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becca_w_'s review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Violence, Confinement, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Sexual content, Child death, Child abuse, Gore, Grief, Medical content, Vomit, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Medical trauma, Toxic friendship, Classism, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Infertility, Physical abuse, Alcoholism, Blood, Bullying, Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Rape, and Sexual assault
Moderate: Emotional abuse and Abandonment
Minor: Mental illness and Adult/minor relationship
I put the adult/minor relationship tag because technically speaking there is a relationship between an 18 year old and a 15 year old. That said, the age gap is 2 and a half years and isn't too much cause for concern in my opinion.aggielexi's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
Oh this book. It popped up all over my social media and nothing but "OMG COLLEEN HOOVER IS AMAZING" or as the quote on the cover of the book says "Every person with a heartbeat should read this book."
I disagree. First off, not that I think every book needs a trigger warning, but for this SUPER popular book to come up and no one says "oh heads up there are quite a few trigger warnings needed" especially considering the quote on the cover! I was blindsided. I struggled with figuring out why I didn't like this and finally landed on because I was manipulated. I was expecting this amazing love triangle and got instead this horrible situation after horrible situation. I'll skip book two, and likely the movie as well.
Graphic: Rape
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse
Minor: Death of parent and Gun violence
laura_the_explorer's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and Sexual content
Minor: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Death of parent, and Suicidal thoughts
_alyssar_'s review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Rape, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Vomit, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Domestic abuse, Alcohol, Death, Death of parent, Blood, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, and Sexual violence
Minor: Infertility, Suicide, Panic attacks/disorders, Child abuse, and Terminal illness
blve0live's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.25
Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Gun violence
Minor: Abandonment and Alcohol
breeinreadingland's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.5
Graphic: Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Violence
Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Gun violence, and Child abuse
mjfawcett's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
1.5
Listen I know this is a stupid thing to get caught up on. But the book lost me on page 1 when the character feels like hanging out on a rooftop, uses Google Earth to look for nearby apartment buildings with rooftops, and then just like, goes to one and somehow gets onto the roof. Later we learn it’s a luxury building full of rich people penthouses. Do they not lock the building????? Is there no doorman wondering why a sketchy 23 year old is lurking around???? My immediate impression was, “ok so this author has never lived in or been to an apartment building.”
Also the fact that the character is named Lily Blossom Bloom and she owns a flower shop at age 23. And the creepy love interest is a med school student yet calls himself Dr. Kincaid and somehow is fabulously wealthy and can buy a 3 bedroom apartment ?? TMI but once I went on a date with a med school student and he used Kleenex as napkins and had almost no furniture in his rented studio apartment. So now we know the author has no concept of money or med school either.
Don’t even get me started on the teenage diary entries written as letters to Ellen Degeneres that take up half the book. Or the fact that in the diaries Lily Blossom Bloom recounts entire conversations in quotes. Oh and of course the other character names are Atlas, Ryle, Allysa, Rylee and Emmy Dori because the author apparently hasn’t met normal humans with normal names either.
This is the first and only Colleen Hoover book I’ll ever read!
Graphic: Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Self harm, Pregnancy, Gun violence, Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, Infertility, Physical abuse, Violence, Suicide, Rape, Child death, Child abuse, Abandonment, and Alcohol
zoewright's review against another edition
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
1.75
Graphic: Domestic abuse and Gun violence
Moderate: Sexual assault and Suicidal thoughts
lytskewijma'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? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Domestic abuse
Minor: Gun violence
medini_l's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Gun violence, Alcohol, Rape, Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Blood, and Death of parent
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Self harm