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The Unwanted Marriage by Catharina Maura

14 reviews

culzean's review

emotional funny sad 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, Sexual content, Violence, Alcohol, Child abuse, Death of parent, Abortion, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

noellelovesbooks's review

3.25

 Content Warnings: sexual content, emotional abuse, physical abuse, toxic relationships, grief, gaslighting, abandonment, and violence.
Mention of: domestic abuse, loss of parent[s], torture

I enjoyed getting Dion and Faye's story but...I feel like it was unnecessarily long. 🙈

Both characters are equally broken by the past and those they love, though in different ways.

I do love the way that Catharina links the stories together showing the overlap and just how connected these characters are.

Definitely think I need a break from the Windsor's though...afraid if I start book 4 after the feelings of Dion and Faye's story being drug out...that it might negatively affect my reading of the next couple 😅 which sucks because book 4 was the book I originally heard about that had me wanting to read this series 😭 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Physical abuse, Abandonment, Violence, Toxic relationship, Grief, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Torture, Death of parent, and Domestic abuse

tenderbench's review

mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Violence, Emotional abuse, Blood, Grief, Physical abuse, and Sexual content

anushka_17's review

dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious sad tense fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Torture, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Violence

aelin_morgenstern's review

dark emotional hopeful

• 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Physical abuse, and Grief

Moderate: Violence and Child abuse

Minor: Murder and Death of parent

kenziewol's review

dark emotional 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Violence

alxisrae's review

dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Death of parent, Cursing, Bullying, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Gaslighting

hbae's review

dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Grief, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Death of parent and Violence

jasbeingjas's review

dark emotional tense 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? It's complicated

3.25

This is the book that made me pick up this series from some tiktoks I saw, but it’s actually my least favorite. While I enjoyed the read, Dion and Faye were probably my least favorite couple so far. There were so many times where the books started to feel a little repetitive, especially coming from Dion. I will say, that as far as age gap romances go, this was the least creepy or cringey. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and Domestic abuse

katieandrews658's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.5

Great book. as always Catherine Maura writes her characters so well with such good character development that you feel everything their feeling. The love story is a classic stranger/enemies to lovers marriage of convenience. 

The only thing that threw me off was the first scene we saw from Faye's perspective had physical abuse in it and that was very hard to read after Dion's chapter and without any back story or knowledge of Faye. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Bullying, Child abuse, Violence, Physical abuse, and Sexual content