Reviews tagging 'Stalking'

Flawless: Number 2 in series by Sara Shepard

14 reviews

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

readhermind's review against another edition

4.5

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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This book!!! I loved it! It was soo good, BUT there were some things that were quite problematic, so I gave it 4.5 ⭐

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Stalking

Moderate: Drug use, Sexual content, Blood, Vomit

Minor: Eating disorder

regalreads's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-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: Eating disorder, Stalking

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide

Minor: Drug use, Sexual content

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