Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

Terms and Conditions by Lauren Asher

31 reviews

leilaroseg's review against another edition

emotional funny fast-paced

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

3.0

I've never been a romance girly, but this wasn't terrible.

I loved Cal in this book because he was SUCH A GOOD FRIEND. Declan wasn't as gross minded as Rowan was in the beginning half of book 1. So W Declan?

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Cursing

bri__'s review

challenging funny hopeful lighthearted 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? Yes

4.0

I enjoyed this one more than the last one. It got very good just before the half way point and I enjoyed the story from there. Declan Kane is a very attractive man ;))

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Cursing, Death, Bullying, Child abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Pregnancy

Minor: Animal death

abigail_moffat's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad medium-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Cursing, Sexual content, and Death of parent

Moderate: Medical content

Minor: Bullying

sierrabowers's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

Was a great addition to the first book! I really like when authors have series that are focused around different family members. This was was just as good or even better than the first, with a new perspective on Dreamland. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, Death of parent, Alcohol, Medical content, Cursing, Misogyny, Abandonment, Classism, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, and Panic attacks/disorders

gabi_w21's review against another edition

2.5

While I largely enjoyed this book more than Throttled, it, by no means, is amazing. In between Declan treating Iris abhorrently and sneering at everyone around him and crying over his treatment by his father and Iris inexplicably being attracted to him despite his vile treatment, there were moments I loved—their back-n-forth banter, the little things he did to be nice for her, CAL. But any love I had for this book is overshadowed by just how abusive Declan is to Iris; over and over he snaps at her, throws a tantrum, and anytime she pushes back, he just mentions his dead, dead and did I mention dead mom and how he's sooooo unloveable and she forgave him. Also all of his little quirks are due to said dead mom. He likes mimosa and F1? Dead mom did. He likes elephants? Dead mom did. He drives a nice car? It was his mom's. He knows about Iris's learning disability? His mom had the same one. The little dumb word game he  and iris play? He and his mom did—jesus, is there anything you enjoy/do that doesn't loop back to your Dead Mom?

You can't tell me that him buying her a greenhouse and adopting a dog for her after calling her a failure, which her abusive dad always did, is gonna make her accept his random-ass marriage proposal.

Why even make Iris Black if it adds nothing to the narrative? Iris could've been white and everything would've been the same, except she wouldn't have fallen into the “Black character has to do emotional labor for the traumatized, woe-is-me white character/love interest”. Nevermind how overworked she is. I hated Declan with a burning passion and Iris, for that matter. She never stayed angry with him, even when she had every reason to be, and each time she'd feel guilty and sorry for daring to be upset. Get mad, girlie! Don't let him pout and wobble his fucking lip and buy you plant after he hurt you so badly. I don't think I'll ever pick up anything by Lauren Asher again for the amount of bullshit in her books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Classism, Cursing, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Bullying, and Cancer

abbyh1011's review

slow-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing and Sexual content

0701mango'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

3.5

Enjoyable book with enjoyable characters. Plot was a little too much of a rollercoaster for me.

If someone did to me what Declan did to Iris in the third-act breakup I’d act the same way as Iris did but it also occurs to me that there’s no one on Declan’s side. Rowan is only sort of, and Cal does everything for Iris’s sake. Iris is the one backing away from his advances the whole time, and she doesn’t say she loves him until the very end. I think it would’ve been nice to see someone on Declan’s side for his sake. Also, based on the way Declan was acting and how he had reformed up until then, it seems a little out of character for him to have acted the way he did at Dreamland. It would’ve made more sense if there had to be a third-act breakup for Iris to be the reason.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Cursing, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Physical abuse

Minor: Terminal illness

Declan’s mother died of cancer and his father is an abusive alcohol who hit and abused him and abused his brothers growing up. Iris’s father is a deadbeat who physically abused her mother and emotionally abused her. He’s mentioned in the book but he’s not a character.

worldofv33's review against another edition

emotional funny 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Cursing, and Panic attacks/disorders

what_karla_reads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful reflective 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Minor: Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Cursing, and Violence

katierosecrane's review against another edition

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

4.75

Slow burn, but worth the wait. There was a good plot in the book that was unique and I loved the way Asher intertwined the characters in the other books. The ending is predictable, but not until like the LAST part of the book. It was the kind of predictable that was sweet but not super cheesy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Cursing, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, and Sexual content