Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Friends Like These by Jennifer Lynn Alvarez

6 reviews

laurens016's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Death of parent

Minor: Injury/Injury detail and Domestic abuse

fizzy_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Blood, Alcoholism, Grief, Toxic relationship, Death, Sexual assault, Drug use, and Rape

bookcaptivated's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Rape, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Sexual content, Drug abuse, Blood, Car accident, Death, Murder, Bullying, Infidelity, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Drug use, Violence, and Physical abuse

Minor: Cancer, Classism, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Medical content, Adult/minor relationship, Grief, Animal death, and Emotional abuse

jackieyvette's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

Wow. This book is dark and twisted and seemingly straightforward, but is just a whole mess in a really great way. 
I don’t want to say too much and risk ruining it for someone, so I’ll just say I think this story can be summed up in one sentence to me and that is: people are literally insane. 
I feel like this could be a really popular book in the same vein as something like We Were Liars and I’m so happy I got here before the flock appears. 

Crying score: yeah, a little. 

PS read TWs 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Rape, Stalking, Drug use, Infidelity, Murder, Sexual violence, Violence, Addiction, Alcohol, Panic attacks/disorders, Car accident, Child death, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Drug abuse, Bullying, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Blood, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Vomit

avidreaderandgeekgirl's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

 4 stars- This covered a lot of hard topics! Wow! but in a very compassionate way. I did really enjoy the story, the twists, and turns, not the character's suffering. But it did end differently than I thought it would, for once I didn't know who the murderer was right away! LOL So I was surprised, but it all made sense. Overall a lot of messed up people doing messed up things to each other. High school now sounds like hell! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Sexual assault, Vomit, Cursing, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Alcoholism, Bullying, Violence, Toxic friendship, Grief, and Alcohol

Moderate: Murder, Death of parent, Drug use, Blood, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cancer

oracle_of_madness's review against another edition

3.5

Thank you Netgalley and Publisher for this Arc!

Talk about toxic!! Whew... this was a wild ride and it had my head spinning with the possibilities in this intense small town thriller.

I think this was the point, but I didn't really like any of the characters.   Plus, right from the start, the author throws the reader into the middle of one of the worst things that could happen at a party... or anytime, anywhere really.   

When Jessica is ready to leave a huge summer party the TV suddenly turns on and she sits in horror watching her boyfriend hook up with her ex- best friend.   This story continues with a missing persons case and much more.  So be ready and hold on bc this does not slow down!

Out November 1, 2022!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Toxic relationship, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Death