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The Favor by Suzanne Wright

12 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

beevivi's review against another edition

3.25

When they are unsure about or bothered by something they immediately talk! Probably the best comunication I have read in a romance. Machoism. Some of the sex scenes felt icky.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Physical abuse and Child abuse

Minor: Death of parent, Abortion, and Child death

chloeleigh95's review

funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted slow-paced

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

4.0

4⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️& 2 🌶️🌶️ well this turned out to be a good and unexpectedly sexy read. I loved the characters and the FMC & MMC snarky comments. The story mirrored that of “the proposal” movie, if the male and female roles had been reversed. I did a mix of audio book and ebook for this read and I also enjoyed the narration although I do prefer dual male female narration as a rule. The spice was vanilla but very well done. I loved the happy ending and character development. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Mental illness, Alcohol, Child abuse, Abortion, and Vomit

kerrythefire's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.5

Hard to know how to review this book. Hard to describe the book and my experience with it. 

I liked it. I liked both MCs well enough and their love story kept me engaged. The doubt and misunderstandings the FMC had, especially re the MMC's feelings were believable, not annoying, given who he was. I think the first person POV helped keep the relationship interesting because we as readers also didn't know what was in the MMC's head, we only had the FMC's thoughts and observations to go off of.

It was probably longer than it needed to be but it also kinda worked. The pacing didn't feel slow or off, I think the author just gave us full scenes and dialogue that other books often skip over, but not it a way that dragged the story down. It just felt like we were observing things in a more real and linear timeline than other stories that employ big time jumps.

Despite the whole fake marriage trope, the conniving side characters, and some heavier topics and the main characters' backstories, this book felt like a moderate-conflict and moderate angst level book. Maybe because it was a bunch of smaller conflict points that popped up throughout the story and got resolved fairly quickly vs. a long build up to just one big conflict. 

This book could have been high angst, high conflict, high emotion and dark, but somehow it wasn't... I wouldn't go so far to say it was cozy, but it was kind of an easy read (or in my case listen). Good spice too!

Definitely check the content warnings. Most of the triggery content is part of the MCs backstories and described through character dialogue. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Classism, Child abuse, Child death, Sexual content, and Mental illness

Moderate: Self harm, Vomit, Infidelity, Death of parent, and Suicide

Minor: Infertility and Abortion

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

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

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

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

cup_of_rosie's review against another edition

challenging dark funny mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

I will say that I enjoyed this and the ending was very cute, and it was nice and spicy, but although I enjoyed the buildup of the relationship and the way they interacted there were certain comments that the characters made in the book which just didn’t sit right with me. For example, the FMC at one point in the book said “Seriously, if being an asshole burned calories, you’d be fucking anorexic.”, now there were certain other instances where they said things and I was like hmmm, but this one just really stuck with me because anorexia is a serious condition, it’s not something to joke about, or use as a way insult someone. So, this just really didn’t sit right with me, I did finish the book because I wanted to see where the relationship ended but I don’t think I’m going to reread due to opinions like this being made within the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Sexual content

Moderate: Drug use, Physical abuse, Car accident, and Death of parent

Minor: Abortion and Infertility