Reviews with content warning for Toxic relationship - The Comeback

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jackieyvette's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-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

4.75

This was a beautifully written. Heavy topics and a lot of emotional parts throughout.
Everyone in the book is flawed. From Grace to Esme to Dylan to Laurel to the parents and everyone beyond that, but even the flawed are great to read about here.
I loved Grace and Esme so much they felt like people I knew. Their mother was such a shit mom, but such an interesting character. Laurel was such a great friend but had so many moments where I wanted to shake her and say this isn't right and you know it. Dylan was somehow simultaneously a great and horrible husband. Everyone else sucks.

I wish Able would have died in that car accident and I wish Emelia was with them when it happened.

Crying score: cry-angle at the ready.

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stepnic's review

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dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-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? Yes

5.0

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booktwinning's review

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challenging emotional reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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lysh_reads's review against another edition

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dark emotional 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

4.5

This book has my heart. It was so near a 5 star book for me.

Grace is such a well written complicated character. Sometimes I feel like people write characters who have experienced trauma and don’t think about how that all later reflects in their actions and decision making but everything about Grace was perfect.

Beyond the fact this book touches on a topic rarely talked about in Hollywood, even with the #metoo movement and is still an even rarer topic is literature, the story of Grace being a child star, groomed by the man who founded her career and then left her to deal with the shattered pieces of her life, I’m so utterly touched with how well this book dealt with such a complex issue.

I absolutely loved Grace and the complexity of the relationships with Esme, Dylan, Laurel, Emilia and her parents. There were times I wanted to strangle her but knowing the trauma she’d experienced, her reactions and choices were all logical to her character.

I’m a little disappointed that we didn’t see actual justice served to Able but the epilogue and seeing Grace happy kinda makes up for it. Plus, I feel like it’s very realistic for criminal charges to be up in the air still and no real justice having been served still a year later

So glad I stumbled upon this book in my library’s catalogue because I don’t think it’s something I would have picked up otherwise.

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