Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

The Fine Print by Lauren Asher

73 reviews

culzean's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful inspiring 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Sexual content, Child abuse, Death of parent, Classism, Cursing, Blood, Death, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Terminal illness, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

ka_ke's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted 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

5.0

The perfect lighthearted rom-com in 1 book. While everyone knows how these stories end, Lauren Asher keeps it fresh and modern by putting Zahra in a position of power that she would have had regardless of Rowan’s involvement. Lauren also adequately mentions a lack of diversity among amusement parks for people with disabilities. All in all, this may be a new favourite comfort read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Grief, Sexual content, Blood, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Medical content, Alcoholism, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Ableism, Child abuse, and Addiction

Minor: Pregnancy

zc2's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted 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? It's complicated

4.75

I would say it would be one of my favorites however I feel like

they shouldn’t have been together. I was mad that Zahra took him back after the whole hospital scene( which really pissed me off cause he treated her like a burden in which I was like wtf is wrong with you she’s laying in a hospital bed where she almost died , and bestie is all like oh if she died in my bathroom that would suck/ be a lot of paper work. Bro really made me mad there like fr) miss girl put so much trust in him like he had her heart and soul wrapped around his fingers and he squished her heart like a grape. My trust issues are far more extreme I would have left him to get hit by a car and not care by that point.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Self harm, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Alcoholism, Blood, Body shaming, Cancer, Death, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Toxic relationship

llsugarspicell's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective tense fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Sexual content, Death of parent, and Cancer

Moderate: Abandonment, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Child abuse

jennyslibrary's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted medium-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

3.75

🌶🌶🌶
This book was a light read, funny, grumpy x sunshine trope, a little enemies to lovers, and happy ending. It had me squealing by the end of it, because the development of the characters were such a huge plot point in the story.
The reasoning behind me giving the fine print only 3,75 stars, is because I felt the writing was a little all over the place, and didn’t exactly fulfill my expectations for a 4 star read. The main love interest was also a major red flag at times, but he picked up in the end and came out as not to bad after all. I did enjoy the relationships with family and friends in the end, and would definitely pick up this book to scour for future book ideas, as it had some key points worth noticing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship and Sexual content

Moderate: Alcoholism

Minor: Blood, Suicidal thoughts, and Cancer

Although I thought the book came off as a red flag sometimes (as I wrote in my review), as I look back at it now I don’t really think so. The book had so many loveable moments with the main characters, and you grow to love them more and more throughout the book. And as I have read terms and conditions (the next book in the duology) and have seen there

that the characters are as much in love as ever, I would find it easier to go back to the fine print again for a second time. Because their relationship may be complicated in the beginning, but after a few heartbroken pages with tear stained spots on the paper, you know you have grown to care for the names written across them

sami_leigh's review

emotional hopeful medium-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

🌶🌶.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Grief, Mental illness, Death of parent, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Pregnancy

tyler_hmac's review

emotional 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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Self harm

tiannakelly's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Ableism, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Alcoholism

chrissiraab's review against another edition

funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.0

honestly i had second hand embarrassment for zahra when she started crying at the board meeting bc of the presentation like ik it’s nice what he’s doing but come on be professional. also after the meeting when she confronted the father? imagine waking out of your sons meeting ready to go home just to have a woman you’ve never spoken to or met tell you all your flaws (which he has and she was right to point them out) to then tell you to fuck off, blow a kiss to an old woman and flip you the finger i- 
and rowan really isn’t that big of a deal. he could have easily avoided getting ‘heartbroken’ and breaking zahras heart if this dude just went to therapy. he has so much emotional trauma and childhood trauma he can’t just “fix” himself bc he saw zahras presentation and is moved. i’m pretty sure if this were real life they would have broken up after a couple of months again just bc he does not know how to function and it would just hurt her to stay

loved every scene ani, cal and claire were in they carried this book fr 😩👏

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship and Emotional abuse

dianaschmidty's review

funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted relaxing sad fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Medical content, Toxic relationship, Ableism, Abandonment, and Alcoholism