Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Viagem Atribulada by Beth O'Leary

73 reviews

amibo's review against another edition

emotional hopeful 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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Grief, Sexual assault, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Pregnancy, Violence, Medical trauma, and Stalking

maddyspine's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted 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

4.5

Such a fun summer read, reading this got me excited for summer and road-trips. though hopefully not as disasterly as this groups road-trip.  The Road Trip is a hilarious story of two ex's who end up travelling to a wedding together. I was laughing along as the group travelled to Scotland, there are awkward and tense moments as Addie and Dylan look back on what went wrong in their relationship and misunderstandings. I thoroughly enjoyed The Road Trip, I loved the development of characters,  highly recommend for a fun summer read!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Drug use

gemin1reader's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Sexual assault

siob___'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Stalking, Toxic friendship, and Emotional abuse

mollywill's review against another edition

emotional hopeful fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse

Moderate: Rape and Stalking

Minor: Pregnancy

coffea_et_libri's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful tense medium-paced

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

3.0

I enjoyed this book but it took me a good while to become invested in the characters. Both protagonists massively annoyed me to begin with. I won’t give anything away because I think that getting to know Allie and Dylan is part of the fun and this is definitely a book where character growth is essential to plot development (and slowly uncovering layer after layer of those two pays off in the end). 

The premise plays like an early 00s rom com which I always appreciate. With this in mind, I don’t really expect books to be 100% realistic but some of the twists here felt a little too stretched. That aside, this is a well constructed book that reads easily and I will definitely read more of Beth O’Leary’s works (this was my first). 

I laughed and smiled a lot while reading this but there were also many uncomfortable moments and very important conversations about consent (a content warning here for harassment, rape and emotional manipulation). There is a big theme of moving on / forgiveness with this one and, again, some of the book felt uncomfortable / unfair to the characters’ growth in the way it played off (obviously this feeling stems from my personal experiences rather than anything else so others may completely disagree with this). 

I will give this one ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Drug abuse, and Emotional abuse

sydneyj's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Stalking, and Toxic friendship

getbrekked's review against another edition

emotional hopeful 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Sexual assault, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Homophobia, Vomit, and Violence

taynicole2698's review against another edition

emotional hopeful tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Addiction, Emotional abuse, Toxic friendship, Drug abuse, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Death of parent, Stalking, and Physical abuse

Minor: Car accident, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Grief, Homophobia, Violence, and Mental illness

fayereadsbooks's review against another edition

emotional funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I enjoyed reading Beth O'Leary's third book. I doubt anything will top the Flatshare for me but this was a totally fab read.

The book follows the story of Addie and Dylan and is told in a then and now narrative. Then follows Addie and Dylan meeting, their relationship and their eventual break up. Now is about when driving to a mutual friends wedding, they crash into each other and have to do the very long journey with a mis-matched car full, and naturally chaos endues. 

I enjoyed reading both characters perspectives but wasn't overly fond of either of them, they were both pretty good but nothing memorable. Dylan is very privileged and his group of friends reminded me of people from the TV show Made In Chelsea, they are just so fancy but in a way they don't realise how privileged and lucky they are. 

For the first around half of the book I thought it was okay but I especially enjoyed the second half. I liked the ending of the book and thought all of the plot points and storylines were were concluded and wrapped up well

There were a few topics that I didn't expect to be in a book like this so I definitely advise checking content warnings 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Toxic friendship, and Car accident

Minor: Eating disorder, Vomit, Homophobia, Pregnancy, Stalking, and Violence