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Reviews tagging 'Medical content'
The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy by Brigitte Knightley
62 reviews
This book has no pretenses. It isn't setting up an epic fantasy arc. It doesn't claim to be the next ACOTAR or Fourth Wing. This book knows its destiny is to be a romp of devilry and charm. It's irreverent, it's delightful caricature, it's pure fluff for when you just want an easy read with a healthy dose of mostly well-executed banter.
The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy has a dark humor to it that belies its lightheartedness, which is what I think worked so well for me. You'll either enjoy it or you'll hate it, but either way, you'll finish and immediately look up when the sequel releases.
Graphic: Blood, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Child death, Sexual content, Murder, Classism
Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Terminal illness, Medical content
Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder
Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic
It took me a while to get into the humour of this book, at first I found it a little bit silly, but as soon as I started to get used to the rhythm and flow I couldn’t put it down. Osric and Aurienne are textbook enemies to lovers with the chemistry practically steaming off the page, I ended up loving them both and rooting for their relationship to go somewhere. The worldbuilding is interesting, dark, almost steampunk or gothic in the way it’s portrayed and quite different to anything I’ve read before. I loved the snappy sidekick characters and laughed out loud a few times at their antics. Overall, I really enjoyed my time in the world and that ending?!?! - I will be picking up the sequel the moment it’s released.
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Torture, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic
Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Gore, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Child death, Sexual content, Torture, Violence
Graphic: Violence, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic
Graphic: Child death, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Murder
Moderate: Sexual content
Minor: Child abuse, War
I reserve the right to bump this up to 5⭐ after reading the second book, since it is only half of the story. I'm excited to see how it all ties together.
Graphic: Gore, Violence, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Chronic illness, Sexual content, Medical content, Pandemic/Epidemic
Minor: Child death, Sexual assault, Torture, Alcohol
PROS
- the indie bookstore I bought it from put the sales of this book to a trans organization.
- deofols.
- the MMC was quippy and really what kept me reading.
- artwork on the cover is beautiful.
CONS
- it's not a cliffhanger if you feel like there are pages missing.
- for a story based on fanfiction...that is not actually fanfiction... you sure are expected to just know a lot about the world.
- though the overall idea is interesting...most of the plot is boring and repetitive.
In the end, I would probably read the second one to find out what happened to the children, but I would just wait for however long on Libby.
Moderate: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Physical abuse, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail