Reviews tagging 'Grief'

The Pucking Wrong Number by C.R. Jane

24 reviews

ronnieex's review

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Sexual content, and Abandonment

Moderate: Grief and Toxic relationship

Minor: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Sexual harassment

taylorbuck's review against another edition

0.25

TW: SA

This is a dark “romance” where the MMC happens to play hockey. There’s no tags or CWs anywhere in sight and it’s very poorly written. There’s a whole host of issues with the book itself but also this author behaves badly. Reporting low reviews and bashing bad reviews. Towards the end of the book she tells in no during a sexual encounter and he continues on. It is not CNC it’s straight up rape. Just because it’s not explicitly physically violent doesn’t make it something else.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Stalking, Sexual violence, Confinement, Panic attacks/disorders, Child abuse, Classism, Gaslighting, Addiction, Domestic abuse, Grief, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Rape

I wouldn’t recommend supporting this author

hellxriver's review

dark fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Sexual content, and Confinement

Moderate: Grief, Death of parent, and Death

Minor: Infidelity and Suicidal thoughts

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

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

amanda_reads13's review

dark fast-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

2.5

Monroe is starting over in a new city when she gets a text from a wrong number. That text happens to be from Lincoln, the NHL golden boy. He instantly becomes obsessed with her and will stop at nothing to make her his. 

Lincoln deals with his pain by channelling his energy into hockey and obsessing over Monroe. Hockey by day, stalking and manipulating Monroe by night. 

Through most of her life, Monroe deals with her pain by working hard to overcome her terrible situation. Once she becomes the object of Lincoln's obsession, she tries to fight his hold on her and tries to remain independent, but eventually realizes there is no point. After everything this psychopath has done, he manages to manipulate her into becoming solely dependent on him. 

Both Lincoln and Monroe have endured horrific childhoods, I think they need therapy more than anything else. 

Tropes: touch her/you die, toxic, obsessed, opposites attract, dark, instalust

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Child abuse, Grief, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Stalking, Sexual harassment, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Panic attacks/disorders, and Confinement

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

stuffandwhatnot's review

dark

3.5

Has a serious tone/plot dissonance. It's kind of like those recut movie trailers, where they make The Shining sound like a rom-com or Mrs Doubtfire like a horror movie. This is an obsessed/stalker dark romance with a rom-com tone. And it's a boiled frog stalker. Like, he starts out doing suspicious but still within the rom-com realm of possibility stuff, like googling her and getting a background check run, then progresses to driving by her place, then breaking in while she sleeps, Edward Cullen-style. 

By the end after

he's gotten her evicted, fired, and totally dependent upon him and she learns this and tries to leave, he drugs and chains her in his apartment (after letting the reader know that he's got a tracking device in her birth control implant)

I was like, well, I should've expected that to happen. At that point, if I'd learned

he actually DID kill his brother, I don't think I would've been that surprised.

But it still works because his over the top obsessiveness fits perfectly with her abandonment issues. I mean, these people desperately need therapy, but they got a HEA that works for both of them, I guess.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment and Stalking

Moderate: Child abuse and Grief

vee79's review

dark emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, and Stalking

Minor: Sexual harassment, Panic attacks/disorders, Child abuse, and Death of parent

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