Reviews tagging 'Child death'

The Favor by Suzanne Wright

21 reviews

cocpop_reads's review

emotional 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

I was not emotionally prepared for this book at all. This is obviously a fake dating romance but don’t expect there to be laugh and giggles for the majority of the book. 

I think my heart was aching for the first half of the book because learning about Vienna’s past is just agonizing. Then throw in Dane’s past and I was floundering.

I think what had me so riveted to this book was the tension that I felt throughout it. Some good and some bad. But Dane is such an intense character that I was riveted to how he acted with Vienna and how protective he was.

This is a medium burn when it comes to how fast their physical relation develops but be prepared for a slow burn for the emotional bond to solidify.

I see people have noted this as a lighthearted book, but I would say it’s 25% lighthearted and 75% tense. Only because of the topics that are present in the book.

This is my favorite book I’ve read of 2023 so far.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Physical abuse

Minor: Child death

jesuu__'s review

challenging lighthearted reflective medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Sexual content

Moderate: Death, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, Child death, Child abuse, Mental illness, and Physical abuse

finnickdeservedbetter's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

Tropes:

Marriage of convenience, fake relationship, boss x employee, grump x sunshine, first comes marriage then comes love

Rep?

Dissociative identity disorder (FMC'S father), childhood trauma (FMC & MMC)

Written review to come

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content, Violence, Child abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Infidelity, Mental illness, Child death, and Abandonment

Minor: Abortion, Addiction, Infertility, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Stalking, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

kitabe_bohot_si's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

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

5.0

Love when I find a book which ticks all my requirements

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Sexual content

Minor: Miscarriage, Child abuse, Child death, Grief, Pregnancy, Addiction, Drug abuse, and Physical abuse

bedtimesandbooks's review against another edition

hopeful 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Emotional abuse, Drug abuse, Sexual content, Suicide, Alcohol, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Infidelity, and Grief

Minor: Infertility, Abortion, Pedophilia, and Car accident

amotoquinha's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious fast-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Infertility, Mental illness, Child death, Death of parent, Self harm, and Domestic abuse

steffandbooks's review

emotional funny 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

3.75

This book was a whole vibe that's for sure. It started off strong like most of the marriage of convenience books. The male character came up with a lame ass reason to fake date and get married, then obviously, as the story, goes along, they fall in love and stay married for good.
Well, Vienna is a really strong as character. She knows how to handle Dane due to having worked for him for a very long time and Dane is super grumpy. Like super super grumpy. I've never come across another one that is grumpier than him. Anyways, I liked how he was able to read every single emotion from her. He knew her so good already, no point of lying at all. 

There are quite a few heavy topics being discussed, e.g. Vienna's father had DID, her mother wanted to sell her to her drug dealer when she was a minor, she went into foster care, her foster sister didn't like her and abused her. Dane was also abused by his father, he lost his twin when he was eight and he doesn't have a good relationship with the rest of his family, except for maybe one of his brothers - Kent. I was like, jeez, give the characters a break.

I wasn't really surprised about the end, saw it coming from a mile away because I know a jealous woman when I see one. I did like how Dane and Vienna almost every time communicated with each other. There were multiple conflicts presented in the book, but they never actually broke up, mostly because of Dane just being a possessive ass man and not letting her leave until they talked things out. What I didn't like were the sexy scenes. I was looking for one sweet or let's say normal moment, but it always ended up in getting f** and in the same position. It looked liked that Vienna enjoyed it at least every time. Although their time in NY was a bit questionable because

she told him no multiple times and he just pursued it nevertheless. I didn't think it to be an overly no go because Vienna didn't actually mean to say no. She said no because she thought it wasn't a good idea to sleep with him again and because they agreed it should never happen after the first time happened. She didn't say no because she didn't want to sleep with him, quite the opposite. So that's why I was kind of able to overlook the situation.

Overall, it just took me so much time to get through this book. Idk might have been my kindle app, but felt like an eternity and usually I get through 350 pages-books in two days max. I also found it exhausting sometimes to just read through the characters days for a whole chapter. There is no real plot her, it's more of a vibe kind of book, which I do enjoy occasionally as well, but in some instances it just felt boring and I didn't want to read about the character putting dishes into the dishwasher and then going upstairs to read, take a shower and so on. Felt to me like the author just wrote something down to have the pages filled.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, Sexual content, and Child abuse

Moderate: Drug use, Death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and Child death

Minor: Infertility and Bullying

wts_tiffany's review against another edition

emotional 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, and Vomit

Minor: Abortion and Child death

namenotimportant's review

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Emotional abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Vomit and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Car accident

occasional_reader's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

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

3.0

I’m a sucker for a possessive/dominant guy and I love a marriage of convenience. I really liked the plot, but it was difficult to get through because of the writing.

The writing was at times choppy and confusing, and the dialogue between the characters felt too unnatural and fake. 
Good read, but otherwise pretty forgettable 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Child death