Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

After We Fell by Anna Todd

10 reviews

planetshelf's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective tense medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Addiction, Alcohol, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Blood, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Grief, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Stalking, Infertility, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Vomit

Minor: Child abuse and Pregnancy

bookswstella's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad 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

Oh lord, what a book!! 

THIS freaking book?! It’s SO good🥹🥹

The three weeks I spent reading on this book was nothing but amazing. Anna really has a great way with words🤌🤌

First of all, I love the writing and the story is so good even tho it’s different! (in an amazing way ofc 🤌🤌)

This book (and the whole serie) is such a rollercoaster, it’s emotional damage and has the absolute BEST plot twists!

Anna Todd is SO good at plot twists, I got so freaking surprised by most of them, my face expressions were like this😱😯 I can tell you that I did the famous mouth slap so many times during this book, especially through all of the twists but also when it comes to the spice🔥🔥

I never thought that Steph would betray Tessa like that. I got so angry at her I started to cry, like literally, she got me so pissed off!! I didn’t think that Steph lyed to Tessa for the entire time of their “friendship”. I knew she wasn’t the best person for Tessa to hang out with but I didn’t think she would go that far.

And then there’s the twist at the end

The characters are so well described and I feel so connected to so many of them. I love Landon, Karen and Kim. I’m not sure wether I love or hate Hardin, probably both, but I am really proud over him for trying so hard. Tessa is a little too forgiving but I still love her. Tessa and Hardin probably has one of the most toxic relationship in history of book pairs but still, I cannot not ship them with each other. They have so much chemistry 👩‍🍳🤌

This book made me feel so much and so strongly, I felt happy and angry and everything in between. It even made me cry out of anger🙈🙈 

I love that a book can make me feel this much while reading, a book that makes me feel as much this book made me feel is most likely a five star from me💫💫

The only words I could say in the end was “oh my god” other than that, I was totally speechless.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Blood, Death of parent, Violence, Emotional abuse, and Toxic friendship

cait's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Infidelity, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Violence

grilledchiz's review against another edition

emotional hopeful 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Toxic relationship, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Death of parent

kyarabereading's review

dark emotional funny sad tense slow-paced

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

1.0

I read this book series twice in my life: Once as a One-Direction-obsessed preteen and then again when the After movie came out and I wanted to remember what the original book series was like. I read them on Wattpad, so I'm talking ORIGINAL original (mainly because I would not spend my money on this trash). I have a million and one reasons why I don't like this book series, but I don't want to go through them all right now or this would be a very long review. 

I reread this series purely for the nostalgia, and I did not enjoy most of it. Yes, at times the characters were loveable and the storylines were interesting. But the series is riddled with bad writing, odd pacing, plot holes, repetitive storylines, etc. It's really not worth reading. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Grief, Infertility, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Violence, Death of parent, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Blood, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Sexism, Sexual content, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Car accident and Vomit

Minor: Pregnancy

mllewellyn's review against another edition

emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Addiction, Sexual content, Violence, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Abandonment

moonys's review

stopped in like chapter 22 or something.. maybe more maybe less. the reason is as obvious as the 0,25 star i would give this book 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Toxic relationship

shanxo18's review

dark emotional tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

I went into this book, hoping that it would be a little more light than the last, and I was so wrong. I thought it started off promising the toxic character seemed to be taking a break and then it just went further and further and further into what can only be described as a mess. There are many trigger warnings I wish I knew prior because they really were intense. However, if I put all that aside I still just didn't like the book as a whole. there were some enjoyable characters, I liked Trevor, Zed, Kimberley, and even Richard. I think although Richard's story is a sad one that I think the representation is needed for that topic. But I overall began to really dislike the writing and the main characters. for instance, there are a lot of references to other women in the book, but they are always put down as less than Tessa (heroine) that i just thought was patronizing and distasteful. overall i didn't hate the book, i just didnt enjoy it and wouldn't recomment

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Addiction and Alcoholism

carlyjohnson's review

dark emotional reflective 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

3.0

This was way better than books one and two. While the toxic relationship between Tessa and Hardin is still super infuriating, it seems like there truly is hope for change. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Drug abuse, Sexual content, and Alcoholism

cinzuxatur's review

challenging tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Alcoholism and Drug abuse