Reviews tagging 'Car accident'

Powerless by Elsie Silver

42 reviews

laurenkimoto's review against another edition

fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

2.5

Holy guacamole Batman! The traumatic backstory that is just peppered in randomly and then disappears into the ether?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident

apolen's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Misogyny, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Grief, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Child death, Car accident, Infidelity, Abandonment, and Alcoholism

chelle22's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Grief, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Abandonment, Car accident, and Cursing

alybeth's review against another edition

emotional inspiring lighthearted 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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Abandonment, Car accident, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Infidelity, Animal death, and Pregnancy

sizzlesteaks's review against another edition

emotional hopeful lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Abandonment, Infidelity, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Death, Car accident, and Child death

sami_leigh's review against another edition

5.0

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟/5

🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️/5

I’m going to get comfortable disappointing other people to avoid disappointing myself.

Because I’ve been staring at Jasper Gervais since I was ten years old, and suddenly . . . he’s staring back.

🌄 First person dual POV

🌄 Runaway bride (Arranged marriage of sorts, no cheating trope 👌🏻)

🌄 Childhood crush

🌄 Friends to lovers

🌄 Age gap (not much)

🌄 Hockey player & Ballet dancer

🌄 Country boy/City girl

🌄 Forced proximity

🌄 One Bed

🌄 Nickname!

🌄 Protective MMC

🌄 Small town vibes

🌄 Well established secondary characters; Daddy Eaton (of course), Rhett & Summer, Willa & Cade, Winter 😍

🌄 ‘touch her and I’ll kill you’ vibes

🌄 Banter 👌🏻

🌄 Text messages

🌄 Tension & spice 🥵 (“Lose that f**king ring and crawl”)

🌄 MC growth: overcoming trauma, issues with self worth, communication, 

🌄 Consent & Sex Positivity

🌄 Epilogue

🌄 One of my favourite dedication pages 🙌🏻 

🌄 Book # 4 coming in June 2023!

Available on Kindle, Audible, and paperback in stores & online.

⚠️ Death of a child (in past, recounted on page), pregnancy, military personnel M.I.A., injury detail (brief, not MC), infidelity (not MC), parental abandonment, gaslighting, misogyny.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Misogyny, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Sexism

Minor: Death, Child death, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, and Car accident

cassidyzang's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Child death, and Mental illness

lilyemmaaa's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful sad 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Abandonment, Car accident, Emotional abuse, Child death, Death of parent, and Sexism

Minor: Pregnancy

sdupont's review against another edition

emotional funny 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

5.0

Elsie Silver does it again! She is so good at building relationships between well rounded characters. I loved Jasper and Sloane, they were characters you rooted for individually and together right from the start. I enjoyed seeing their relationship evolve as they became more vulnerable and honest with each other. It also can’t go without saying that this book is hot y’all! Honorable mention to the scenes with Willa and the rest of the Chesnut Springs and Gold Rush Ranch crews. I definitely would recommend this book. I can’t wait to continue with this series!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Car accident, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Grief and Child death

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

amanda_reads13's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted fast-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

Sloan's visits to her cousins ranch every summer are a welcome respite from the high demands of her father. For one month, she is carefree. When she is 10, there is a new face when she arrives to the ranch. After experiencing a life altering tragedy, Jasper was completely abandoned by his family. He is taken into the care of the Eaton family and treated as one of their own. Over the years, Sloan and Jasper's friendship grows. 

Years later, Sloan, now a prima ballerina, is set to marry an asshole her father has chosen for her. Her dad is using her as a pawn to advance his business and treats her like his property. Jasper, now a professional goalie, has to sit back and watch his best friend make, what he believes to be, the biggest mistake of her life. He has spent years trying to get Sloan to see the truth about her father, but she refuses to see it.

On the day of her wedding, Sloan receives a video showing her fiance cheating on her. Jasper comes to her rescue and takes her to Chestnut Springs. They arrive only to be dealt another blow, Beau is MIA.

I adore Sloan and Jaspers relationship. Sloan has had feelings for Jasper since the day they met, but Jasper always brushed it off as a childhood crush. As children, they became incredibly close. Jasper had experienced so much trauma in his short life and was so quiet and closed off.  He felt like he could talk about anything with Sloan and knew that she would never judge him. Jasper is highly anxious and Sloan is his safety net. She is always there to support him. As their relationship grows, he becomes more comfortable with himself and opens up more. 

I feel like the conflict in the book is understandable.

Jasper has never felt that he was good enough for Sloan, he has had feelings for her for years but after the threat from her father, he felt he had to stay away. Yes her could have told her, but at that point she didn't see the truth about her father and she probably would have taken her father's side over Jasper's. He felt like he had something to prove and that he couldn't act upon his feelings until he had made something of himself.  Then once Jasper decides to act on his feelings, Sloan has a hard time trusting that his feelings are true. She has loved him for years, so why is he reaiprocating them now after so long?

I feel like the Beau story line was unnecessary and was really pushed aside for most of the book.

  
I LOVE that the other family members were so present in this book!  I love seeing how their relationships have grown and how close the family is.

Tropes: friends to lovers, small town 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Abandonment, Misogyny, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Grief