Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

Forget Me Not by Alyson Derrick

8 reviews

the_kara_kara's review

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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Domestic abuse, and Homophobia

Moderate: Medical trauma

thehomiemona's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Toxic friendship, Gaslighting, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, and Racism

Minor: Alcohol

frog_appreciator's review

emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

I had a physical pain in my chest the whole time I read this. The most heart wrenching, beautiful thing. I sobbed in relief at the happy ending. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Homophobia, Domestic abuse, and Physical abuse

bg_oseman_fan's review

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.25

This book plays with the amnesia trope in a way that is very unique. I love how Stevie’s pov is written. Ultimately, some of the relationships between Stevie and her friends seem a little off, and too many characters seem really flat, and developments seem to be pushed along regardless of whether the groundwork for them had really been laid. It is a good story about the power of tenacity and love to change your world. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Violence, Gaslighting, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and Racism

Moderate: Homophobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Lesbophobia, Outing, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, and Cursing

yourssincerelyemma's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring sad 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Homophobia, Racism, and Abandonment

onehtl1ama's review

hopeful reflective medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Racism, and Homophobia

cc_shelflove's review

hopeful reflective sad 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? No

5.0

This was a good one! I definitely need to read Derrick’s debut that she coauthored with Rachael Lippincott. I was a little nervous here because let’s be real—an amnesia romance could be really, really cheesy. 🧀 However she did a great job and I didn’t even roll my eyes once! After Stevie has an accident, she cannot remember the last two years of her life, including graduating high school, realizing she might not be straight, and even planning to move across the country with her girlfriend. The entire book is about Stevie trying to find the missing pieces and Nora hoping Stevie will make her way back to her. The LGBTQ+ representation was well done and my heart was sad at Stevie’s fearfulness towards coming out. I would definitely recommend this to high school librarians and their readers. 🧡🤍🩷

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Medical content, Child abuse, and Lesbophobia

oracle_of_madness's review

5.0

This book has my heart right now.  Being gay and living in a small conservative town, an Asian mc who must deal with racism, just the attention to several big problems for many, many Americans living in this country right now. And, not just mentioning these problems but speaking about them in this story in such an honest way.  

Stevie and Nora are in love.  They have a new life waiting for them in California.   However,  all of that changes when Stevie falls into a ravine and has permanent amnesia about the past two years after she wakes up from a coma.  

So, this is a story of friendship and finding out who your true friends really are.  About finding yourself.  This is a story about falling in love, and then forgetting everything and falling back in love with a beautiful human who never gave up.  

If you can't tell... I loved every piece of this book.  It lives up to the hype and more.  It's my new moody read for when I'm feeling cloudy.  

Out April 4, 2023!

Some warnings for racism, homophobia, and domestic violence.  

Thank you, Netgalley and Publisher, for this Arc!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, and Homophobia