Reviews tagging 'Toxic friendship'

People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

18 reviews

thedambookshelf's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Grief, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship

gauriraut's review against another edition

emotional hopeful lighthearted reflective 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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Mental illness, Sexual content, Medical content, and Alcohol

Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Death, Grief, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Pregnancy

annag77's review against another edition

lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No

1.0

Y’all I have tried! This was my second Emily Henry book and I guess I’m just not a fan of her writing or style. I didn’t connect with the characters at all (they annoyed me) and some things got repetitive or even forced at times. I had similar vibes with Happy Place. 🙇🏻‍♀️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Bullying

Toxic friendship, cheating, Contains cussing, God’s name in vain, sexual content, LGBTQIA representation

heftsi's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship and Toxic friendship

krosebooks's review

challenging emotional funny inspiring tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I love that the characters have no reason to love each other, but despite their differences love each other anyway. Emily Henry had me laughing and swooning. 

If you liked When Harry Met Sally this is the book for you!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

gracescanlon's review

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

What in the contrived-barely-a-reason-not-to-be-together…?

Still, adorable, and I’m a little mad about it. How can the thing keeping these two apart be so DUMB, but the book be enjoyable enough to earn 4 stars? Ugh. I’m annoyed at myself for seeing this book’s glaring flaw and liking it anyway, and I’m annoyed with Ms. Henry for charming me enough to do so.

4 stars — begrudgingly. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Bullying, Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Alcohol, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

chronicacademia's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful fast-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Grief, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship

kedalrymple's review

lighthearted medium-paced

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

2.5

Incredibly light book and easy read. Narrative technique was fun but honestly the characters weren’t deep enough for me to continue hearing about their childhood/past/coming of age over and over again. That being said, all of the characters (except the main character) were incredibly kind and likable. Honestly, The highlight of this book is the way that the author speaks of love. It’s beautiful, emotional, and rings true. There is also boundary setting, self awareness and personal reflection…Three things you rarely see in romance novels. However the main relationship is pretty juvenile , toxic, codependent, and pretty selfish. It would have been nice to see the main character actually grow over time instead of cramming a decade of emotional growth into the last two chapters.  That being said it was a fun and easy book, perfect to talk about when you meet people on vacation. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent and Toxic friendship

chasingpages1's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted relaxing 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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Death of parent

Moderate: Bullying and Alcohol

Minor: Cursing, Drug use, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Excrement, Vomit, Pregnancy, and Toxic friendship

axel_p's review

lighthearted slow-paced

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

2.5

- Boring
- The characters were better as friends
- Stereotypical portrayal of queer people
- way too long

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Content Warnings

Minor: Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Toxic friendship