Reviews tagging 'Toxic friendship'

Exodus by Kate Stewart

6 reviews

lovelymisanthrope's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

2.0

I picked this up because I read "Flock" last year, and I just could not get it off of my mind recently.
"Exodus" is the second book in The Ravenhood trilogy. Cecilia is trying to move on without Sean and Dominic, but she feels like she is drowning. Everything is only made worse by the annoying presence of her enemy, the Frenchman. Can she make it these last few months so she can get her inheritance and get out of Triple Falls?
I was very disappointed with the turn this story took. Cecilia was so "in love" with Sean and Dominic, but after a few months she starts hooking up the man known only as the Frenchman, Tobias. I know Sean and Dominic just up and left her, but I feel like she could have held out a little bit longer. And, why did she have to hook up with Tobias? I feel like it was just that he was in close proximity.
Dominic's plotline was devastating.
I am honestly kind of mad, and I do not know if I want to see what happens next. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Murder, Death of parent, Abandonment, Death, Violence, Toxic relationship, Grief, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Stalking, and Sexual content

Moderate: Terminal illness

zc2's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

2.75

Listen the plot was good, great even but it put me in a 20 day reading slump simply because of how slow everything was. And once you read the main plot point 👀😭… all the timeline does is jump tremendously. Also it was just confusing to keep up with everything and who everyone was. Tobias really just crawled all over my nerves 🙄 like give me a break. I just wasn’t really entertained I guess. I much preferred the first book despite all the lingering secrets.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Blood, Cursing, Death, Gaslighting, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, War, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, and Vomit

tiana_king's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

Despite her being 6 years older she spent most of the book being a whinny child. I get that she experienced something traumatic and then was cut off from everyone but lord she should’ve seen a therapist. Instead she self sabotaged at every opportunity. I’m confused on the back slide in quality this book had compared to the first. But I’m gonna read the last book anyway. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Death, Abandonment, Classism, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, and Sexual content

Moderate: Child abuse, Violence, and Drug use

Minor: Stalking and Death of parent

almarie061's review

I was iffy about the continuation of this series after the end of the first book but gave it a shot anyways.

I think the development of Tobias and her relationship was rushed and the first book is basically pointless you could read this book by itself because I still knew nothing going into it! I wasn’t a big fan of Sean or Dominic either but at least their relationship was impactful on her character development book one. IDK disappointing based on the hype.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Toxic friendship, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, and Bullying

narayan's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

5.0

Fuckin hell.... FUCKIN HELL! 
I jumped into these series completely clueless, looking for romance and spice - and that's it. Boy, was I wrong. I did not expect this! 
This book got my heart into a fist and squeezed hard, to a point I stopped breathing and was completely obsessed (and still am). 
It was about damn time for the mc to grow up and become badass, but did it have to be this way? 
I love them all. 
I don't know what to expect from the next one, it better be fuckin therapeutic. 😂

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Alcohol, Blood, Bullying, Cursing, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Murder, Stalking, and Violence

jen1804's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

1.5

This book is about 30 pages of answers and 400 pages of crap. I don’t know how this gets as many 4 and 5 star ratings as it does!?!?!?!? The number of times I wanted to DNF this book… absolute waste of my time.
I can’t understand how an author can write so many words and yet tell the reader nothing? This book is chaotic, repetitive, overly dramatic and all the characters are so angry and hostile all the time. It’s so poorly written that half the time I’ve not got a clue WHY they’re so angry because the whole thing is so evasive and their extreme emotions are rarely explained. The first 70% of this book is 100% a 1 star, it’s boring and the one bit of action which passes for interesting again doesn’t make sense at the time and what follows is more evasiveness, gahhhhh. All the relationships explored in this book are so toxic and the FMC is so pathetic, whiny and dislikable. It gains a 0.5 because at least I got given some answers at the end of this book to help explain what the hell has been going on. It has left me feeling as though the entirety of book one was redundant though and I’m not left satisfied with how it ends but I shall not be reading book three.
Satisfactory ending? Nope.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Toxic relationship, Blood, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, and Violence

Moderate: Drug use, Alcohol, Grief, and Vomit