Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

The Pucking Wrong Number by C.R. Jane

15 reviews

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

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

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: Sexual content, Sexual harassment, and Emotional abuse

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

mizmanderz's review

dark sad tense fast-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Stalking, Rape, Kidnapping, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Addiction, Violence, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Domestic abuse, and Confinement

Minor: Child abuse

gabrielle_d20's review

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Stalking, Sexual harassment, and Sexual assault