Reviews tagging 'Death'

Blindsided by Amy Daws

22 reviews

mizmanderz's review

emotional funny lighthearted sad 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Death

Minor: Abortion

creativekristi's review

emotional funny sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Cancer and Death

Minor: Fatphobia

lauragracel's review

emotional funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

Moderate: Death and Cancer

ronnieex's review

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted reflective sad 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Terminal illness, Grief, Death, and Cancer

Minor: Abandonment, Body shaming, and Fatphobia

crystalmackey's review

emotional funny 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Grief, and Sexual content

jelam0721's review

funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer and Death

Minor: Body shaming

kb33's review

lighthearted fast-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.5

I loved the obvious friendship between Freya and Mac, and we get to see so much of it. Dialogue and banter were pretty good. I didn’t care for the name calling and smacks to the arm/chest that Freya kept giving Mac. I also didn’t like that they were cruel to each other in the 3rd act breakup, that made it lose half a star for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Terminal illness

Minor: Grief and Death

roebschter's review

3.5

While I did enjoy the plot and the characters of this book, it has elements that made me yell "hell no" especially the internalised fatphobia and glorifying thinness even though it's supposed to be fat positive/body neutral and the sometimes toxic possessiveness surrounding their relationship and virginity. And it's often rather obvious the author isn't from the UK not just in the language but in other details as well. I still enjoyed the book and because I'm a sucker for interconnected stand-alones I'm probably going to read the Harris Brothers series. I'm definitely reading the book about Tilly and Santino because I'm very intrigued.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Minor: Fatphobia, Miscarriage, Abortion, Death, Cancer, Grief, Pregnancy, and Body shaming

coacklebee's review

emotional funny reflective relaxing 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

3.25

Thoroughly enjoyed! Laughed out loud a lot, and found some passages particularly inspiring. However, had a lot of moments where I felt like I had missed something--I thought it was a standalone, but I'm wondering if it is truly part of a series? And I wish the characters had yelled, shrieked, and bellowed slightly less. It began to feel a bit over the top. Still, very cute and funny read with a plus-size heroine, which was exactly what I was hoping it would be.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Fatphobia, Sexual content, Cancer, Alcohol, Body shaming, Grief, Medical content, Terminal illness, and Cursing

Minor: Suicide attempt, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy

plsnotanotherdamselindistress's review

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

3.75

This book was incredibly funny and I loved the dynamic of the MCs.
What I don't love is women constantly bodyshaming  and belittling themselves...I really have a limit for how much of that I can take. Except for that, loved the first half but meh to the second half because in my opinion some things that were said were not okay in any way.

This could have easily been a 4+ star book because of the humour and characters but because of the forced drama(lack of communication between best mates who talk about everything, lack of trust, things said that are not really forgivable) I liked it way less.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Body shaming, Cancer, and Sexual content

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Death, Miscarriage, Sexism, Abortion, and Suicide attempt