Reviews - Long Shot | The StoryGraph

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Long Shot

Kennedy Ryan

4.18 AVERAGE

pixelfulll's review against another edition

3.0

emotionally not ok

michelleleao10's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Whew this was an emotionally heavy one. Prepare yourself before picking it up (see the content warnings). It was hard to get through the first half because of the dark heavy themes, but worthwhile!

armalone's review against another edition

2.0

2.5⭐️⭐️✨

abookreadernamedmorgan's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional inspiring medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

anglikestoread's review against another edition

4.0

emotional hopeful inspiring 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

Content Warnings

nka_reads's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH

I finished this book but I can't rate it and I can't pretend I read it all because I skimmed the entirety of this book. Hard TW: The first half of this book - so like 200 pages - is about the heroine being in an incredibly abusive, increasingly violent relationship. I'm talking about many extremely graphic on-the-page domestic violence and extremely violent rape scenes.

The second half of the novel is her healing - but the threat of her abuser is always there, for reasons I won't spoil. It was impossible for me to get into a romance/ enjoy explicit sex scenes after reading the first half of the novel.

This book, from the cover to the description to the "forbidden love set in the explosive world of the NBA" headline completely misrepresents what the book is actually about in my opinion in a really irresponsible way. I'm all for having a character whose been through trauma finding love and re-discovering/ re-claiming their sexuality. But the extent of on-the-page violence in a romance-genre book that describes itself as a "forbidden romance"... was just way too much.

rayswithabang's review against another edition

5.0

4.5

for someone who hates sports i sure do like sports romances. this book made me feel EVERYTHING. content warning for domestic and sexual abuse. i appreciated the way Kennedy Ryan handled this, her commentary around outsiders' opinions on abusive relationships, and that she took Iris's healing seriously.