Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

The Pucking Wrong Number by C.R. Jane

25 reviews

izziepng's review

3.0

all of the complaints about this book are correct and you should take them very seriously 

however

this is the funniest fucking book i’ve ever read and ik it’s not written to be funny but it just is 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, and Classism

megatza's review

dark emotional fast-paced

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

2.0

Even knowing the CWs for this book, I wasn't totally prepared for *how* dark it got. Stalkers are not my jam, the hockey itself was mediocre, the romance had nothing for me. The author did give the FMC (who was *barely 18*) some personal agency, and there was recognition that she didn't totally feel great falling in love with a hockey player who basically held her captive...so it gets 2⭐️ and not 1⭐️. But oof this book was NOT for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Stalking, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Addiction and Abandonment

Minor: Vomit

CWs are all listed at the beginning of the book and are very helpful!

nlapean's review

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.75

This book is a walking red flag, but I loved it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Sexual harassment

aytac's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Confinement, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

risseandshine's review

challenging

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

theartistreader's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

TROPES:
- Ice hockey
- Obsessed hero with psychotic tendencies
- If I can't have you, nobody can
- Wrong number/mistaken identity
- Virgin heroine
- OTT & protective hero

I saw this allover BookTok and I always get nervous about reading its recs because I worry that they won't live up to the hype. Rest assured, this definitely did!

I can sometimes struggle to get through ice hockey romances because they can be really long or slow paced, but this was literally everything I needed and more. I did it in one sitting, and now I'm annoyed that book 2 isn't available yet. Roll on book 2!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

my_name_is_jess's review

dark fast-paced

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

1.0

Yikes. This book is really doing the most and trying so hard to be a dark romance but it sailed right past "dark" and landed firmly in cringe territory. There are trigger warnings at the beginning but I don’t feel they really encompass what actually takes place in this book. While I considered putting this down and never picking it up again several times, I absolutely should have DNF’d when he

broke into her apartment while she slept and wiped his cum on her lips

because it only got worse from there. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Kidnapping, and Sexual harassment

taylormshipley's review

dark emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Stalking, and Death of parent

Moderate: Addiction

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders and Physical abuse

hmb86's review

dark medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Addiction, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, and Abandonment

araceli1022's review

1.5

!!!!SPOILERS!!!!

This was not was I was expecting at all, and not in a good way. So at first I thought this was going pretty well, the story was great. But then the main male character started to get creepy and too possessive for my liking. He would do things like not take no to a date for an answer, hire a private investigator on the female main character to stalk her and follow her around town, tell her employers to fire her or not give her work, tell anyone else to not hire her and go as far as break into her house to masterbate next to her while she was sleeping, then drug her when she finds out some of the crazy things he did. After being drugged he then wakes her up by assaulting her. He just kept on manipulating her at every chance. I did not like the vibes of this book from like 25% in but I wanted to stick it out and finish to see if it got better and it did not.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Addiction and Death