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Jasper Vale by Devney Perry

14 reviews

abidavisf's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

The ‘I could listen to them talk forever’ trope has my heart in its clutches and I am SO OKAY WITH THAT. I love Eloise and Jasper. What a match.

Jasper Vale, the book, is beautiful. It lives and breathes “underneath the pretty colours is a really ugly horse”. It doesn’t sugarcoat anything, but instead explores the wonder of finding the good in the bad, moving on from hurt and trauma, and learning how to love and believe in yourself.

Eloise and Jasper grew up so differently, both in worlds that should have been ‘perfect’ and yet were not. They came together in their imperfections to teach each other how to live for themselves and I just adored watching them grow.

Devney Perry had me going in the middle there. I was really starting to question my love of Jasper and, even though I understood some of his behaviour, I was getting ridiculously frustrated with him. His journey, most of all, was wonderful to read. To see him accept Eloise’s love and, ultimately, the love of a family was worth every hair I wanted to pull out.

I thought about this book non-stop when I wasn’t reading it. I loved it. It’s beautiful. With that being said, there are some very dark themes in this book and I implore you to check your trigger warnings before reading. Some happy endings come with a pinch of salt, and this was definitely one of those.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, and Gun violence

Moderate: Bullying, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Blood, Mass/school shootings, Stalking, Murder, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Classism

Minor: Cancer, Death, Drug use, Misogyny, Terminal illness, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

gabbyslittlelibrary's review

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

Check the trigger warnings on this one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Mass/school shootings

paperbacksandsketchbooks's review against another edition

emotional hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

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

5.0

Loved this one! I love Eloise and Jasper. Their dynamic is so fun. Jasper had me swooning with the "my wife" remarks. And I actually thought the spontaneous marriage was done well! But please check triggers.... towards the end of the book there is a scene that can be unnerving for a lot of people.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mass/school shootings

emsbookobsessed's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny lighthearted mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

“I like perfect,” I murmured. “I like imperfect too. I like wild and reckless moments that you never forget.”

I loved Jasper. I loved this book. I loved Jasper and Eloise together. His mouth was the dirtiest of all the MMC so far. This book did not make me near as emotional as the previous but the plot was soo much better. I felt like Devney Perry did a much better job balancing the explicit scenes and the fade to blacks in this one, much more balanced, very tasteful choice.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence

Moderate: Emotional abuse

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, and Mass/school shootings

jamiejanae_6's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful 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: Gun violence, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Mass/school shootings, Stalking, and Pregnancy

kaylsreads's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

4.25

Good addition to the series. Both Eloise and jasper did a lot of growing up in this, it was nice to be able to watch. I’m glad that the move from “fake” marriage to “you’re my wife” was not painful like it is with the trope sometimes. I honestly would have really liked a little more depth with the conflict with blaze at the end, it felt rushed. I also think that the relationship between jasper and Eloise’s parents could have been explored a little more, I would have killed for a sexy protective husband scene where jasper really stands up to Harrison for Eloise and Harrison realizes the error of his ways haha. Overall really cute and sweet, first 2/3 were almost perfect, last 1/3 just felt a little rushed. Can’t wait to read the next installment 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, and Abandonment

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Drug use, Gun violence, Blood, Mass/school shootings, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

rayraymeeks's review against another edition

emotional 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

5.0

Great story but read in print the male narrator is awful. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mass/school shootings

lilnickie22's review against another edition

hopeful lighthearted reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mass/school shootings and Murder

kjenae's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted relaxing tense medium-paced

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

4.25

I enjoyed this book a lot. Eloise Eden and Jasper Vale were meant to find each other (in every sense of that saying). 
The chemistry was definitely there and I loved how much Eloise and Jasper cared for each other, even before they could even admit it to themselves and to each other.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Mass/school shootings

krimor's review against another edition

lighthearted 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

3.75

I enjoyed this book this most out of the Eden’s. It’s a fun world to get lost in.  Light, easy reads 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and Mass/school shootings