Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Daisy Haites by Jessa Hastings

75 reviews

colormemadeline's review

adventurous dark emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Toxic relationship, and Death of parent

Moderate: Violence and Murder

Minor: Medical content and Kidnapping

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!!!!

annalea_hines's review against another edition

adventurous emotional fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, and Alcohol

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

donari's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Death, Kidnapping, and Death of parent

Minor: Trafficking

isabellaklucia's review against another edition

emotional tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, and Murder

capmorrow's review against another edition

emotional sad slow-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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Torture, Violence, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual content

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

ilanamichelle's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, and Alcohol

sjexley's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad medium-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

4.25

This is the 2nd book in the Magnolia Parks series, but this time our MC is Daisy.  She's a badass and smart but such an idiot when it comes to love.  Her brother runs the biggest crime gang in London, but she is trying to be a normal college gal. And boy is she complicated as a character. I wanted to strangle her but at the same time adored her relationship with Christian.  And I really felt for all the tragedy she had gone through.  I really liked her thoughts as footnotes in the book, but it's hard to read on Kindle.  Can't wait to go back to Magnolia's POV in the next book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Blood, and Death of parent

Moderate: Violence, Kidnapping, and Murder