Reviews tagging 'Car accident'

The Comeback by Ella Berman

11 reviews

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Addiction, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexism, Alcohol, Gaslighting, Grief, Self harm, Sexual content, Abandonment, Body shaming, Car accident, Child abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship

stepnic's review

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Mental illness, Car accident, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Drug abuse, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Infidelity, Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, and Abandonment

Minor: Transphobia, Suicide attempt, Eating disorder, and Injury/Injury detail

mcdermot's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Addiction, Mental illness, Child abuse, Sexual harassment, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Car accident, Sexual assault, and Drug use

ashleereadsbooks692's review

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Car accident, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Grief, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Bullying, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

pcataldo's review

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

I really liked this book! Grace really grew on me. I didn't like her at first. The ending was a bit predictable, but still good. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Addiction, Child abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Sexual assault, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Car accident, Self harm, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Homophobia and Injury/Injury detail

phua_jieying's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Sexual assault, and Drug use

Minor: Transphobia

scam_lark's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Car accident, Drug abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, and Suicide attempt

kelly_twardziak's review

dark emotional reflective sad 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? It's complicated

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Car accident, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, and Sexual assault

bookedupbabe's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Car accident, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

lysh_reads's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Addiction, Alcoholism, Car accident, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship