Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Offside by Avery Keelan

14 reviews

abidavisf's review against another edition

funny hopeful slow-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? No

3.75

An enjoyable and funny romance with characters you like straightaway. Chase is an angel, and I want to wrap Bailey in cotton wool and treat her like the queen she is.

The book is probably a little long for what it is. The plus of that is that you get a good amount of actual hockey time. This isn’t just a romance where one of the love interests happens to play hockey; you actually get the ins and outs of the games and what happens in each period which is what I live for.

There were elements of the story that I think we could have explored further, including Chase’s father and the way he processes

his death

. Because of the length of the book and the time between finding out about his dad and then determining the day of the party, it took me longer than it should have to realise why the party happened in the first place. Had the book been shorter or we been reminded more of his dad, the significance of that night would have made sense much sooner.

There were also several sub-plots that were fairly brief and therefore now feel unnecessary as they didn’t add a great deal to the plot or at least set us up for a sequel, e.g.

Derek’s relationship with Jill. It just ended and that was that. No repercussions? Did she break up with Eddie? Who knows?!

Another thing that, now that I’ve finished, feels like it was unnecessary if it wasn’t going to be explored more is

Sophie’s pregnancy

. We never heard about it again after that one scene so it feels like it didn’t need to happen. Either that or we should have gotten at least one other scene explaining what the outcome was. (In general, I’d actually very much like to hear the confirmed outcome for all of that group: Luke, Kristen, Amelia, Jill and Paul. I hope Eddie got out.)

I’d also like to know that

Nikki is okay. Luke blew up her life and potentially her relationship. We never got to hear about any of her involvement (if any) so, from the information we were given, it is clear that she was as much a victim as Luke.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Infidelity, Bullying, Sexual harassment, Toxic friendship, Misogyny, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Car accident, Classism, Death of parent, Grief, Medical content, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, and Vomit

dreezy's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Cursing, Medical content, Violence, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Bullying, and Sexism

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Classism, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, and Blood

Minor: Drug use, Infidelity, Car accident, and Death of parent

sarahsbooklife's review against another edition

emotional funny relaxing fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Alcohol

Moderate: Violence, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Stalking, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

virgoabb's review against another edition

lighthearted fast-paced

4.0

a palette cleanser 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Sexual assault and Drug use

underscoresyd's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted slow-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

too much filler, could have been about 200 pages shorter & it gave me the ick whenever chase would touch bailey and instantly think of sex. like we get it. she’s hot. the spice wasn’t really well written either which is a disappointment since the book is so long & there’s so much of it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Stalking, Sexual harassment, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Sexual content

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Death of parent

Minor: Pregnancy, Car accident, Drug use, Rape, and Abortion

wander_read_love's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Cursing, Death of parent, Misogyny, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Violence and Stalking

Minor: Drug use

chloewilson_13's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful lighthearted reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Stalking

Minor: Domestic abuse

zias's review against another edition

lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Violence and Stalking

ladylaurenexplorer's review against another edition

lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.75

I love me some thick books, especially when it comes to the Romance side. 

Tell me the build up to this tension to this romance was very much needed in the span of the book. I loved how they started out, their unique friendship that turned into something more.

I found it very crazy that even your own blood can just not care about your own feelings when it comes to their teammates.

I also like how it showed gaining friendship and the end of a toxic friendship.

This was very good to me. I definitely would reread it. I do wish there was more graphic spice, but the storyline and their banter together made up for how not graphic everything was.

I’m also glad that all of the bonus material was included because it made everything a little bit better in the end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Sexual content

culzean's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted 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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Alcohol, Body shaming, Bullying, Death, Drug use, Infidelity, Vomit, Gaslighting, Violence, Classism, Cursing, and Death of parent