Reviews with content warning for Child abuse - Tools of Engagement

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Tools of Engagement, by Tessa Bailey

5 reviews

beeweekes's review

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emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
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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agda's review against another edition

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emotional funny lighthearted fast-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? Yes

4.0

I can't realy pin the reason this is my favorate one around the serie. I do think theres something to do with the way the narrator performed thoug. Wes's accent got me going. I'm also a sucker for little girls characters.
It did felt hurried, especially towards the end. I felt like it deserved about a 100 pages more.

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bookcasey's review against another edition

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lighthearted medium-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

Another Hallmark Channel special from Tessa Bailey featuring a blonde woman with head-turning good looks and a rugged man who does manual labor. This one is particularly aggressive in his overtures and supposedly softened by his love for a child.

I’m not entirely sure why I keep reading these painfully cisheteronormative eroticas (yes, explicit sexual descriptions) from Bailey. The Bailey formula is

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a blonde woman who’s apparently more gorgeous than every other woman ever but humanized by anxiety of some kind meets a aggressively protective man who is very big and manly. They resist their mind-blowing sexual tension for not as long as you’d expect before having the greatest sex of their lives. Then they do something emotionally immature. But don’t worry, by the end, he’s cured her of whatever anxieties she had, and she’s a low-makeup domestic goddess with a husband and babies

. They are very white, very hetero, and include basically all the gender stereotypes in bed except that (dispute otherwise using the classic list of words for genitals used in such books) Bailey for some reason seems to prefer “bottom” to “ass.”

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rachaelboyd's review

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adventurous emotional funny lighthearted 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

3.75

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annahamburger's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective 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? It's complicated

4.0

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