Reviews tagging 'Bullying'

An Offer From a Gentleman by Julia Quinn

60 reviews

summerslittlelibrary's review against another edition

dark emotional funny lighthearted 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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Sexual content, Slavery, Cursing, Child abuse, and Classism

Moderate: Abandonment, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Rape, Body shaming, Sexual assault, Confinement, and Death of parent

ashleybeereads's review against another edition

emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Sexual harassment, and Sexual content

Moderate: Abandonment, Alcohol, Confinement, Grief, Death of parent, Classism, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Fatphobia, Slavery, Violence, Rape, Pregnancy, Blood, Body shaming, and Sexual assault

revengesrose's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted 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? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Classism, Emotional abuse, Bullying, Death of parent, and Sexual content

Minor: Toxic relationship and Slavery

foldingthepage_kayleigh's review against another edition

• 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Classism, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Death of parent and Police brutality

1004indeyo's review against another edition

funny lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Rape, Bullying, and Sexual harassment

autumnal_aura's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted relaxing 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? No

3.5

Benedict meets Sophie at a masked ball and falls for her. While he is rich her circumstances are difficult and when next they meet she is a maid at a country estate he is visiting. Thus begins their romance. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Slavery, Sexism, Death of parent, Violence, Classism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Bullying

syab13's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Rape, and Sexual harassment

marybeers's review against another edition

lighthearted fast-paced

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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Minor: Bullying, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship

reading_ladies_blog's review against another edition

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? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Sexual content, and Emotional abuse

meganpbennett's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.0

Have you read or seen an adaptation of Cinderella? Yes? You know how this plays out. Sophie is the "ward" of the Count, though no one ever mentions that she's clearly his byblow. He marries an evil woman with two daughters, and promptly dies. And Sophie becomes the unpaid house slave. Sound familiar? It should. It's Cinderella. This adaptation includes a masked ball, as well, where our Sophie meets Benedict Bridgerton, though she doesn't recognize him. He likes how she likes him for him, not for being Bridgerton No 2. The talk, dance, and kiss, and at the stroke of midnight, Sophie runs, as she has to be back to the house before her evil stepmother. 

Not realizing the situation, Benedict visits the house, holding the glove Sophie left behind. The stepmother figures out that the woman Benedict was looking for wasn't one of her daughters, but Sophie and kicks her out of the house. And we skip 2 years, when Benedict finds Sophie being harassed by several drunk lords and rescues her, only to fall ill. 

An Offer From A Gentleman is Cinderella, which by any other name would smell as sweet. There's some misunderstandings, some very Regency-era personalities, and an arrest. But, as expected, it ends well. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Bullying, Child abuse, Sexism, and Abandonment

Moderate: Sexual assault, Death of parent, Fatphobia, and Trafficking