Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

The Sunshine Court by Nora Sakavic

24 reviews

lizzybaldwin18's review

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Sexual violence, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Cursing, Grief, Confinement, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Violence, Death, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Sexual assault, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

despina_pngrk's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, Emotional abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicide, Sexual assault, Torture, Sexual violence, Rape, and Homophobia

Minor: Suicide attempt, Child abuse, Medical trauma, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Murder, and Domestic abuse

mo345's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Confinement, Sexual violence, Abandonment, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Cursing, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Trafficking, Death, Child abuse, Blood, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, and Rape

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Medical content, Medical trauma, Pedophilia, Gaslighting, Grief, and Homophobia

m4ximus_pr1m3's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Self harm, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Cursing, Death, Suicide, Mental illness, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, and Medical content

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Eating disorder, Vomit, and Bullying

eb10's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-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

5.0

Oh my god! Nothing can emotionally wreck me more than Nora Sakavic writing about Jean

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Cursing, Physical abuse, Bullying, Dysphoria, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Emotional abuse, Rape, Blood, Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Torture, Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Suicide, Abandonment, Death, and Eating disorder

soulsafire's review

dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-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

5.0

I've been waiting for this book for literal years.

Seeing some of my favourite characters from a totally new perspective is everything I wanted. Neil Josten. 

My heart breaks over and over for Jean and the friendship he slowly gains with the Trojans is just beautiful. But, Jeremy what are you hiding? 

Maybe I'm just too invested in these characters, but this was so perfect and I cannot wait for tsc2.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Murder, Physical abuse, and Suicide

lucylovesgrapes's review

dark emotional sad tense fast-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

5.0

nora sakavic is both my enemy and someone i admired beyond belief. let me wipe my tears. a truly amazing story, with everything i loved about the foxes and more. i can barely put into words how much this book means to me, if i could give more than 5 stars i would. that rating seems insufficient when i reflect on the masterpiece i just read. 

jean yves-moreau holds a very special place in my heart, one that now houses my beloved foxes and the trojans. if he doesn't get every single thing he deserves, i will be rioting. the glimpses of the foxes were like crack and i need more of them. the descriptions of andrew and neil made my little heart sing and neil in the final chapter??? he knows he is THAT bitch and seeing him from an outside pov is exhilarating and i crave more. 

sakavic writes found family masterfully and creates incredibly complex characters that i have rarely come across. cat and laila are just amazing, refreshing characters and the need i have for them to hang out with dan, allison, matt and renee is unreal. jeremy is such an exciting character to read, he's got so much depth that is slowly being explored and his story is one i can't wait to read.

i am hoping for more books with the trojans, especially about jeremy and his relationship with his family. also more exy games, i adored the game scenes with the foxes and would love to see the behind the scenes of trojans playing against other teams. an utter masterpiece that i will never forget, right there with the foxes. 🦊🦊🦊

(lucas and graysen?? it's on SIGHT. i truly don't give a shit is lucas apologised, i will put him down.)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Rape, Abandonment, Fire/Fire injury, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Confinement, Torture, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Cursing, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Violence, Death, Grief, Suicide, Trafficking, Body horror, Blood, Bullying, Murder, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical trauma

kelsokake's review

challenging emotional 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

4.75

just inject this directly into my veins. idk wtf Nora puts in these books but I just want moreeeeee

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Sexual assault

sadpendragon's review

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

real literature is back /lh

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual violence, Suicide, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Toxic friendship, Grief, Sexual harassment, Blood, Biphobia, and Sexual assault

Minor: Murder, Child death, Adult/minor relationship, and Emotional abuse

celinbean's review

dark emotional funny sad 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

5.0

I cant believe i actually got to read this i was hesitant at first bc its been such a long time between the last book and this one and we’ve all had so much time to come up with our own headcanons by now but this absolutely lived up to my expectations 

This was a deeply traumatizing time for jean but i was having the time of my life ngl i think the funniest part in this book is that jean was just like “yeah the torture i had to endure for years was bad but you know what is worse? being bisexual” and hes so real for that obviously the trauma goes a lot deeper but this stood out lol 

The scenes we got from the last book in jeans and jeremy’s pov had me grinning like a maniac while reading ngl it was so fun (not for jean but i digress)


also neil in jeans pov?? absolutely feral. he was in this book for like max 5-6 pages and still solved about 3-4 of jeans problems and delivered him a found family on a silver platter truly a man of action i love him so much

as with the previous books look at the trigger warnings this may be called sunshine court but we get to hear about all of the torture and rape jean had to go through with the ravens and nora truly did not hold back. We even got 2 jean lines that hit equally hard as andrews “i was seven of course i believed him” and his answer to the “who said please so much” so you know, prepare.

also jean having an equivalent to neils “im fine” with his “injuries happen during scrimmages” with equal reactions from everyone around him was truly *chefs kiss*

also im curious about the pacing bc this felt like a very slow plot progression considering this is only supposed to be a duology. I know this is a story of healing but there’s still so much to go through especially bc we barely touched on jeremy’s problems and jean made minimal progress which is still a lot considering the amount of trauma he has but we also only have one book left?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Torture, Toxic friendship, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, and Violence

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Child abuse, Murder, Suicide, Cursing, Death, and Suicide attempt