Reviews tagging 'Sexual harassment'

After by Anna Todd

14 reviews

destinynichole11's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

hannalizzy's review against another edition

challenging funny mysterious tense slow-paced

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

1.5

This book is the trainwreck you can’t look away from. Hot garbage. Toxic toxic toxic abusive and toxic. The writing feels like Twilight/Mormon propaganda with some wet dreams sprinkled throughout. Hardin wrote the book on gaslighting. 

and yet I ate it up, left zero crumbs, and am requesting the next book on libby. I AM BUT A WOMAN and this book was honestly fucking hilarious.

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

thebookpaiges's review against another edition

emotional slow-paced

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

0.25

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

What in the harry styles fanfic was that shit….?

pleigh02's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense slow-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

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Infidelity, Sexual content, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

readingduckling's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

0.25

Well first the one good thing I have to say about it was it was not boring, it was tedious anoing and tiering but not boring. 
Every character in this book is absolutely toxic beginning with the main character, she seemed to like it to make everyones life difficult and provoce people in her proximity just to feel like the 'main character' I think the author wanted the reader to relate to this character but she was just a jackass. 
Every friend and love interest ist also toxic in their own special way and in very depressed need of therapy. 
Just like every adult mentioned in this story. 
The writing style was sloppy the author was repeating the same words in a sentence, except for using euphemism so at least the writing style wouldn't feel that repetitive. But I think this is to much to ask. The story it self was also repetitive every chapter/part of the story was the same. The main character fights with the main love interest, they fight they make up, they make up, they do something sexual and then the circle stars over again. I was more than annoyed reading this book because ist was the same thing 100x over and over and over again. 
If you are now wondering, why I didn't stop reading it, it was because some friends and coworkers recommended this book and wanted me to read it; 'because it's sooooo good'. It really wasn't! 
First I thought maybe I didn't like the book because it's young adult, but that doesn't make any sense, because I often read young adult books that I really enjoy (my first 5 out of 5 book this year was a young adult book). And about half of the people recommending this book to me are older than I am. 
In a way I am really shocked, that this bullshit, is a young adult book because I think it would be dangerous for young people to read this book (- series) they get the wrong idea of what a relationship in any definition of the word should look like. I don't have a a problem with toxic relationships being presented in books for teens/kids/young adults but than it should be clear that it is toxic. It doesn't happen in this book at all. 
And I have a problem with this book that resembles a problem with the 50 shades series, it has a relationship that resembles a Dom/sup dynamic but has nothing that is important in this kinds of relationships, especially no after care. 

All in all it is a disgrace that anyone was ever able to make money with this story, I will most definitely not read it again, I do not ever recommend reading it to everyone. And I will not read the other books in this series, or consume everything else realated to this. 

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Gaslighting

malignant_gnome's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Acephobia/Arophobia, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and Classism

alexia445's review against another edition

dark 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

0.25

This is the worst thing I have ever read

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cursing, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

cait's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

2.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

isabear's review against another edition

dark tense fast-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

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

wintersummers's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional slow-paced

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

This book is the worst book i have ever read. The characters are shit and the story too. The realationship is presented as cute and ideal but it is just toxic. I am not recommending this to anybody. This book is just really bad. The toxitity is presented as a good thing. Or you coul rather say the toxisity is not even touched. It is not really implied that it is bad what the characters do. They just do it out of love so it is ok what they do. In this book is also much sexism and misoginy.

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexism, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Minor: Sexual harassment