Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

Flawless: Number 2 in series by Sara Shepard

18 reviews

blueyekyanite's review against another edition

4.25

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Stalking, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Murder, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, Dysphoria

veskumelooni's review against another edition

3.5

mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Death, Eating disorder, Incest, Sexual assault, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Murder

highladymagnus's review against another edition

5.0

lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Eating disorder, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, Toxic friendship

fanboyriot's review against another edition

4.0

mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Read For:

✓ Broken Families

✓ Even More Trouble 

✓ Small Town Gossip

✓ Relationship Problems

✓ “A” Starting Some Drama

˗ˏˋ ★ REVIEW ★ ˎˊ˗

Lots of problems start for Hanna, Emily, Aria, and Spencer along with “A” being more involved in their lives. Hanna starting her drama with her dad, honestly can’t stand him.  Just let Hanna have some peace dude. Spencer’s parents really shine in this book.  It’s almost laughable with how cruel they are for such stupid reasons.  And yet Spencer still manages to mess everything up for herself.

Aria’s dad falling back into old habits and this time Mike is let in on the secret too which ends as well as you would think. Emily and her trusting nature is honestly kinda impressive to be that level of delusional.  Though her parents being the way they are it’s not all that surprising.  At least she came to terms a bit with the feelings she had towards Ali.

Spice Level: n/a

Angst Level: 💧

POV: Multiple, Third Person

Release Date: 27, March 2007

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Mental illness, Toxic friendship

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Stalking, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Alcohol

Minor: Biphobia, Death, Infidelity, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicide, Murder, Fire/Fire injury

abbysabyss's review against another edition

3.0

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Sexual assault, Stalking

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Eating disorder

Minor: Drug use, Suicide

sunflowerlu's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Infidelity, Murder, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, Alcohol

Minor: Pedophilia, Racism, Suicide, Stalking

christineazopf's review against another edition

2.75

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Suicide, Vomit, Alcohol

itsmeyseniab's review against another edition

2.5

mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I have a LOT more problems with the content this time around, now that I'm reading more critically. For starters, the relationships presented in these novels (especially the romantic ones) are wildly inappropriate. Age gap romances and inappropriate student-teacher relationships are so normalized in this that it's... disturbing. Also the way that body image and disordered eating is "discussed" in this is so harmful, especially to the young readers that these novels are targeted towards. I get that these are "mean" girls and these novels were written during a time where people (more specifically teens) got away with this behavior more, but YIKES.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Stalking

Minor: Suicide