Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Daisy Haites by Jessa Hastings

29 reviews

nicpeterson's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Sexual assault and Sexual violence

lindsfreche's review

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

3.25

summary: this book takes us back through the plot of the first magnolia parks book just in the perspectives of daisy, christian and julian. not a lot repeats, but it’s interesting to get three new perspectives on magnolia and BJ aND understand christian’s pov on magnolia and how that changes throughout this book. it follows daisy and julian who are gang leaders (julian more than daisy, daisy being his little sister who him and all the gang bros protect) and the fwb/fb relationship that daisy and christian start the book with. christian is using daisy to get over / forget about magnolia. daisy knows she is in too deep with christian. julian deals with gang drama

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Violence, and Murder

Minor: Sexual assault

it was hard to get through but the last 5 chapters had me in a tailspin. jessica hastings knows how to reel you in!! daisy and christian loving each other but not being able to choose each other in the end— specifically christian not being willing to leave the gang life for daisy, despite all of her trauma and her reasonings— was really sad. julian and daisy not speaking to each other. daisy and rome not speaking to each other. it makes me glad that there’s romance books with unhappy endings despite it being sad, it’s more realistic and less predictable. interested to keep going into this series!!!!

nayahpatel's review against another edition

emotional funny sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Gun violence, Sexual assault, and Kidnapping

beluem's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence

Moderate: Homophobia, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, and Murder

Minor: Violence and Trafficking

captainchloe__'s review against another edition

dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I don't usually rate books, but this book was incredible, very easy five stars. Preferred Daisy as a character to Magnolia and Christian was the man BJ WISHES he could be. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Death of parent

Moderate: Sexual assault

courtahearn's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault

shaydecker's review against another edition

emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault

hillgoodharv's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence and Violence

Moderate: Death, Infidelity, Kidnapping, and Death of parent

Minor: Sexual assault

natasha_dean's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

I loved the footnotes at the bottom of Daisy’s chapters. 

This book felt slightly less toxic, but more sad than Magnolia Parks was. I can’t stop reading now because there are too many storylines that I need to see have a satisfying conclusion.

I wish I knew before reading this that it overlaps with Magnolia Parks because I think tandem reading would make this even better.

One of the things I didn’t like is that the text messages felt like they were in the wrong places at times. It wasn’t always clear who they were from or to and it looks as if some were placed wrongly since they seemingly didn’t involve the character who's POV they were in. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Kidnapping and Death of parent

Minor: Sexual assault and Trafficking

chalkysea's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.75

Loved this so much more than Magnolia Parks!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Gun violence, Blood, and Death of parent

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Violence, Trafficking, and Kidnapping