Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Exes and O's by Amy Lea

31 reviews

rickireadss's review against another edition

3.0

this book wasn't bad, it just wasn't really good either. i pushed through to the end because i wanted to see if our fmc would pull her head out of her butt (spoiler: she does but it takes until like the 80% MARK ugh) i wasn't even like engaged and excited about the story until the 70% and the entire last like 10% was horrible.

⚠️:  gaslighting, emotional abuse, medical content, toxic relationship, chronic illness (side character),  death of parent, death, abandonment

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Medical content and Toxic relationship

Minor: Chronic illness, Abandonment, and Death of parent

nbreezy17's review against another edition

funny lighthearted 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship

infjkiki's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Medical content

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Emotional abuse

kreadsromance's review against another edition

funny lighthearted 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual content, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Medical content, Toxic relationship, and Chronic illness

Minor: Abandonment, Death of parent, and Death

kaydeedickins'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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Misogyny, Medical content, Gaslighting, Grief, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Sexism, and Alcohol

Minor: Death of parent and Chronic illness

arireadsitall's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful 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

4.5

I adored this book and I am indeed a Tara 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse

nutmegvotour's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted slow-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

5.0

I adores this book. I highly recommend giving it a read. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Gaslighting, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Chronic illness

Author has a note about content warnings

bookishwondergoth's review against another edition

funny hopeful lighthearted relaxing medium-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

Well, this was utterly delightful. RTC although I am falling a bit behind with these.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gaslighting, Medical content, Sexual content, Alcohol, Ableism, Sexism, Emotional abuse, and Cursing

Minor: Death of parent and Child death

I have put ableism as a warning because of the heavy use of the word “crazy” which is directly challenged on the page by the main character and the prose.

ewatt33's review against another edition

funny hopeful lighthearted medium-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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Misogyny

onthesamepage's review against another edition

funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.5

Tropes:

friends to lovers, slow burn

Steam level: 🌶🌶

Things I liked:
* A romance where one of the leads is a bookstagrammer? Adorable. Loved all the references to leaving books lying around for shots, book stack challenges, etc.
* Tara doesn't feel like she's "not like other girls", which is refreshing.
* The open and clear communication between Trevor and Tara when they got together was nice to see. I appreciate that Trevor was honest about his fears and needs instead of trying to pretend he was all in, only to backtrack later.
* The epilogue is fantastic.
* It's very readable and has a lot of humorous situations when it comes to Tara and her exes. Not quite laugh-out-loud for me, though.
* Starfishing

Things I didn't like:
* The brief snippets that were descriptions of videos Tara had done (for BookTok I'm assuming) didn't work for me.
* While I overall enjoyed the book, the romance left me fairly cold. Trevor and Tara are cute together, and I have nothing against them, but I wasn't aching for them to be together either. There were no butterflies.
* Something I've learned about my reading taste when it comes to romcoms is that good banter is really important to me. I missed it in this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Chronic illness and Toxic relationship