Reviews tagging 'Bullying'

The Fine Print by Lauren Asher

6 reviews

emmieanna's review against another edition

challenging emotional lighthearted reflective 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? Yes

3.25

3.25✨

I don’t know how to feel about this one. I think I liked the story and wanted the characters to end up together but also he is the worst kind of person. I guess that is the point but she literally did not do one thing wrong to him the whole time and he was a liar and manipulator who couldn’t admit his feelings even to himself.

That being said, I will be continuing the series because I want to see Declan eat his words and be humbled by Iris because I know that they are supposed to end up together.

Also, I love the representation of differently ambled people in this book. Anni is the best character and you can’t tell me otherwise,

plus they incorporated a positive action scheme into the park

Love love love.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Grief

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Medical content, Body shaming, Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Stalking, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Cancer, Death, Terminal illness, Ableism, Death of parent, Mental illness, and Infidelity

Minor: Ableism, Addiction, Classism, Bullying, Abortion, Alcoholism, Alcohol, and Cancer

maxthedinosaur's review

emotional funny lighthearted sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

 I did not think I would love this book so much but I did. Rowan and Zahra are one of my favorite book couples of all time. All of the characters were amazingly written and I especially loved Ani, she's definitely my favorite character. The only thing that ticks off some points for my rating is around the 2/3 mark we had like 4 sex scenes in like 100 pages and I think it was a bit excessive and I felt like they just did like the same thing in all of them and I don't really feel like there was much need for as many of them as there were. Especially since only like 2 of them came back up in conversation. Overall I love this book and I am happy to give it my first kind of 5 star of the year 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Alcoholism

Moderate: Bullying and Death of parent

Minor: Toxic relationship, Blood, Cancer, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Ableism

psydneigh's review against another edition

fast-paced

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

2.5

I hated Rowan so much. He doesn’t treat employees as people. Zahra apologies when her family mentions that they can’t afford vacations because of him which made me really dislike her judgement. Him changing was solely for the selfish desire to have Zahra, not for actual growth. Did not like this one.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Cancer, Gaslighting, Alcoholism, Bullying, Death of parent, Infidelity, and Toxic relationship

tiggerreads's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

3.5 out of 5 stars

CW: grief, depression, cancer, death of parent, past verbal abuse by parent, alcohol abuse

So, I saw a review that said that this is a good book for you if you are a Disney adult and I have to agree. Rowan was pretty much a jerk in the beginning. You were able to see that he preferred to shove his emotions down and ignore them from the beginning of the book. Zahra made him feel all sorts of things and see all sorts of things that he wasn't ready for. We learned that Rowan learned to hide his feelings and do things to gain acceptance and approval from his father. I thought it nice that he listened to Zahra about the issues that the general employees had but also went out and talked to them himself. I liked Rowan's presentation. I think it was just the right sort of grovel for Zahra. I liked how Rowan and Zahra were together but I saw how the closer they got Rowan got more frightened of that closeness. This was a good read, but I wasn't blown away.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Death of parent

Moderate: Cancer, Alcoholism, and Bullying

ezzics's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Death of parent, Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse

ajboyd_'s review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful lighthearted reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse

Minor: Death of parent and Bullying