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Magnolia Parks by Jessa Hastings

13 reviews

kalefactory's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Sexual content, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Classism

Minor: Child death

meaghanslibrary's review against another edition

emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

Aahh this is oh so very close to five stars, and maybe it could be a five stars series.

What brought down the rating for me was the descriptions of fancy clothes, like I get it’s Magnolia’s thing but I found it very distracting and it would take me out of the book.

I liked the dual POVs and learning about the characters through their past and present. 

There are great lines in this book that are borderline too cheesy but I ate them up.

I highly recommend this book if Blair and Chuck were your favorite couple and characters in the Gossip Girl tv show.  If you didn’t like Blair and Chuck you won’t like this book. This is top level toxicity that is entertaining to read about, but not good for the real world.  Excited to read the rest in this series!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

annagut1errez's review against another edition

slow-paced

• 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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Vomit, and Gaslighting

mana_reads's review against another edition

emotional hopeful 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Alcohol

Minor: Vomit

Imagine what a shock it must be to know that the love of your life cheated on you. Then you try to still give him another chance after hurting each other for years and when you finally do, you discover that the person said love of your life cheated with, is your best friend who’s been wiping your tears and crying with you the night you were crying your heart out when you discovered that you got cheated on‼️. And not only that, you come to know that almost the whole friend group you trusted since you’re a little kid knew what happened but they just watched you suffer heartache after heartache for 4 YEARS. Sorry but her friends are horrible. Jonah Has been giving Christian shit because he had feelings for Magnolia, meanwhile he was the mastermind in trying to cover the cheating and protecting Paili and BJ to some extent!! This guy is more a brother to BJ than to Christian!! Perry is a fake ass and Paili I don’t even want to start talking about her 🚮. The only real friend is Henry (and maybe Christian? Idk) I’m so sad and at the same time mad for Magnolia ugh 😤🤬 /spoiler>

kcmg710's review against another edition

emotional 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

2.75

This book was like an awful reality TV show, like I hated pretty much every moment of it but COULD NOT, FOR THE LIFE OF ME, STOP READING. Pretty much everything about this book irked me so much, but I could not put it down which is the only reason it got nearly 3 * otherwise it would be a solid 1* or 2* at a push (which is pretty harsh for me). 

I also found there were ALOT of typos but I don’t know if that was just my version on the kindle? And some of the sentences genuinely gave me a headache trying to read 
  eg. “He’s at uni. He never feels like my little brother, just feels like brother.” ———>> Like WATTTT, is that a typo or am I the problem. Is it meant to feel like some deeper sentence with meaning behind it? Because there were many similar to this and it felt like an 8 year old wrote it. 

You could kinda tell the author wasn’t British there’s literally a guy called TOM ENGLAND (loved him though, the only one who had an ounce of sense). The characters used a lot of phrases that we wouldn’t actually use. It was abit cringe like watching an American do an awful impression of us 

Another strange thing (not totally important but just kinda bugged me) was that there would be in-depth descriptions about each of the characters clothes (because it was a ‘quirk’ of Magnolias) but would always throw the lads in vans or converse? Like Hastings basically gave us the barcodes for each individual item of clothing and then topped off the outfit with a pair of vans or converse. If it was once or twice maybe but not EVERY SINGLE OUTFIT for the lads 

Character wise, Bj pretty much won me over within the first few chapters, after that it was a VERY quick descent into the pits of hellll. I hatttttttteeeeeeeee him! Hes  a liar, a hypocrite, just a general piece of shit and he constantly contradicted himself. “I’d do anything for that face” but would then proceed to do some of THE most HEINOUS things ever to the girl he’s supposed to love!? Make it make sense, like he has the audacity to play the victim like he doesn’t fuck Magnolia over every chance he gets as if it isn’t all his fault from the get go.  “You sullied my name for a Chanel bag?”  Like he didn’t sully his own name the instant he cheated!? 

Magnolia was very meh to me, and really kinda annoyed me the way she kept going back to BJ but at the same time I kinda felt sorry for her because she put up with so much shit from the lads ( BJ, Chris and Jonah ). They were awful to her and she just accepted it most of the time and cracked on. Could never be me. 

The only characters I liked were Tom England 👑, Henry and I guess Magnolias sister was okay too. I liked how Tom and Henry both had Magnolias back no matter what especially Henry. He was always ready to call his brother (Bj) out in defence of magnolia. 

Overall, I’d say not a great book and everyone on booktok was saying it gets better in book 2 and onwards but it’s the risk of wasting more time on this ^^^^^ for the small chance it gets better. I’m still undecided whether I will actually carry on with the series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Cursing, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, and Alcohol

Minor: Child death, Death, Vomit, Medical content, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

jturn2475's review against another edition

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: Drug use

Moderate: Violence and Vomit

madisonsp's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Classism

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicide, and Medical content

Minor: Eating disorder, Vomit, and Mass/school shootings

theaa_reads's review against another edition

challenging sad tense slow-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

5.0

plot: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ (wasn‘t actually spicy but the sexual tension..)

omg this book
i cried so much and the end broke me
really i can‘t believe it
i need a happy end

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, and Vomit

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol

simixfe's review against another edition

emotional sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Medical content, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

desana75's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted sad tense

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Infidelity, and Vomit