Reviews tagging 'Toxic friendship'

Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar

310 reviews

marena02's review against another edition

emotional funny informative 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Biphobia, Cursing, Abandonment, Gaslighting, Islamophobia, Racism, and Toxic friendship

torrentsofhayl's review against another edition

emotional funny 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Cursing and Colonisation

koplomps's review against another edition

emotional inspiring lighthearted 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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Biphobia, Bullying, Islamophobia, and Racism

Moderate: Abandonment and Gaslighting

rosymilk's review against another edition

hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Toxic friendship

Minor: Biphobia, Islamophobia, and Lesbophobia

sohva's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted 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

4.5

A fun YA romance. Doesn't do anything super groundbreaking, but what it does, it does well. I really enjoyed this book.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Islamophobia, Biphobia, Toxic friendship, and Racism

aviery's review against another edition

funny lighthearted 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Homophobia, Toxic friendship, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Cursing, Gaslighting, Bullying, Islamophobia, and Racism

skiis's review against another edition

emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-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? It's complicated

3.75

you know the book good when you wanna jump inside it and beat somebody up

i hate aisling and dee, i love ishu & nik's dynamic, watching hani get run over (toxic friendship wise) so many times and not being able to do something frustrated me, but then again i couldn't be mad at her because it was realistic

i feel like in the beginning, it was weird because the book started like i already knew these characters. it was jus a bit weird to me but by chap 5 i finally caught on

towards the part where hani didn't have an answer to whether or not she believed ishu, (killed me inside, yes, bc wtf girl) that's where it started to get a liiiittle slow but i guess it was to update us on head girl and the election, but we should've been updated while the book was going on yk? also plot twist when it turned out to be 6 weeks of this entire book??? it felt LONGER omg.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Biphobia, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Islamophobia, Racism, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Cursing, Emotional abuse, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Eating disorder and Alcohol

iheartb00ks's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad 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

SUPER CUTE!!!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Biphobia, Homophobia, Islamophobia, Bullying, Racism, and Toxic friendship

dojipengin's review against another edition

emotional hopeful tense medium-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Islamophobia, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Bullying, Outing, Abandonment, Cursing, and Racism

Minor: Alcohol

_galilla_'s review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

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

4.0

It was a cute queer fake dating story, but it got a little slow in the middle and the amount of times “heaves a sigh” was said was said more than enough. But otherwise, it was nice to see the character growth and the realism of Hani and Ishu’s problems.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gaslighting, Islamophobia, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Biphobia, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Racism