Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Daisy Haites by Jessa Hastings

20 reviews

angeliquescollection's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This is like 5+ stars. 

I’ve been reading this through a recent breakup so it hit waaay harder. So many quotes I resonated with. So much emotion I was experiencing in my real life. I felt Daisy’s pain. I’m living it.
This book broke me but honestly I’m happy it did. I think I needed it in a way. 

I think in every Daisy pov, I shed a tear or just completely bawled my eyes out. And Christian… poor Christian. 

Omg Julian. I have to see what happens next. I’m going to take a little break to mend my little heart lol but these characters, I feel in my soul. 

I would say I like the Daisy Haites side of it all over Magnolia Parks but I love the whole group still. 

The ending tore me to pieces though.

I wanted Daisy and Christian to end up together so badly. But life happens, and it could be right person wrong time. And Daisy deserves normalcy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Sexual content, Alcohol, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Murder and Alcoholism

Minor: Kidnapping, Drug use, Infidelity, and Panic attacks/disorders

jelkebooks's review

dark 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

I did enjoy Magnolia Parks, but it was just a bit too toxic for me, and I absolutely despised BJ. However, I was still really curious about Daisy & Christian, so I was still hyped to read this book. I'm very glad to report that hype was justified as I enjoyed this so much more than book one. 
I mean, Daisy and Christian were still extremely disfunctional, don't get me wrong. They still aren't a relationship I would ever root for in real life. However, why I liked their relationship more than Magnolia and BJ's is because it felt like they actually like each other. With Magnolia and BJ, yeah it was obvious they love each other, but the way they hurt each other constantly felt like they didn't even like each other. Christian and Daisy just had other issues going on, and difficult lives and situations that lead to them being as disfunctional as they are, but it is so clear they love and like each other the entire way through. It made everything about this so much more of an enjoyable read.
On top of that the plot in this one was rooted in like the crime/gangs/maffia scene, which made the over the topness and high dramaness of everything just feel less out of place in a way. I don't know how to explain it. It just caused for some high stakes moments, and overall it was just an extremely engaging read. I absolutely flew through it, and just didn't want to put this down at all. 
On top of all of that I do just also like these characters more. I think Christian and Daisy were just really complex characters, and I quite liked seeing their developement throughout the novel. I also loved getting Julian's POV in this book. He is also an incredibly interesting character, and his POV did add quite a bit throughout this book. I hope this means he'll play a bigger part in the series because I'm quite curious to see where his character is going to go next. So yeah, I really liked this book a lot, and I'm even excited to read more about Magnolia and BJ right now.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief and Homophobia

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Drug use, and Self harm

The main character suffers from PTSD, and that’s shown quite a bit through the novel.

ljp817's review against another edition

emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Kidnapping, Gun violence, Violence, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Blood, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Grief, Alcohol, Child death, Homophobia, and Death of parent

Minor: Self harm, Addiction, Trafficking, and Sexual content

sha's review

dark emotional tense fast-paced

1.0

I’m sorry but Daisy Haites 🌼 just doesn’t do it for me. I didn’t buy the relationships and what is with all those footnotes?!!!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Alcohol, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Abandonment, Gun violence, and Murder

harley_dean's review

emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Murder, Sexual content, and Gun violence

Moderate: Alcohol, Grief, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Death of parent, Sexual harassment, Homophobia, and Kidnapping

wet_towlette's review against another edition

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

1.0

I was genuinely shocked when I was reading the acknowledgments and saw that this book had an editor. Like actually I'm not even joking. I think this is the most misogynistic and sexist book I've ever read. I am baffled that people can read this and feel even a semblance of enjoyment. I cannot effectively express how God-awful this book is

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Violence, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Confinement, Drug use, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Trafficking, and Vomit

kryfrh's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful tense

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual assault, and Gun violence

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Kidnapping, and Homophobia

hannah_lilli's review against another edition

emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Alcohol, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Death, Drug use, Grief, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Homophobia

sarahemhavens's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death of parent, Grief, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Death, Violence, Toxic relationship, Infidelity, Medical content, and Blood

Moderate: Drug use and Drug abuse

katiareadz's review

adventurous challenging emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

Liked it more than the first one. But in my opinion some events were not as serious as the author made them to be. Therefore the characters had some extreme reactions so the book has more drama . That was my problem with the first book as well.Some things just felt too forced and came out of nowhere. Still enjoyable tho. Also loved Julian's pov. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Alcohol, Sexual assault, and Murder

Moderate: Death of parent, Death, Grief, Medical trauma, and Violence

Minor: Trafficking and Kidnapping