Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover

15 reviews

laurendenton's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Physical abuse, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Alcohol, Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Violence

Minor: Alcoholism, Cancer, Death of parent, Drug use, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

moonbin's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Gaslighting, Pregnancy, Gun violence, Sexual content, and Child death

Minor: Body horror, Abortion, Murder, Sexual violence, Blood, Rape, Sexual assault, Cursing, and Injury/Injury detail

brittanysavoie13's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.5

Ugh why does this have so many 5 star reviews? It was engaging and I couldn't put it down so I'll give it that, and it does a good job of addressing all the nuances of domestic abuse and how hard it can be for the abused to leave those situations (definitely needs a trigger warning though because I was not expecting that!). However, otherwise the book just didn't make sense.

It was supposed to show how charming, charismatic people like Ryle can be deceiving, yet he showed so many red flags from the get go. Everything seemed to come so easy to Lily, it wasn't very realistic. Then, probably what I hated the most... THERE WERE ABSOLUTELY NO REPERCUSSIONS FOR RYLE. Like none, whatsoever. Lily left him (which should have been a given) but otherwise nothing.  He got to have unsupervised time with his daughter (yikes! Definitely super problematic for a violent abuser and almost rapist!), he kept his career success, his relationship with his sister (who was lily's best friend) and her husband did not change (they named their daughter after him...after they knew he was violent towards his wife!), he didn't get arrested for any of the times he hurt Lily, and they mention absolutely nothing about him working on himself except one flippant comment about how he used to go to therapy when he first explained his 'condition' to lily (though emphasized that it wasn't an excuse, it 100% was). I just have so many issues with this book, but the whole fairytale wrap up at the end felt so fake and unrealistic its as if all the characters completely ignored Ryle's previous behavior and everyone had a happy ending anyways. I was waiting for some sort of explosive ending to come that just never happened

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Body horror, Blood, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Gun violence, Sexual violence, Violence, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Child death, Abandonment, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Child death, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Sexual violence, and Violence

jamiejanae_6's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Minor: Infertility and Suicide

mir_frog73's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Alcohol, Blood, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Cursing, Pregnancy, Child abuse, Sexual content, Death of parent, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, and Gun violence

Minor: Body horror, Murder, and Suicidal thoughts