Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Kiss Her Once For Me by Alison Cochrun

107 reviews

katelynprice's review

emotional hopeful medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Sexual content

Moderate: Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, and Abandonment

Minor: Biphobia and Transphobia

lady_valhella's review

emotional 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse

Moderate: Abandonment and Toxic relationship

ninebookishlives's review

emotional funny lighthearted

4.25

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Content Warnings

Minor: Homophobia and Emotional abuse

amandab0514's review

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders and Sexual content

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Infidelity, and Alcohol

readandfindout's review

medium-paced

3.5

Style/writing: 3.5 stars
Themes: 4 stars
Characters: 4 stars
Plot: 2.5 stars

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Abandonment, Lesbophobia, Biphobia, Infidelity, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, and Child abuse

Minor: Ableism, Gaslighting, Racism, Misogyny, Transphobia, Death, and Body shaming

percervall's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Child abuse, and Toxic relationship

cassiecraycray's review

funny medium-paced

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

2.75

I struggled through this book, it had a weird pace to it and I ended up skimming about half of it. I definitely wanted to like this book more than I actually did. This entire book was messy, and some parts were fun but Ellie anxiously panicking about everything killed some of the drama for me.
Ellie is a Mess, she's anxious and annoying as hell, completely paralyzed by fear of failure and I just did not like her at all. The Kim-Prescott Family was lovely and I wish we got more with the grandmas because they were my favorite part of this entire book. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse

haileyhardcover's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring fast-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

Very recently, in a review for a book I was massively disappointed by, I wrote that I hate first person point of view and it never reads well. I take it back. It sometimes reads very, very well. Case in point, Kiss Her Once for Me.

I loved this book. It was everything I wanted in a sapphic Christmas romcom. Ellie and Jack were both delightful and seemed to be fully fleshed out characters. Even when Ellie was thinking completely illogically, I still fully understood her thought process and how she could feel and respond the way she did. The characters made SENSE, even when they weren’t making sense. Fully developed characters are my favorite. Also, Meemaw and Lovey? Iconic. I’m obsessed. 

Though the premise of this story isn’t unique (why are there SO MANY sapphic holiday books that involve fake-dating the brother of the girl the MC ends up falling for??), this was well executed. The characters were all so easy to love, the pace was perfect, the spice (though brief) was good, and it made me both laugh and cry. The one thing I would’ve loved was for the bits of Ellie’s webcomic “Snow Day” to have actually included the art. It was very cool to read Ellie & Jack’s origin story through her eyes in that way, woven throughout the rest of the story, but it would’ve been so cool for the book to be part graphic novel in that way. I would love to see a special edition come out that included the webcomic as Ellie would’ve published it. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Abandonment, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, and Alcohol

Minor: Bullying, Body shaming, and Biphobia

ladygetslit's review

emotional hopeful lighthearted reflective fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Biphobia, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, and Mental illness

kathrynok's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Emotional abuse, Biphobia, and Drug use