Reviews tagging 'Violence'

The Favor by Suzanne Wright

13 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

marinajonesreads's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

1.75

Definitely one of the worst written books I’ve read in a long time. Sad, because the concept was interesting. And I first thought the grumpy side of things was going to be fun. And the DID representation was cool. But I quickly found myself editing the story in real time. I’m not overly judgmental when it comes to romance book — if it is fun and entertaining, I’ll enjoy it — but this one was so very poorly written. I skimmed a chunk of it and only finished because I wanted to know who did some of the stuff. It was a lot of telling me what to feel instead of showing anything, tons of exposition, overly detailed in parts that didn’t need it and not enough detail in parts that didn’t. I wouldn’t recommend if you’re in the mood for a simply marriage of convenience trope book.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Violence, Physical abuse, Infidelity, Drug abuse, Grief, Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Child abuse, and Alcoholism

Minor: Vomit, Abortion, Miscarriage, and Infertility

knl0819's review

2.75

This book had so much potential! It bums me out that I didn’t really enjoy this book but I just felt like it was too long and we skipped a lot of bonding moment. There were several time jumps within the book which I get to an extent since it’s supposed to be almost a year if their lives but we only saw them go on two dates and two trips to her parents house in the whole book! Like about 100 of the pages were full of the FMC’s internal dialogue. Which would be fine if she wasn’t second guessing and talking herself out of think Dane cared for her. Like she knows he isn’t the most emotional guy and is totally fine with that. Yet he literally was showing some very high levels of care for her but she would be like “oh he is just pretending and playing the husband” or being like “that was so caring of him but don’t think he cares about you” which was okay at first but got frustrating. I kinda enjoyed all the family drama and people on both sides trying to break them up BUT the amount of times Vienna got upset because she thought he cheated was very upsetting. Like she is so smart but she knows that several people are actively plotting to split them up yet is so quick to try to walk out of the deal. I also feel like this book is slightly misrepresented. There is a lot of dark stuff that gets mentioned in this book like mental illness, drug addiction, child abuse, extortion, and discussion of violence. This book felt almost like it was on the edge of dark romance. Think twisted lies by Ana Huang vibes but more frequent. There were some moments that felt like they were played for jokes but were ultimately not that funny. It’s sucky cause I love the MCs and felt that all the potential was there but was so missed. We barely saw them together like we got told about all of these moments after the fact. I never understood the idea of telling not showing but quickly understood that by 35%. Nothing really happens until about that point in the book anyway then it slows right back down until about 60%. I started skimming at about 70%. The breakup attempts drama pulled me back at 80%. Then I skimmed agin to the end.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse and Mental illness

Minor: Child death, Violence, Death of parent, Suicide, and Addiction

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

yjakmouj's review

dark emotional hopeful fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Violence, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Mental illness, Grief, Domestic abuse, Child death, and Death of parent

miow's review

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Violence

kuroko'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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Child abuse and Violence

Minor: Vomit, Domestic abuse, and Addiction

soniajoy98's review against another edition

hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

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

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Misogyny, Sexual content, Alcohol, Classism, Mental illness, Bullying, Cursing, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent, Addiction, Drug abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Child death, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Car accident, Infertility, Infidelity, Domestic abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Vomit

Minor: Miscarriage, Blood, Stalking, Abortion, and Cultural appropriation

chai_and_books's review

fast-paced

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

3.0

I just couldn't get over the mmc calling the fmc baby girl unironically. I also imagined it the way the main character from 365 days said it so I kept cracking up. I liked the fmc though, she was a well written character (for the most part)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent

tingelinda91's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing and Sexual content

Moderate: Alcohol, Violence, Physical abuse, Vomit, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Car accident, Grief, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Infidelity, Abortion, Pregnancy, Self harm, Drug use, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Murder, and Child death