Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Seven Days in June by Tia Williams

176 reviews

carlyjoann's review

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual assault, and Child abuse

shortcake13's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Suicide attempt, Addiction, Mental illness, Drug use, and Self harm

Moderate: Death and Child death

Minor: Sexual assault

withlivjones's review

emotional reflective sad 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

3.75

This was a sweet, well-written read that you can tell was written with a lot of love. There was a good balance of light and shade, with bits of well-done humour and the main characters were so compelling (although a lot of the supporting characters were kind of written off as one-dimensional stereotypes imo). It didn’t completely blow me away the way I was expecting it to, considering the amount of people I’ve heard raving about it, but maybe my expectations were too high. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Child death

Moderate: Grief, Car accident, Racial slurs, Gun violence, and Sexual assault

tays_books's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad 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: Drug abuse, Cursing, Alcoholism, Sexual content, Addiction, Self harm, Chronic illness, and Drug use

Moderate: Abandonment, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, Child death, and Child abuse

Minor: Grief, Suicide, Gun violence, Vomit, and Sexual assault

jenna_s_9's review

emotional funny hopeful reflective 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? Yes

5.0

I genuinely loved this book. Williams’ writing is witty and charming, the characters felt so real and true with complex layers. They felt like people. 
I loved this take on “the one that got away” and how layered this story felt, getting to see the inner workings of Audre and Lizette was great and added such richness to storytelling.
One of my favourite reads this summer!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm

Moderate: Violence and Sexual harassment

Minor: Sexual assault

agbowler's review

dark emotional

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

I didn't like how the main character was depicted but the overall book was great.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Sexual content, and Drug use

Minor: Sexual harassment and Sexual assault

isabellabolanos's review against another edition

emotional 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? Yes

4.0

Pretty good romance

Spoiler

the break up at the very end of the book could have very easily been resolved by a phone call lol. It was dramatic for no reason

Spoiler

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug use, Drug abuse, Self harm, Chronic illness, and Alcoholism

Minor: Sexual assault

savvylit's review

emotional fast-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

2.5

What I liked: this book is well-written and well-paced. Eva and Audre's mother-daughter relationship is both heartwarming and fun. I truly enjoyed all of Audre's scenes in this book. Also, adult Shane and Eva's romance is steamy and sweet at the same time.

What I didn't like: the teenage romance between Eva and Shane was incredibly toxic. They were instantly codependent, despite having just met. And they were on a drug-induced bender for most of their Seven Days! That was enough to bond them for life? Also, (spoiler alert!) the way that the author portrayed self-harm was disturbing. Self-harm is basically glamorized in some of this book's flashback scenes. Ultimately, that just added more to my disbelief and discomfort with the toxic origins of this entire romance.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Drug use, Drug abuse, Self harm, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Alcoholism, Violence, Chronic illness, Mental illness, and Alcohol

mwakisha's review

sad fast-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Self harm, Gore, and Gun violence

adhyphenk's review

emotional funny hopeful reflective fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Self harm, and Alcoholism

Minor: Sexual assault