Reviews tagging 'Racism'

Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

84 reviews

lindsayhotrod's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted relaxing slow-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexual content

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Car accident, Physical abuse, and Racism

someonelikeblue's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Chronic illness, Medical content, and Classism

Moderate: Drug use, Ableism, Alcohol, Cursing, Abandonment, and Car accident

Minor: Domestic abuse, Racism, and Mental illness

sunlit_music's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative lighthearted sad 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

4.5

Content warning for characters experiencing past racism and classism, and the love interest Red Morgan experiencing a toxic relationship with his ex girlfriend, who is classist.

My gosh this story is incredibly adorable. I love it. 

Things I love:

- The protagonist Chloe and her love interest Red are so sweet together. They have the best sense of humour!! I laughed out loud several times while reading this book. They call each other out on bad behaviour and work hard at becoming better people. 

- Their chemistry is so great!

- The side characters are just so sweet! And lovely. 

- great disability representation. Chloe is chronically ill, and this is treated with sensitivity and respect. 

- Watching Chloe and Red change from disliking each other to loving each other is believable and heartwarming. 

- Chloe's sisters are hilarious and adorable, and great emotional support. 

- Red's mum is adorable. 

Cons: No cons that I can think of. The misunderstanding near the end is so sad (!!!) but it works out and Chloe and Red get their happy ending through communicating maturely, so I'm satisfied. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Classism and Chronic illness

Minor: Toxic relationship and Racism

emily_mh'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

4.5

This was a delight!! I LOVED Chloe and Red’s dynamic; I could really feel their chemistry and pining, and their narrative voices were really distinct. Chloe’s perspective meant a lot to me as a chronically ill person as she was intensely relatable. I’ve docked a half star because I didn’t like how the third act breakup was executed. I did, however, LOVE the reconciliation. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Chronic illness, and Cursing

Moderate: Abandonment, Domestic abuse, Ableism, and Alcohol

Minor: Medical content, Murder, Violence, Cancer, Pregnancy, Blood, Death, Drug use, Kidnapping, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Racism, Vomit, Bullying, Gun violence, Body horror, Self harm, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Excrement, and Emotional abuse

Major warning for chronic pain. Minor warnings for fainting/dizziness, earthquake, capital punishment, volcano, self-injury, and disownment.

coffeeatthebeachwoodcafe's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective

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

4.75

this book is so so sweet. it has great fat and autistic representation

watching someone who’s fat be loved the same as anyone else meant a lot to me. red and chloe both working through last trauma so that they can have a healthy relationship was inspiring to watch :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Car accident, and Medical content

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Toxic friendship, and Violence

booksbynat's review against another edition

challenging funny hopeful lighthearted relaxing 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

4.0

THIS WAS VERY GOOD. I feel like it has been a while since I have read a romance book--like just romance, and this was SO good. I feel like I hear so so much about Eve Brown being the best one, and she is the youngest sister, so I feel like I might relate to that one the most, so I held off on giving it a 5 star rating. But, it  was still just so amazing and GREAT representation, and not in a weird, showing off way where there is like one gay person. They felt like REAL people, which is why I liked it so much. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Chronic illness, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Minor: Drug use

freddie_mewcury's review against another edition

emotional funny 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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Chronic illness, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Car accident, Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, and Racism

victorianbsilva's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful 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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Medical content, Sexual content, Chronic illness, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Classism, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Gaslighting, and Ableism

Minor: Racism

tkatt20's review against another edition

funny inspiring 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

4.0

Id say I feel very neutral about this book. I definitely liked it more than I disliked it, I just dont have an overall feeling for it. The banter was perfect and I liked how this book handled the heavier topics of abusive relationships and chronic illness, but the writing style wasn't my favorite and I feel like that was a big downfall for me. It felt like the author was trying to sound very elegant with quotable passages while also trying to keep it light and sexy for the intimate scenes and it didn't mesh well with me at all. The spice in this book seemed very poorly executed actually and made me extremely uncomfortable at times due to the vocabulary. Very mixed feelings for this book but I do think I would go back and reread it which doesn't happen often for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, and Sexual content

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Physical abuse and Racism

darineelbakry's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Ableism, Emotional abuse, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Classism and Racism