Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

The Goal by Elle Kennedy

93 reviews

britwalsh16's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-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

I can’t get over how much I love this series!!! I barely slept ALL weekend so I could read it! It’s absolutely incredible!! Tuck & Sabrina man! Yet again, Tuck is another dream man, especially with his southern accent! 😘 & headstrong Sabrina, I loved everything about her! & reading about all the past couples as aunts & uncles! I just love it!! I love everything about this book! & I can’t wait to start the Legacy & see where all the couples are in the future!! 🥰

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Grief, Medical content, Sexual harassment, Cursing, Abandonment, and Vomit

Moderate: Alcohol, Car accident, Toxic relationship, Sexism, Alcoholism, Death, Death of parent, Misogyny, and Body shaming

Minor: Lesbophobia, Stalking, Homophobia, Classism, Confinement, and Murder

kamelleruano's review

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Pregnancy

Moderate: Cursing, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Death of parent, and Domestic abuse

arizona_foster's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

amanda994's review

slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

kamreher'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

per my spreadsheet

i’m so frustrated.

the miscommunication in the book almost had me throwing it across the room and I feel barely satisfied with the outcome.

spice 🌶  - a 4 🌶  spicy (romance.io scale)

length - just right

reading speed - read in 3 days

did it make me cry? - yes. yes it did.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Pregnancy

Moderate: Sexual harassment and Emotional abuse

denaliann's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted relaxing fast-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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content

catastrophiclyss's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Car accident, Cursing, Death of parent, Death, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Gaslighting, Sexism, Abandonment, Classism, and Alcohol

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Sexual harassment, Violence, Grief, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Misogyny, Sexism, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Car accident

beckyyreadss's review

emotional 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? Yes

3.0

I wanted to read this book as my goal last year was to discover new authors and Elle Kennedy is adored within the book community. I have been slowly getting into sport romances, this book was so boring and dragged. Plus who wants a pregnancy trope? No one.  

This book has two points of view. The first is Sabrina James, she is a college senior and she has her whole future planned out: graduate from college, kick butt in law school, and land a high-paying job at a cutthroat firm. Her path to escaping her shameful past certainly doesn’t include a gorgeous hockey player who believes in romance and love at first sight. One night of sizzling heat and surprising tenderness is all she’s willing to give John Tucker, but sometimes, one night is all it takes for her entire life to change. The second point of view is John Tucker, he believes that being a team player is as important as being the star. On the ice, he’s fine staying out of the spotlight, but when it comes to becoming a daddy at the age of twenty-two, he refuses to be bench warmer. It doesn’t hurt that the soon-to-be mother of his child is beautiful, whip-smart and keeps him on his toes. The problem is, Sabrina’s heart is locked up tight, and the fiery brunette is too stubborn to accept his help. If he wants a life with the woman of his dreams, he’ll have to convince her that some goals can only be made with an assist. 

Usually, I find hockey romances addictive, but this book was so slow and boring, and I couldn’t care at all for the pregnancy trope especially for John Tucker, he was such a golden retriever, and I just wanted him to success with his business without Sabrina. As this book runs on the same time as The Score, I find myself skimming the bits that we already knew about – Beau's death, Dean being a dick, everyone leaving college. There wasn’t enough hockey either for a hockey romance and I would have loved to see the girls together more besides from the epilogue.  

The only thing I enjoyed was the men having the banter still and all fighting to be uncles or godparents. The fact that this book sort of ties up everything nicely and the fact that you see the glimpse of Fitzy and Summer’s romance brewing.  

This is one of the books in the series where I probably won’t remember much about it besides that it was the book with the pregnancy trope and ruined the series. I will carry on and read the fifth book in this series just to see how the guys are doing. My main issue with this series is I didn’t really love any of the women that these guys ended up with.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual harassment, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Sexism, Medical content, Grief, Abortion, and Misogyny

hannahwhiteyy's review against another edition

lighthearted slow-paced

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

3.5

while I didn’t love this one as much as The Deal (that book will always be top tier), I really enjoyed seeing Sabrina grow to love herself and accept love from others. that, and baby Jamie was so damn cute :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Pregnancy

Moderate: Alcoholism and Domestic abuse

Minor: Abortion

sebradley29's review

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Abortion, Cursing, and Sexual content

Moderate: Alcoholism, Abandonment, Alcohol, Vomit, Emotional abuse, and Death

Minor: Death of parent, Fatphobia, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Sexual harassment, Body shaming, Car accident, Grief, Medical content, and Toxic relationship