Reviews tagging 'Vomit'

The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang

30 reviews

ashley_reya's review against another edition

emotional funny 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? Yes

3.5

Enjoyable and relatively quick read. Didn’t grip me as much as I had hoped, but Anna and Quan’s story was sweet and honestly the highlight.

Anna and her family drove me up a wall, and often felt like a losing battle. The proposal party chapters had me worked up enough that I needed to walk away for a bit 😂

Overall, a sweet story of self-discovery, personal growth, grief, and found family. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Medical content, and Death of parent

Minor: Body shaming, Cancer, and Vomit

ghostsversion's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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

5.0

Okay, so maybe I shouldn’t have mentioned the fact that I wasn’t 100% emotionally invested in the previous one. I feel like Mrs heard me and was like “Oh really? Well here’s an entire book about two people pleasers falling in love and also about how tiring it is to try and be what others want you to be.” Like, ma’am, I’m already dead, stop stomping on me. And maybe I related a bit on the masking autism part but whatever.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Moderate: Ableism, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

absofsteel77's review against another edition

challenging hopeful reflective sad tense medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness

Moderate: Ableism, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Vomit

skbat's review against another edition

emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Mental illness, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, and Death of parent

Moderate: Body horror, Cancer, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Infertility, Vomit, and Car accident

sara_hoffman_mcmillian's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, and Death of parent

Minor: Cancer and Vomit

lost_windsock's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad fast-paced

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

5.0

This book. This book had me so full of feels. I was absolutely furious for Anna. The way her family treated her, and the way she felt trapped in her own mind, unable to say no, was devastating to sit through. I wanted to jump into the pages and shout NO for her! It was truly heartbreaking to see that no one would listen to her. Except Quan. Sweet, loving, caring Quan. What a journey he'd been through between the second book and this one. Quan was always one of my favorite characters, and while his story had a painful tinge in this book, it was still just perfectly him to be there for Anna and learn to trust himself again. This book made me feel so many things, and I just could not have loved it more. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Cancer, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, and Death of parent

lingoreads's review against another edition

emotional 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship and Death of parent

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Vomit

fromjuliereads's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring sad 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

3.5

This was what I needed in my current reading mood, with the book being fast paced! I had read other reviews that it was a bit different than the first 2 books and it is definitely more serious. For the second half of the book, the romance takes a major back seat. But I did still enjoy it! Mostly because I love Quan's character.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Medical content, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Vomit

Toxic family relationships

loquitacass's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Death of parent

Moderate: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Excrement

Minor: Vomit

ashleyvaleria's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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

2nd book i read after a long reading slump. different from the other 2 books in this series but still very much enjoyable. a lot more tense and sad than the others but still amazing writing as always. anna’s journey was difficult to read as her journey in this book is very tense but her character development is amazing. again there is autism representation that helps me understand it a little more which i appreciate. overall a pretty easy read with a lot of character development :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship and Death of parent

Minor: Infertility, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Sexual harassment