Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

De férias com você by Emily Henry

435 reviews

staci64's review against another edition

lighthearted medium-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

2.75

Millennial angst and romance, like a Netflix rom-com. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content

stephjo26's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Didn’t like this one as much as some of her others. Dragged a little for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Cursing

dilani's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

5.0

i rarely read this kind of romance, but it’s clear to me that i’ve been missing out. i was expecting not to like this book but i loved it 😭 am i in my romance era??

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Alcohol, and Sexual content

Moderate: Bullying

Minor: Animal death and Pregnancy

heresyourletter's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted 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

2.5

Easy beach read that uses lots of contemporary romance tropes. I didn’t find it laugh out loud funny and felt some plot aspects could have been fleshed out more, but there were some witty lines that made me smile.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol

Moderate: Grief, Sexual content, Bullying, Cursing, and Death of parent

Minor: Drug use, Pregnancy, Medical content, Mental illness, Animal death, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship

One of the main character’s mothers passes away in childbirth before the story begins. There is discussion of how the character’s father never recovered from his grief. One main character recounts several instances of bullying from her childhood. One character is made fun of (in an unnecessarily aggressive way) by two other characters for liking reality tv. One character gets pneumonia (there is a detailed account of her illness). One minor character is described smoking marijuana. Another minor character smokes a cigarette. Lots of drinking (including one scene where the two in characters get quite drunk). A few mentions of pets that passed away. Several brief sex scenes. Occasional use of “f*ck” and other swear words.

One character has a pregnancy scare, but the tests come back negative. One character has a vasectomy. Although there is no physical cheating, the two main characters are physically affectionate and emotionally intimate, even when they are in relationships with other people. The two main characters go to therapy (separately) to work out their issues.

callistag1's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted reflective fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Alcohol, and Mental illness

Moderate: Bullying

Minor: Death of parent, Animal death, and Grief

karina_dreamsinwords'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

4.0

”home is my favorite place.”

This slow burn, friends to lovers romance filled with inside jokes, pining and tender moments was such a joy to read! I love how Emily Henry is able to create not only a beautiful love story, but one that also dives into more meaningful topics such as therapy and grief.

I actually loved the back and forth dual timeline aspect and getting to see how their friendship blossomed over the years and the current day chapters showing the aftereffects of their fractured relationship with Poppy & Alex finding their way back to each other.

I just can’t wait to pick up more from EH❤️

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Sexual content, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Minor: Animal death

daniofthewood's review against another edition

lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Grief, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Bullying

Minor: Death, Animal death, Addiction, Mental illness, Child abuse, and Drug use

ohtoasty's review against another edition

funny lighthearted medium-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

2.75

Poppy is a pretty standard wild child, desperate to get out of her hometown after experiencing some bullying (for what? I don't think we are ever clued in on this, and it feels weird that something the so directly impacted the characters mindset is not really fully thought out). She's working as full time traveler for a magazine, and is in a rut. Her relationship with her best friend and summer travel partner, Alex, is strained because of something that had happened two years ago. They are trying to start fresh now. 

Alex is.... boring. He's definitely neurodivergent, likes things done a certain way, very short with what he has to say but so incredibly caring. He has some fantastic funny lines and jokes that I wish bring his character to life more, because he pretty much is a doormat for Poppy to walk all over. Henry only writes from Poppy's perspective, so we don't get insight on to what he is thinking and why he acts the way he does. 

I liked the format Henry writes in, flashing back and forth from different summers. I think if the book were written chronologically in some sort of aspect, it would have been significantly less entertaining though. The friends to lovers trope was fine, I think this was a good way to do it, showing the time passing made them feel more platonic at the beginning overall. 

It was frustrating to read at times what was really clear that Alex was into Poppy. The way they just consistently not say anything to one another is absolutely wild and that they ignore any communications on how they're feeling. She seems to be aware that he was constantly just waiting for her to be ready to be with him (which is annoying) but she didn't want to break his heart by committing to him and then regretting or resenting him. He seemed to just exist for her, there was little pushback from him about what he wanted. Overall, I think some of it could have been done better that would have made the book better overall, because the concept was fine, but it just fell flat.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

scifi_rat's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Cancer, Grief, Alcohol, Bullying, and Sexual content

witcheep's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious reflective 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: Grief

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Sexual content, Death of parent, and Pregnancy