Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Favor by Suzanne Wright

8 reviews

prettynerdy3's review

challenging emotional hopeful medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Cursing, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Abandonment, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Mental illness, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Suicide, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Infertility, Abortion, Bullying, Cursing, Suicide, Vomit, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Gaslighting, Death of parent, Grief, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Blood, Child death, Child abuse, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Stalking, and Violence

culzean's review

dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Grief, Infertility, Child death, Cursing, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Classism, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Stalking, Suicide, Body shaming, Gaslighting, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Death of parent, and Violence

pat_anne's review

adventurous emotional 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? Yes

5.0

This got me out of a skim-read rut! It's so good and deserves more attention! And no third-act break up!!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and Suicide

Minor: Drug use

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

melissaslibraryy's review

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective sad 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

5.0

Tropes: grumpy/sunshine, marriage of convenience, hidden feelings, boss/employee relationship, HEA !

The chemistry between the MC’s is just >>>

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content, Medical content, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Mental illness

Moderate: Abandonment, Bullying, Violence, Alcohol, and Death

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

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

ariana_m's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Okay- This was pretty good. I enjoyed it. Dane and Vienna's relationship took a while to grow on me. I think he always liked her but due to personal reasons, never pushed a move on her. Instead of jumping into a relationship, it was easier to jump into marriage straight away. The trust fund was like a blessing in disguise. I felt bad for Vienna a lot, considering her past. Her and Dane were really closed off throughout the whole book. It got dark fast. I felt bad for Dane after learning about his past but it explains himself and the way he is perfectly. I loved Simon. I loved the mental illness representation. I loved the whole "touch her and you die" vibe. Overall I enjoyed it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Mental illness, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Death of parent and Emotional abuse

Minor: Abortion, Chronic illness, Death, and Vomit