Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

The Truth About Keeping Secrets by Savannah Brown

23 reviews

pastelkerstin's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Car accident, Confinement, Cursing, Lesbophobia, Self harm, Vomit, Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Outing, and Violence

Moderate: Suicide, Eating disorder, and Abandonment

Minor: Addiction, Sexual assault, Racism, and Sexual content

sisters26's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Très bon bouquin, un thriller pour adolescent bien écrit.🌈 

Il aborde aussi des sujets importants

comme les violences conjugales, les relations toxiques et l'homophobie ou encore le deuil

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On y retrouve aussi de la représentation LGBTQ+ 🏳️‍🌈, le main character étant lesbienne.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Car accident, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, and Domestic abuse

idunnoknow's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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

couldn't put it down which has been more unusual for me in recent years. really connected with the protagonist and her struggle felt real and not at all performative just for the sake of this story. I'm sure I'll revisit this book 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Body horror, Car accident, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship

brye_wheels's review

emotional mysterious reflective 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: Death of parent, Death, Car accident, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Outing, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Stalking, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Toxic friendship, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Rape, Physical abuse, Grief, Gaslighting, Blood, and Alcohol

Minor: Child abuse

hatoooz's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

stayed up for 6 hours reading this, i was kind of delusional by the end (and maybe halfway through) but it was one of my favourite reads of 2019 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Blood, Car accident, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Self harm, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Cursing, Stalking, and Torture

bookishbea's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Death of parent, Bullying, Stalking, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Homophobia

manola's review

dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Car accident, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Homophobia, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Rape and Self harm

condensedmilk's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

pretty nice actually
I expected this book to be bad because I didn't like the writer's poetry so I was being unfair but I actually do like this book.
however I'm still not compelled to give this a 4 star because I feel like it wasn't there yet but I feel like Brown is doing pretty great already as a writer
it was nice reading this book because the teenagers are relatable to an extent or at least Sydney's emotions are. admittedly, don't really love the characters so Leo is probably the best one
but yea pretty nice

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Death, Death of parent, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Stalking, and Suicidal thoughts

finanr1's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Murder, Lesbophobia, Kidnapping, Homophobia, Hate crime, Grief, Gore, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Death, Cursing, Car accident, Bullying, and Blood

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Outing, Mental illness, Lesbophobia, Infidelity, Homophobia, Gaslighting, Eating disorder, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Biphobia, and Addiction

Minor: Rape, Racism, Outing, and Drug use

sapphosghost's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective 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

5.0

Amazing book, the writing is excellent, great tension building. I had to hold myself back not to finish it immediately. The characters are relatable, I really like how realistic they feel. The topic is a bit dark but handled in an excellent way. I really liked going through the process of grieving with Sydney in the book

and I love the way her relationship with June evolved

, truly excellent book, loved it and will definitely read it again! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Car accident, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Bullying, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Outing, Sexual assault, and Stalking