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Things I Wanted to Say, But Never Did by Monica Murphy

13 reviews

warahsarah's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Toxic relationship, Bullying, and Sexual content

Moderate: Sexual assault, Alcohol, and Rape

Minor: Drug use, Murder, and Death

lizzy2111's review

challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

3.5

Extremely spicy

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Bullying, and Drug use

midnightrose_reads's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Things I Wanted To Say (but never did) Is the first book in the Lancaster Prep series, and I absolutely adored it. It’s a dark romance with a lot of tropes I love such as bad girl/bad boy, forced proximity, dedregation etc. It also gave me major Punk 57 vibes (which is a favorite book of mine). Definitely can’t wait to read the rest of this series! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Cursing, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Death, and Drug use

Moderate: Sexual harassment and Sexual assault

Minor: Violence and Rape

linnea_tornblom's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Alcohol, Cursing, Sexual content, Body shaming, Rape, Sexual harassment, Violence, Toxic relationship, Death, and Bullying

Moderate: Infidelity, Incest, and Murder

Minor: Eating disorder, Drug use, Abandonment, Pregnancy, and Adult/minor relationship

sebradley29's review against another edition

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Body horror, Cursing, Death of parent, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Blood, Classism, Drug abuse, Grief, Infidelity, Sexual violence, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Medical trauma, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

jadehusdanhicks's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

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

2.0

Very dark and spicy as is the rest of the series.  
But honestly for me it was truly too dark and I never settled in and enjoyed it.  But honestly I think it was more of a me issue than it necessarily being badly written or anything of the such

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Alcoholism, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, Sexual content, Rape, Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, and Drug use

worldofv33's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Addiction, Body shaming, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Murder, Pedophilia, Rape, and Death of parent

thenovelbookshelf's review against another edition

dark tense medium-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? Yes

3.5

Fall down the BookSmutTok hole where 50 Shades meets old money senior school at Lancaster Prep, where enemies turn to hardcore lovers despite their families' objections. 
  
Dark with darker sub-storylines, Monica Murphy builds the characters quite slowly as they show themselves to each other. Lots of adult themes and situations that are quite unrealistic yet fantastical to read and daydream about.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Sexual harassment, Rape, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Infidelity, Sexual violence, Incest, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Chronic illness, and Classism

Minor: Death, Murder, Drug use, Eating disorder, Alcohol, Pregnancy, Death of parent, and Suicide attempt

faefolkreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.0

This was a very addictive read, but also quite dark and brutal. There were things in this book that just didn’t sit right (victim shaming and their ages to start) but over all it was an easy read. As a ‘Bully-Romance’ there are tonnes of trigger warnings, however I found Summer and Whit fed off each others ‘darkness’ and worked so well together. Whit is absolutely filthy and this book is honestly 90% smut and 10% plot 🤷‍♀️ I quite enjoyed the span of time this book spread, so you felt like you got most of their story.

TW: attempted sexual assault (on page), victim blaming for said attempted SA, derogatory terms, non-consensual sex, rape (off page/alluded to), bullying, drug and alcohol use

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Bullying, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Drug use, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Child abuse

isla_gracereader13's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad 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

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Addiction, Drug use, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Body shaming, Toxic relationship, Infidelity, and Sexual violence