Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Something Fabulous by Alexis Hall

29 reviews

kaitlinnoodles's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Sexual content and Cursing

Moderate: Gun violence and Gaslighting

Minor: Abandonment, Acephobia/Arophobia, Alcohol, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Classism, Lesbophobia, Transphobia, Blood, Violence, Confinement, and Misogyny

shelvesofivy's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Cursing

Moderate: Classism, Gun violence, and Homophobia

Minor: Death of parent and Medical content

internalized homophobia

rosalie_pearl's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Gun violence and Death of parent

maregred's review against another edition

adventurous challenging funny sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

The Tarleton twins are insufferable and humorless and Catherine Moreland would NEVER. 

Also I just felt bad for Valentine the whole time. He was victim blamed for getting shot, and for breaking a chair he was tied up in… that poor dude deserved so much better.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Acephobia/Arophobia, and Confinement

Moderate: Kidnapping, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Death of parent, and Gun violence

wilybooklover's review

adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced

3.0

As a farce, this was ridiculously funny and camp and over the top. As a romance... it just wasn't quite there for me. Valentine was an idiot one too many times and the twins verged on too mean one too many times as well (especially Arabella). If both of those aspects were pared back just a touch then I think I'd have loved this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Gun violence, and Sexual content

Moderate: Acephobia/Arophobia, Death of parent, Homophobia, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death

kathleenmcg's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted tense fast-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: Homophobia, Classism, and Gun violence

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death of parent and Violence

saeruh's review

adventurous funny lighthearted

4.5

Such a fun read! The Tarleton twins were so delightfully over the top dramatic and Valentine was so delightfully oblivious to anything really. These aren’t SUPER fleshed out characters but I did feel emotionally attached to them while I was reading. Definitely made me laugh so much and at least put a smile on my face. From the cover, I thought this would be more of YA novel but this is definitely more of a new adult romance with sex scenes written out in detail, which is fine, just not something I expected at all going into it. Also, while is written in a historical setting, it’s much more of a modern romance/love story so I don’t if I would technically fully consider it as historical, maybe more like an alternative version of what history could have been. As a queer person myself, I loved how all of the characters (except for like two) were all delightfully queer! I’m not quite sure why this has a lower rating because I really did have fun reading it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Homophobia, and Misogyny

Minor: Death of parent

fromjuliereads's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful lighthearted 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

3.5

This was a fun read! I admit that I despised Arabella 😅 but I really liked all of the other characters, especially Valentine and Peggy! It was exactly what the back of the book promised - a good romp and pomp 😂 with some adventures of course!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Cursing, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Gun violence, Homophobia, and Misogyny

katiehasanxiety's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful lighthearted slow-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

3.5

Ok this book could and should have been way shorter. But holy steamy Batman! also I’d die for Bonnie.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Death of parent, and Homophobia

shaipanda's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted fast-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

This book is absolutely fucking ridiculous but I loved it 
It’s so over the top and so insane but in all the best ways imo 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Blood, and Gun violence

Moderate: Abandonment and Confinement

Minor: Death of parent