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Binding 13 by Chloe Walsh

477 reviews

tiana_r's review against another edition

4.75

dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

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morganbcrawford's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous emotional lighthearted sad 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: No

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katharina1998's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-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

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cjw_1996's review against another edition

3.75

emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

This was a love and cringe kind of book. The first quarter really captured me and maybe this was the accents and the banter. The middle and end seemed to be never ending... But I'll judge it on its initial promise!

Highlights:
- Gibsie was funny asf
- The narrators accents made this book
- The contrast in backgrounds was exciting

Pitfalls:
- Internal monologue was getting v long winded
- Shannon never speaking the truth
- The repetition of the same story to different characters

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beebookcandle's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional funny hopeful sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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bookish_nyss's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad 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: Yes

“I once read somewhere that we mature with damage, not with age.”

I was thrown onto a rollercoaster experiencing a whirlwind of emotions. It was simultaneously heartbreaking and beautiful all at the same time.

Shannon like the river, oh how I want so many good things to happen for you and for all the pain to stop. So sweet and innocent, and yet had lived a hard life at only just 16, with the constant pain of being bullied, attacked and abused.

Johnny Kavanagh: number 13, a popular rugby star with a promising career to be drafted in the pros. Only 17 years old, Johnny is focused and determined to get what he wants.

The moment the two cross paths when Shannon transfers to Tommen, it’s an instant connection that neither can’t explain. Johnny finds out about the extreme bullying Shannon dealt with at her previous school and makes it his mission to protect her while he can.

I adored Shannon and Johnny. Their chemistry is just wholesome and they deserve to be happy. That cliffhanger had me crying and hurting. I need a happy ending for them in Keeping 13.

“Boom boom fucking boom… I’m done for.”

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cuppajo16's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted sad tense 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

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rosieraggz's review against another edition

4.25

dark emotional funny lighthearted sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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marahoward's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark emotional funny tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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cayleeconnelly's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense 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

Stupid cliffhangers. I will be needing to start Keeping 13 very soon.

Did I stay up too late several nights in a row because I couldn’t put this one down? Yes. Did this book make me laugh so hard my husband looked at me sideways? Also yes.

Did this book make me cry my eyes out? Absolutely.

I wasn’t expecting to love Johnny as much as I did. He’s everything you’d want in a protective, swoops in to save the day, MMC. But also this book is very much a case of “Caylee fell in love with the side characters” because every scene Gibsie was in was automatically a favorite. He apparently gets his story later in the series so for that alone I kinda want to keep reading. Claire is the best kind of best friend to Shannon, and I just adore both of them so much. I honestly loved all of the side/minor characters so much that even if I didn’t like the FMC or MMC I would’ve kept reading just for them 😅

Shannon has a very hard life. And that’s putting it mildly She goes through a lot of trauma before she lands at Tommen and the trauma unfortunately doesn’t stop because it’s not just the bullies at school she has to worry about. My heart aches for the insecurity she feels and the need to keep her head down and be invisible. Of course she would get noticed by (and fall for) the most visible boy at school 🙃

My biggest critique would be that the “rugby is my life” got a bit repetitive and probably could have edited some of that out. But it wasn’t a deal breaker for me. It’s a rugby romance so that was kind of to be expected.

Please check trigger warnings before picking up this series, because while I loved it… it was hard to get through some of it.

🤬 the MMC is an Irish rugby player who notably “curses like a sailor” early in the book. If you’re sensitive to colorful language this might not be the one to read.

🌶️🔥 I would say this book does contain mild-moderate spice with a bit of open door content but it’s primarily suggestive dialogue/internal monologue. As mentioned earlier, the MMC is a teenage rugby player and I do think the dialogue matches that of teenage boy locker-room talk.

Explicit scenes/chapters ⏭️

Ch 5 mentions watching explicit videos, detailed reaction

Ch 63- detailed injury & heated make out

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