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Graphic: Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent
Moderate: Cancer, Death, Domestic abuse
Minor: Alcoholism, Gun violence
Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Abandonment, Alcohol
Moderate: Cancer, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Kidnapping
Minor: Gun violence
Minor: Body shaming, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent
Which are:
-Hannah is a very bad bodyguard. She kept protesting doing things that can’t possibly be as bad as things she’s had to do for other jobs, she’s trained to handle tense life threatening situations - yet freaks out and shuts down over a shirtless man in front of her… She’s a grown ass adult, has had sex with men before, and she just shuts down over a man’s undulating six pack (seriously why that word choice)?
-All the back and forth conversations/arguments where Hannah refuses to accept or agree to something but eventually gives in. It always went on way too long, was overdone and got annoying pretty quickly.
-Along those lines, Hannah needing to be told a million times that Jack liked her before she believed it. It started to come across as her just being completely clueless rather than insecure.
-mainly because of those last three things, but also just because of the narration, Hannah seemed very immature.
-a lot of body shaming
-internalized misogyny
-very heteronormative (every single character is cishet)
-I felt like there should’ve been a content warning for suicide attempt for the end of the book. Even though we’re told many times that things could get messy given Hannah’s job, the whole book was very low stakes up until then, and that kind of came out of no where. For a rom com especially, it seemed a bit much. It felt like she almost tried to keep that scene a bit lighthearted as well with the writing style, but that’s not a scene you can make light of imo. It felt a bit insensitive.
Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Ableism, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cancer, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Death of parent, Alcohol
Minor: Fatphobia, Vomit
Cute, lighthearted, wholesome. A little less than believable but a fun time, disappointed that there is zero spice but so much sexual tension.
Graphic: Bullying, Cancer, Death, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Alcohol
What I mainly felt was missing was more of a deep-dive into the leads' careers. I'm not one to say one's career fully defines one's personality, but both of these characters seemed so defined by their unique careers that it would've been fun to push a little further into that. Particularly Hannah – we never leave her POV, she has such a unique career, and she definitively, on-page, defines herself by her excellence in that career. Instead we get a lot of moping about her ex and best friend. And while that's completely warranted and doesn't detract from her as a character, it would be nice if she'd been a little more fleshed out, especially as our first-person narrator.
Graphic: Suicide attempt
Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Domestic abuse, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent
Minor: Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Child death, Domestic abuse, Kidnapping
And can I say it’s so wholesome that I’ve now read 2 romance books in a row with no explicit spice.
Moderate: Cancer, Domestic abuse, Stalking
Minor: Gun violence, Suicide attempt, Death of parent
I will note that while much of this story is lighthearted and funny, it does mention some heavy things associated with grief over a passed family member, topics of domestic violence, and on page kidnapping, a character does receive a gunshot wound, and attempted suicide by a minor character which is stopped. While none of these are very graphic or gory in their description, for the events on page I have labeled their CWs as graphic.
Graphic: Gun violence, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt
Minor: Death, Domestic abuse, Death of parent
Graphic: Gun violence, Car accident, Death of parent
Moderate: Death, Domestic abuse, Stalking
Minor: Alcoholism