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Redeemed by Lauren Asher

11 reviews

wannabe_lee's review against another edition

hopeful lighthearted sad medium-paced

• 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Addiction, Mental illness, Drug use, Medical trauma, Alcohol, Car accident, Abandonment, Drug abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Death of parent and Confinement

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual harassment, Miscarriage, and Pedophilia

nineinchnails's review

emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.0

this is such a big improvement from the first 3 books. it helped that we didn’t meet the fmc in the earlier books & she wasn’t hinted at before we got to this book bc that usually takes a lot of the fun out for me with interconnected standalones - i hate anything being spoiled and it feels like one big spoiler. we saw a lot of santiago before redeemed so we can really appreciate the change in him in a way that would be harder for us to conceptualise had we not known him 3 books ago!

also this is probably a me issue but the message of this book felt very “yeah life sucks but stop acknowledging how much it sucks and get over it already” and i hate that in otherwise lighthearted books i didn’t come here for a lecture😭

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Confinement, Sexual content, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, and Abandonment

Minor: Ableism, Addiction, Death of parent, Child abuse, Drug use, Drug abuse, and Miscarriage

Amputation, Phantom pain, Claustrophobia, Opioid abuse, Depression, Trauma and Child neglect

ka_ke's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted fast-paced

• 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

4.0

Meh, after the last book, Redeemed has something missing. Maybe it is just too predictable, or maybe it’s just a lame way to end an otherwise enjoyable series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Abandonment, Cursing, Mental illness, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Addiction, Pregnancy, Emotional abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Drug abuse, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, and Body shaming

saj04's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful lighthearted reflective fast-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Miscarriage

zayyssa's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring relaxing medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Animal death, Child abuse, Abandonment, Death of parent, Deadnaming, Death, and Grief

Blackmail.

marine2907'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
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Death, Death of parent, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Addiction, Car accident, Medical content, Toxic relationship, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, and Sexual content

barocap001's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident

Moderate: Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical trauma

Minor: Miscarriage, Abandonment, Child abuse, and Death of parent

finnickdeservedbetter's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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

5.0

Tropes/Themes:

fake dating, one bed, spicy bet, redemption, healing from trauma, millionaire, disability rep, and a bit of found family

I liked this book more than I thought I would. And not because I didn't like the others (I obviously wouldn't have made it to book four if I hated them). They were 5☆, 4.25☆, and 5☆. And this is also a 5☆. It's pretty much underheard of for me to have three 5☆ in a series but I loved it.

I bought physical copies of them all before I even got to book three. I'm not usually a sports romance person but it's honestly one of my new favourite series. I haven't even started Dreamland Billionaires but it doesn't matter, Lauren Asher is now an instant buy author for me. 

Onto the book though...like I said, I liked it more than I expected to. I feel like the last book in an interconnected standalone can often be the least favourite or least consequential person in the friend group but that was definitely not the case with Redeemed. Santiago and Chloe's story felt just as fleshed out, if not more so, as the other couples. I loved seeing the disability rep, both the negative and positive moments. The inclusion feels authentic and natural. 

No spoilers of course but...I sobbed like a baby at the end of the book (in a good way). I've often been called overemotional but I think it was totally justified. All in all, if you're in a slump or just want a good cry, this'll be perfect for you.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident and Sexual content

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Child abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Medical content, Miscarriage, Death of parent, and Pedophilia

andeng's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Abandonment, Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Car accident, and Drug use

Moderate: Death of parent, Infertility, Medical content, and Miscarriage

erinshae123's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Abandonment, and Child abuse

Minor: Miscarriage