Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

Things We Never Got Over by Lucy Score

54 reviews

marlene27's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious tense slow-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

5.0

I’ve seen many people say they hated this book, I was shocked. This book is one of my few 5 star reads. It is absolutely amazing, it had me laughing in one chapter, crying the next, and blushing the one after that. It has the mystery, the drama, the spice, and the romance. Absolutely amazing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Kidnapping, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Gun violence and Violence

Minor: Death of parent

clara01's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious relaxing medium-paced

• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Death, Death of parent, Gun violence, and Kidnapping

Minor: Drug abuse, Infidelity, Addiction, Bullying, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Infertility, Police brutality, and Sexual harassment

ronnieex's review

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Abandonment, Physical abuse, Alcohol, Grief, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Physical abuse

antidietleah's review

emotional funny 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Moderate: Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Violence, Car accident, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Death of parent

Minor: Grief, Drug abuse, Infertility, and Addiction

samflowerv6's review

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective relaxing 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

3.0

I always enjoy a good enemies to lovers small town romance, I eat it up every time. Also, I didn’t expect this is to me a smutty adult romance, maybe because the flowery cover…. I was mislead. Also, that the MMC AND MFC were 36 and 43 years old?? It was really funny and silly with an interesting plot. I adore the side characters and small town life. Weirdly cringey in some parts and I kept thinking “how are they acting 20 years younger than they are.” Even though I enjoyed the romance and Naomi and Knox, they were really annoying and immature in MANY parts. I’ve seen a lot of criticism on the humor and descriptions but I enjoyed it for a majority of the time. I would say it’s a bit longer than it should have been but I also think it was well paced. Overall, I love Knox and Naomi but they aren’t my favorite book couple. If anything I thought Knox’s views on women were problematic and I wouldn’t date him but overall enjoyable. He was a cinnamon roll at his core though. I laughed a lot and will read the rest of the series with Nash & Lucian’s books. One of my favorite parts was the town and the whole community small town support.

“You can have anything you want. A big church wedding. A backyard barbecue. A five-figure wedding dress. But I have one demand.”
Of course it was a demand and not a request. “What’s that?”
“I want daisies in your hair.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Cursing, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Sexual content, and Violence

alesiaa's review

emotional funny slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Abandonment, Sexual content, and Physical abuse

Minor: Infertility

aimyreads's review

lighthearted slow-paced

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

1.0

Omg WHY is this book loved by so many! It’s like the writer did not have one original thought in the entire book. She read and watched romance novels and used every cringy trope out there! 
 It is simply not ok for a guy to treat you like crap one second and then be nice the next. Him giving you a ride to the mall does not erase him yelling at you or talking to you like you’re a piece of meat! 
 I swear authors and screenwriters need to stop trying to portray that men who act all gruff are hot and just because deep deep down they have a good heart it’s ok to accept their horrid mannerisms!! 
 Don’t even get me started on how pathetic Naomi’s character is! She literally has no backbone. He barges into her house and demands sex and somehow that’s supposed to be sweet. I don’t think so! 
God! How is such stupidity still published and loved by so many. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Physical abuse

isabelleroyall's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• 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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Fatphobia, Sexism, Domestic abuse, Car accident, Abandonment, Cursing, Drug abuse, Bullying, Body shaming, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Addiction, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Sexual content, Violence, Grief, and Blood

dkmchristin's review

challenging mysterious tense medium-paced

• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment and Sexual content

Moderate: Death of parent, Physical abuse, and Drug abuse

deltamarie_24's review

challenging emotional funny slow-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

3.5

Kept seeing this book being talked about everywhere and finally went for it and bought the whole series when it went on sale. I liked other peoples fan cast which originally made me want to read it. I didn’t hate the book and I enjoyed the writing but it definitely won’t go on my favorites list. It threw me off when I found out the mmc was over 40. I’m used to reading college age stuff because I still identify as a teenager 🥴 (I’m 30) so it kind of put me off a little bit with him being so old 🤣 (no offense) but I was like I’m going to give it a chance because I’m older now. That being said….

I loved the story line with Tina being the troubled twin and Naomi staying to take care of Waylay (what an odd name) the niece she didn’t know she had. That story line was perfect in my opinion it would have been much better with just that. Without the romance part because Knox sucked. He’s a 40 year old man who acts like a child. He seemed so hateful to her for no reason. He just wasn’t that lovable like some of the other characters. And then she told him the story about Warner being a dick while drunk and then he goes and basically acts just like him minus the abuse because he’s drunk when he’s the one who ended it. That whole scene rubbed me the wrong way. I did like Knox at certain parts but not enough to really make me love the book. I think I’d much rather have Naomi with Nash instead. Or just Naomi learning on her own how to be a mother to Waylay.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcohol, Gaslighting, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infertility, and Physical abuse