Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

No Judgments by Meg Cabot

18 reviews

aitzko's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted relaxing 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault

Minor: Animal cruelty

mgdmcc's review

I will preface by saying I love Meg Cabot. I grew up with The Mediator and Princess Diaries series. I love the Heather Wells and Insatiable serieses. I had no expectations beyond a fun, fluffy, romance. No Judgements is not, in my opinion, a good read even for silly fun. As many of the other reviews pointed out, the romance feels like a half-baked “enemies-to-lovers” attempt that never actually fills the expectations of the trope. The tone is a weird mix of fun and hurricane preparedness lectures that no one follows anyway and the setting despite being in the present feels like it throws you back to 2003 by the way everyone around the main character reacts to (spoiler kind of but not really) her experience with sexual assault. It felt like every part of that storyline was a shallow representation of a really deep issue that constantly got trivialized by everyone in an outdated way, including the main character at times, in a way that feels really painfully tone deaf. Sad to say I couldn't finish and really cannot suggest.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual harassment and Sexual assault

beckyguynn1's review against another edition

lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual assault

mariamsaidwhat's review against another edition

adventurous challenging funny lighthearted fast-paced

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

3.0

Unhinged 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Toxic relationship, Animal cruelty, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

Minor: Death of parent

mountaindrew28's review

fast-paced

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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Gun violence and Death of parent

Minor: Addiction, Grief, Drug abuse, and Drug use

saeruh's review against another edition

lighthearted

2.75

Was this book good? No! Did I have fun reading it simply because everyone was so dumb in it? YES!!! 
As a native floridian it was so funny that our main character was so unaware and so unprepared for the category 5 hurricane which

did not actually destroy anything really despite it being so hyped up

 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Animal cruelty, Death of parent, and Sexual assault

Minor: Alcoholism

thenovelmaura's review against another edition

lighthearted medium-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

2.0

I am a longtime Cabot fan but this is my first time reading one of her adult novels! I was initially going to give this one 3 stars, and then I started reading other Goodreads reviews and remembered how incredibly irritating it was that Bree refused to evacuate during a Category 5 hurricane. Setting that aside (although I fully understand how impossible it was for some readers to ignore such a privileged stance on natural disasters), I still enjoyed Cabot's charming writing style. Both Bree and Drew annoyed me, but the larger cast of characters were fun and gave the book a ton of small-town charisma. The romance was not the most compelling and the book should have been much shorter than it was. Overall, the setting was the best part of the book for me, so I think the series itself shows promise (let's leave hurricanes out of the next book, shall we?).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Gun violence, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Alcoholism

eeyore16's review

lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.25

The blurb given by the back of the book is a bit misleading. The book spends a lot of time on the time period leading up to the hurricane. The aftermath is discussed but the looking after pets left behind (as described in the blurb) is a very small part. Otherwise, a generally enjoyable book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Sexual assault

Minor: Death of parent

nonidude's review

emotional hopeful lighthearted sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.0

The characters and plot just didn't resonate with me, romance was a little too cheesy...

Quick read but not a Meg Cabot fave.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Alcohol, Murder, Alcoholism, and Drug use

michelleklejmont's review against another edition

fast-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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault and Animal cruelty