Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

The Favor by Suzanne Wright

20 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

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

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

yoohanna's review

relaxing medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Mental illness, Child death, and Death of parent

carla20's review

dark 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? No

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Vomit, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

hsteel's review against another edition

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gaslighting, Death of parent, and Child abuse

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