Reviews tagging 'Toxic friendship'

Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer

12 reviews

carlate96's review against another edition

emotional tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Infertility, Misogyny, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Abortion and Gaslighting

embargo's review against another edition

1.75

Reread the whole series in 2024 for a podcast. This is definitely the most enjoyable one, but only because it is so buckwild. You all know the drill- writing is bad, messaging is bad, romance is upsetting, and yes, the treatment of the Quilluete tribe is racist. 

For any adults who read the series as a teen and are considering a reread: fun for the nostalgia and deconstructing (if you're into that), but you'll probably have more fun getting somebody whose never watched the movies to watch them with you.

For teens who are thinking about reading the series: there's better stuff out there that doesn't have the issues this series has.

For adults who read the series as an adult and are still into it.... You do you I guess.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Cultural appropriation, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Racism, and Kidnapping

Hard to say how to classify the whole "imprinting" issues that spring up in this book. Not teeeechnically pedophilia, but it's the textbook definition of grooming, so, we're doing the best we can with the tags we've got.

stindex's review against another edition

adventurous

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

0.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Child death, Infertility, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, Stalking, Abortion, Death of parent, Abandonment, and War

__romancereader__'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious relaxing sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

-I loved this book in the serious i never read the books before this was my first time but I've watched the movie just about a thousand + times and that ending i was not expecting instead of leaving something out of the movie like they normally did they added a crazy ending to the movie that wasn't in the book overall i loved it thought it was such a good story i wish they did a epilogue in this book but they didn’t 🥹 I don’t wanna say to much that might spoil the book so I'm just gonna keep it at that eEdward and Bella and even Jacob have allot of growth in this book more than the other ones overall i rate this book a five star⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️-

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Not all content warnings are about the main characters some are and some are about the people you meet/hear in the book🥰🥰🥰😁😁😁Enjoy

a_wren_that_reads's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Gore, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Pregnancy, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Abortion

harrypotterfan33's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Amazing conclusion to the Twilight Saga. It was one hell of an emotional rollercoaster. Make sure to read the other three Twilight books first or this one will make no sense.

Bella and Edward have a kid, call her Renesmee and Jacob imprints on her. Also, Emmett arm wrestles newborn Bella Cullen and she wins.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and War

There is quite a lot of swearing and also sex so if that sort of stuff makes you uncomfortable then don't read

pinkfawn's review against another edition

dark 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? No

3.25

I read this in two days just in my attempt to finally be free from the fresh hell that is my idea of re-reading this series.

This is somehow the best, and the worst book of all of them-- by not by a lot.

Spoilers Ahead
It's obviously S. Meyer's weird anti-abortion manifesto, Bella makes it painfully clear when she, 18 and pregnant, will not give up the baby that is literally a parasite growing rapidly and actively killing her while she drinks blood out of a 7-11 cup as prescribed by a board-certified(?) doctor. 

This triggered constant eye-rolling every time she was described as weak but in the same breath, readers were made aware of how badly she wanted to keep Jakeward or whatever the male baby name idea was. Speaking of Jacob, his entire 'book' portion was so whiny and annoying and absolutely a displeasure to read.

The only mildly entertaining part of this book was the shady lawyer or whatever who was absolutely terrified of Mr. Jasper (can you blame him)? The Volturi scene was so long and drawn out for literally no reason. 

Midnight Sun is still on my radar, but not for a very, very long time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Gore, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

ashleylowry's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Death, Grief, and Murder

Minor: Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Abandonment

rakkaussipsi's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, and Vomit

Minor: Pedophilia and Sexual assault

ronan_lesh's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Pregnancy, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Violence, Blood, and Murder