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shantyreads's review
- Loveable characters? Yes
5.0
Minor: Cancer, Rape, Child abuse, and Domestic abuse
sophiemartin's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Graphic: Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, Rape, and Child abuse
Moderate: Cancer and Death of parent
kaslyndav's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
Graphic: Sexual content, Rape, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, and Physical abuse
Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Rape
Minor: Murder, Terminal illness, Death of parent, and Cancer
amanda_reads13's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
Graphic: Grief, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual content, Child abuse, and Emotional abuse
Minor: Death of parent and Cancer
kendrakeuler's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Grief, Mental illness, Rape, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Child abuse, Alcohol, Cancer, Alcoholism, and Death
Moderate: Mental illness, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Cursing, Emotional abuse, and Grief
Minor: Cursing, Grief, Mental illness, Stalking, and Bullying
pippamillerxoxo_'s review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Graphic: Cancer, Death of parent, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Physical abuse, Grief, Rape, Sexual assault, and Domestic abuse
culzean's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Grief, Death of parent, Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Alcohol, Cancer, Classism, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Blood, Body horror, Misogyny, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Torture, and Violence
im_just_vidu's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
And it's not also not JUST a romance book. It's also facing problems, trauma, dark past, PTSD, trying to get better, slowly healing and many more. It feels more realistic because of that. This is a sport romance by the definition of it. Not just "I play sports" kinda one. It's "I gave my blood and sweat for this and sports are my life" kinda one.
First of all I like Hannah's characters. She's not "I'm the top student, I study 24/7" type student. She's a good singer, get scholarships by her own hard work and be there for her friends. She helps her friends to get better with their grades too. She's an idol student since the beginning. It's true that she got traumatic past but she's trying her best to not let that prevent her from living her life.
Garrett is also ideal sports student who does best in sports and yet get his academic done. He's a good player and also a leader. For him, sports is his life. Anything else isn't gonna change his life. He's a closed open book. You see everything about him but sometimes you don't know anything about him. Being a son of the top hockey player, he have this huge responsibility of proving his value to the world. Sometimes it's unfair that you get judged by your parent's reputation, but it's inevitable.
Justin is Hannah's love interest, who is a football player. Glimpse of Justin can make Hannah pass-out from happiness. In Hannah's eyes, there's no other one who's perfect like Justin.
The story starts with Garrett wanting to get good grades and asking Hannah for help with that. It's so cute to see how Garrett basically begging to Hannah and how they tease each other. Hannah on the other hand is only interested in Justin, so it's not easy for Garrett to make her tutor him.
I swear those few chapters in the beginning were the cutest. Those push and pull friendship they have is so wholesome.
I listened to the audiobook for most of the parts of the book and sometimes read while listening to the audiobook. I listened to the audiobook while I'm in the bus and boy it was the stupidest idea ever. Things got steamy sometimes and I blushed like a tomato. Good thing that I was wearing a mask cuz I was melting and getting red. Reading smut in the public transportation is something I've mastered, but listening to an audiobook? Moreover when things get spicy. Oh boy. Audible audiobook was narrated well so they do a perfect job with narrating all small sound effects. If you're a person who blush like crazy, I would recommend you to avoid public places while listening to audiobook.
So overall I loved this book. I surely am gonna continue reading this series cuz Elle Kennedy's writing is so good. If you're an adult who's looking for a cute romance, I would like to recommend this to you. (If you're a minor, I think you should wait until you grow up. Not recommend for minors at all) I can see myself reread this book in the future. It's so good.
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, Domestic abuse, and Sexual violence
Minor: Grief, Death of parent, and Cancer
readwithria's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
HOWEVER, as a singer I could not get past the misuse of music theory jargon. Like damn, I don’t expect an author to be an expert on every interest their characters have, but wow it was distracting. Luckily it stopped pretty early in the book, but oof it hurt my heart. That’s what kept this from being a four star book.
What kept this from being a five star book was mostly the lack of trigger warnings and the casual misogyny. The spice was good, the relationship development was good, I liked the balance of plot and romance, and I loved the strangers to enemies to friends to lovers pipeline! But please, read trigger warnings before you read this book.
All in all, I really enjoyed this book and will probably read the rest of the series at some point. 3.5 stars.
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Misogyny, and Rape
Minor: Alcohol, Cursing, Death of parent, Cancer, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail
kb33's review against another edition
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.0
This book had some heavy topics, but it was still an easy read.
Graphic: Rape
Moderate: Child abuse and Domestic abuse
Minor: Cancer and Death of parent