood has done it again. She got me to read another one of her cheesy STEM romance books in under 8 hours. And I love every minute of it. I would even go as far to say that this is my favorite of hers. 
The characters are likable, the interactions are real and the emotion is so well done. You FEEL Bee’s panic, her fear, her deep, deep love. The one sided Enemies-to-Lovers plot was initially what hooked me but I was glad it didn’t persist for the duration of the book. Instead

we got a satisfying meld with a he-fell-hard-she-fell-harder that tickled my fancy. AND the sex was great, so well written, not at all raunchy or distasteful. .

OMG THE TWIST!! As predictable as the book was I really couldn’t flush out the full details, I have to commend Ali for that.
Aside from being a tad predictable and the tendency that our author has to “break the illusion” by having her character say something extremely meta I really loved it. 
I had barely finished Love on The Brain and I was recommending it to my best friend. An overall enjoyable read that’d pull anyone out of a reading slump. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Gun violence, and Infidelity

Minor: Death of parent and Panic attacks/disorders

hayzey's review

emotional funny informative inspiring reflective fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Misogyny

Moderate: Stalking, Misogyny, Cursing, Sexual content, Sexism, and Gun violence

Minor: Misogyny, Gaslighting, Sexual content, Sexism, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Gun violence, Death of parent, Alcohol, Grief, Violence, and Stalking

chasingpages1's review

emotional funny informative lighthearted relaxing 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Infidelity, Sexual content, Sexism, Death of parent, Gun violence, Misogyny, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Abandonment, Toxic friendship, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Chronic illness, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Alcohol, Car accident, Violence, Cursing, Medical content, Mental illness, Pregnancy, and Bullying

leligavi'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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Misogyny

Moderate: Cursing, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

jasmineslibraryy'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

4.0

was it as good as TLH? no.
did i still have fun? yes!

i had trouble getting into this book, especially since the switch from 3rd to 1st person through me completely off guard. furthermore, bee is kinda whiny. but i LOVED her and levi. 

idc how many times ali hazelwood writes similar STEM romances - i will enjoy every single one. it is her niche and her charm, for sure.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Cursing, Alcohol, Sexual content, Sexism, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Gaslighting, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, Gun violence, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

Minor: Car accident

natafiguu's review

emotional lighthearted 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? It's complicated

3.0

definitely better than The Love Hypothesis, i feel like there couldve been more indirect characterization instead of the entire rant Levi went on

about how Bee had commitment issues and why

  but it definitely had more depth than the first. i know some people think that the fanfiction aspect is cringey but i think the science and STEM aspects definitely made up for it. the part when

Felicette attacked Guy

was kind of comicy but other than that i really liked the book and would 1000% reread :)

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Gun violence, Medical content, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Sexism, and Toxic friendship

vaguely_pink's review

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted 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

CUUUUUUUUUTE

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Sexism

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Abandonment, Cursing, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, and Misogyny

Minor: Medical content, Bullying, Chronic illness, Gun violence, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, and Alcohol

daisy1_f's review

funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted relaxing sad medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism

Moderate: Vomit, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Sexism, Panic attacks/disorders, Gaslighting, Grief, Death of parent, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Gun violence

tym_flies's review

emotional funny lighthearted relaxing fast-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

4.5

Best parts about this book are the constant references to Dr. Marie Curie (who I wrote a paper about in middle school and worshipped) and the validation of being a woman in STEM. From thereon out, you can't really go wrong. 

Get u a man as pathetically in love with you as Levi is with Bee. Get u a girl as intelligently stupid about that love as Bee is with Levi. Get you some cats to keep you both company.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Gun violence, Sexual content, and Sexism

Minor: Car accident, Toxic friendship, Suicide, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship