Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez

804 reviews

eabbenante's review against another edition

4.5

challenging emotional funny hopeful 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

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Love the ideas of if you can choose empathy over anger, always choose empathy and meeting someone where they are. 

It’s really great to read love stories about grown people learning to deal with their trauma. It’s a nice change of pace and it helps me think about who I want to be and reminds me it’s not too late to try to get there. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Abandonment

Moderate: Child abuse, Mental illness, Death of parent

Minor: Alcoholism, Cursing, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Car accident

mj_86's review against another edition

4.0

emotional funny hopeful 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Abandonment

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent

Minor: Vomit, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury

the_romance_bookie's review against another edition

4.5

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Abandonment

garbage_mcsmutly's review against another edition

4.5

emotional fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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📖 Honestly if there had just been more explicit spice I would probably 5 star this, it's a really compelling story about someone who's had a very traumatic upbringing and who has to reckon with all of that in order to become the person she's meant to be. I don't have personal experience with the mental illness or trauma that appear in the book but it seemed like the author treated these issues with great care and respect. 

🎧 This was dual POV, and dual narration. Both narrators were skilled. I'm a fan of the male narrator more generally, I always enjoy his delivery. When they were texting each other, the voices were duet style, but in the majority of the text it was just each narrator reading all the parts in their chapter. So I was a little disappointed it wasn't full duet.

🌶️ 2/5 There's really only one sex scene and it's depicted rather circumspectly. One of the few things I think this book could do better on.

🏳️‍🌈✊ I think the book is great at depicting a variety of life circumstances (traumatic/neglectful childhood, loss of a parent, someone incarcerated) but there wasn't much traditional (POC, lgbtqia+) diversity. FMC's foster parents are both women? We never see them on page though, just referenced as background.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Abandonment

Moderate: Confinement, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Vomit, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting

Minor: Medical content, Car accident, Death of parent

sjburton127's review against another edition

3.0

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Abandonment

rebekistan's review against another edition

5.0

emotional funny lighthearted sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse

aishaabdelhamid's review against another edition

4.25

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Abandonment

Moderate: Child abuse

imds's review against another edition

3.75

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment

moriahleigh's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Vomit, Grief, Abandonment

madanxiety's review against another edition

5.0

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It was refreshing to read a romcom that's actually funny instead of cringey because it's trying to be funny. To be clear, I wasn't hooting and hollering or anything, but the cheeky banter between the characters felt real instead of contrived. A really good, balanced romance novel that stands apart from others despite, of course, relying on several classic conventions/tropes of the genre. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Mental illness, Abandonment

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent