Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Fly With Me by Andie Burke

23 reviews

trussell12's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Car accident, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, and Alcohol

bg_oseman_fan's review against another edition

emotional funny 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

4.0

I really enjoyed this book. Olive and Stella were such compelling characters. i like that the romance engaged with the other real life concerns in a way that enhanced the story. parts of the story felt i bit like checking of a list rather than being essential to the story, but the strong ending really tied everything together in a very satisfying way. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Grief, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, Medical content, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexism

Minor: Sexual harassment, Alcohol, Cursing, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Medical trauma, Stalking, and Terminal illness

jgarrin93's review

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Death, Alcohol, Homophobia, Mental illness, Grief, Car accident, Biphobia, Medical content, Cursing, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, and Lesbophobia

greatestheights's review

emotional 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Sexism, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Medical content, and Homophobia

liligilsoul's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Transphobia, Sexual harassment, Gaslighting, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Lesbophobia, Dementia, Death, Toxic relationship, Chronic illness, Terminal illness, Homophobia, and Grief

caseythereader's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad 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

Thanks to St. Martins Press for the free copy of this book.

 - FLY WITH ME has such a silly premise, and yet it's fairly serious for a romance novel. This book deals with everything from workplace sexism to end of life care for relative in a coma.
- As much as I loved the opposites-attract dynamic between Olive and Stella (and we know how much I love fake dating!), this book went around in circles, having the same conversation a few too many times for me. There was also a third act breakup a literal 20 pages from the end of the book, which felt totally unnecessary after all the previous back and forth. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Grief, Terminal illness, Cursing, Death, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Car accident, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Dementia and Homophobia

applejacksbooks's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

2.0

I received a copy from NetGalley for review. 

So I'm writing this review at 69% because honestly I think I'm going to DNF. Not because I don't like the story, but simply because the writing was super repetitive. The story starts off with Olive on a plane ride to Orlando and she helps with a medical emergency and it sets off the plot once she meets Stella, the co-pilot of the airplane she was riding along. Stella offers to drive Olive the rest of the way to Disney so she can run in the half marathon in remembrance of her brother (who is brain dead, but Olive's mother won't take him off life support), well Stella stays and then they proceed to have a wonderful couple of days until Stella bails. Once back in DC Stella finds Olive while she's at work and asks her if she could be her fake girlfriend so that Stella can advance to captain at work (it's a big deal as that level of aviation is a boys club). Olive agrees and they start "dating." 

Here's where my issues with the story arise. The women go on a series of dates and in between EVERY SINGLE ONE the two (mostly Stella trying to talk herself out of a commitment "because she'd be a bad girlfriend") go back and forth with whether or not they should continue lying to everyone about them dating. The first couple of times I think is fine to have second thoughts, but by like the third or fourth time they hang out and do stuff they should just accept that they're doing this and it's so painstakingly obvious to everyone except Stella's dumb ass that they're actually dating for realisies. 

Honestly at this point, I'm really just waiting to see what happens with Olive's mother. That situation seems more interesting than the love story that's clearly happening front and center. Idk if I finish this I'll update but I think I'm just going to skim the rest to see how it ends.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Medical content, and Car accident

Moderate: Misogyny

beesneysbooks's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.5

I was lucky to receive an e-ARC of this book, and when I say lucky, i mean LUCKY. This book had everything you need in a book: fake dating, queer characters, family drama, miscommunication that resolves itself rather quickly, found-family, a funny start-to-end joke that keeps popping up. Everything about this book was written with care, including an authors note at the beginning with triggers written in a way that makes the reader feel connected with the author. Would definitely recommend to anyone and everyone! (as always, check the triggers before you read and take care of yourself!)

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Sexism, Medical content, Sexual harassment, Death, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Drug use, Sexual content, Hate crime, Toxic relationship, and Car accident

rickireadss's review against another edition

2.5

thank you to netgalley for the earc!

i wanted to like this more than i did, and i'm sad that it just didn't live up. while there were some aspects i liked, the bad heavily outweighed the good for me.

****potential spoilers below****

what i liked:
- our mc olive -> i related to a lot of her inner monologue and overall really liked her.
- olive's brother jake -> even though he wasn't even an active character, i could feel their love for each other.

what i didn't like:
- the love interest, stella -> she seemed like SUCH a flat character, and this may be due to the single pov. i honestly could not deal with her back and forth with olive, of wanting to be just friends or wanting to blur the lines. also, the fact that it wasn't made known that she was Latina until 25% in felt like that was just added in last minute. besides her mentioning it one or twice and her dad calling her mija or mijita, the rep felt really underdeveloped.
- ALL of olive's family (besides jake obvi). -> her sister needed to grow a backbone. her parents were THE WORST. i literally could not deal with them everytime they were on page. their treatment of olive was so uncalled for and i wish she had gone no-contact with them ages ago, but like i also know why she didn't. her mother rubbed me wrong the most and quickly made my list of "characters i hate".
- the side character lindsay -> not only was she a manipulative, selfish, ableist piece of shit, but i don't feel like olive truly dealt with what she did throughout the book but especially at the end. there wasn't really OW drama, but her constant addition to the plot was uncalled for and wasn't resolved.

there is probably more i didn't like, but i am tired of thinking of this book. i loved olive, i really like this cover, but this one just didn't do it for me.

⚠️: death, grief, toxic relationship (past ex), religious bigotry, gaslighting, emotional abuse, ableism, chronic illness (celiac), panic attacks/disorders, terminal illness (Parkinson's), lesbophobia, homophobia, misogyny, transphobia, medical content, car accident

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Ableism, Death, Gaslighting, and Grief

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Chronic illness, Lesbophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Terminal illness, and Misogyny

Minor: Car accident and Transphobia

dconlon's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad 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? Yes

3.5

Overall this book had a cute story, and I appreciated how it talked about discrimination, mental health, and self confidence throughout. I liked how both main characters learned more about themselves and became more confident throughout the story. However, this story felt slow-paced and drawn out, and I thought it could have been shortened in some places. Also a lot of the situations felt over the top and required a suspension of disbelief in a way that felt more extreme than other books in the romance genre.  Thank you to netgalley for an eARC in exchange for an honest review! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Mental illness, Pandemic/Epidemic, Grief, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Car accident, Sexism, Racism, and Sexual harassment