Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Icebreaker by Hannah Grace

499 reviews

raechrae's review against another edition

emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, and Body shaming

catsandbookspluspup's review against another edition

funny lighthearted medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Body shaming, Eating disorder, and Gaslighting

emadisonc's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted medium-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

3.5

“I don’t like anything more than I like you. You’re my favorite.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Body shaming, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Gaslighting

Minor: Pregnancy

skb163's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, and Body shaming

tessa_krause's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual content, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Death of parent and Cursing

Minor: Pregnancy

jloves2read's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful sad 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

4.5

reading anastasia’s story sometimes felt a bit too relatable, i loved the relationship between nate and anastasia, hated aaron, lots of smut(a bit too cringy at times) 
  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Vomit and Violence

andwonderlandd's review against another edition

funny lighthearted medium-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

3.0

I think this book was what I was looking for at the moment, something cute and easy to read.
There were times where it was a bit predictable but it was fine overall. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, and Sexual content

Moderate: Gaslighting and Body shaming

Minor: Vomit

rotkaeppchen's review against another edition

lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

I thought it was fine, super cheesy and highly unrealistic but a decent enough romance. However, the book was about 200 pages too long and I felt it dragging on in the second half. The writing has potential but the author needs a better editor, there was a lot of overexplaining and a lot could’ve been cut.
Still could’ve been a 3 star read but I HATED the epilogue.

The main character gets pregnant, despite repeatedly emphasizing that she does in fact not want that, ever, a year out of college? She can’t be older at 23 at that point, with a whole career ahead of her, but noooo, for the sake of plot (what plot?) she gets knocked up. I hated that and I can’t believe people seem to be fine with that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Eating disorder, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Body shaming and Death of parent

Minor: Pregnancy

em_catherine's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

4.0

I LOVED the side characters in this book. Especially the hockey team. The only thing that made me want to keep reading was those characters. The main character was unlikeable, and how she blatantly ignored all concerns from everyone around her about her abusive partnership drove me nuts. She constantly claimed to be self aware but never actually acted accordingly. I loved the love interest, but he definitely settled. It also wasn't really an enemies to lovers because they got together so quickly. Also WHY did she need to nearly drown. It didn’t feel relevant for needed in the story whatsoever  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Toxic friendship, Mental illness, Gaslighting, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Sexual harassment and Sexual assault

Minor: Alcohol and Death of parent

Drowning described in detail, character is revived and is fine

qgg's review against another edition

3.75

This book reads a lot like PWP for stretches at a time, but then the plot sneaks in and it’s actually a good book. Not a lot of college sports romance books take on disordered eating, toxic friendships, adoptee/adopted parent expectation dynamics, and sports leadership without toxic masculinity. I’m tempted to give this 4 stars, but it’s not quite my vibe with that much college binge drinking. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Gaslighting, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, and Toxic friendship