Reviews tagging 'Toxic friendship'

Forget Me Not by Alyson Derrick

9 reviews

beaky's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Alyson Derrick smashes it out of the park. Forget Me Not is heartbreaking and hilarious (i genuinely lol’d) i also nearly cried. the ending is everything, and while i didn’t love the prose at the beginning i feel in love with it by the end. this is obviously perfect for fans of how to get the girl and all other Alyson Derrick or Rachel Lippincott fans! it’s the perfect, heartbreaking yet healing sapphic romance ! (i also read it in less than 24 hours!!)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Racism, Medical trauma, Medical content, Homophobia, Child abuse, and Abandonment

Moderate: Abortion and Injury/Injury detail

bg_oseman_fan's review

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

This book plays with the amnesia trope in a way that is very unique. I love how Stevie’s pov is written. Ultimately, some of the relationships between Stevie and her friends seem a little off, and too many characters seem really flat, and developments seem to be pushed along regardless of whether the groundwork for them had really been laid. It is a good story about the power of tenacity and love to change your world. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Violence, Gaslighting, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and Racism

Moderate: Homophobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Lesbophobia, Outing, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, and Cursing

kateausten's review

emotional hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Toxic friendship, Violence, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

Minor: Alcohol and Sexual content

gwynethburns21's review

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Alcohol, Child abuse, Toxic friendship, Outing, Abortion, and Physical abuse

allisoncc's review

emotional hopeful reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Child abuse, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Toxic friendship, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Animal death, Medical content, Sexual content, and Religious bigotry

astraeal's review

emotional hopeful

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racism, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Religious bigotry, Medical content, and Outing

midnightbelles's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Im literally in tears. This is the book little teenage me needed but adult me is so grateful to have. I can’t explain how much I connected with this story and just how much knowing something like this exists for young teens like Stevie comforts me. This is a perfectly cheesy, heartbreaking, and sweet novel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Cursing, Homophobia, Abandonment, Toxic friendship, Xenophobia, Medical content, Child abuse, Physical abuse, and Racism

Moderate: Sexual content

nicoleanthony's review

emotional inspiring mysterious sad tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Hate crime, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Racial slurs, Racism, Religious bigotry, Toxic friendship, Physical abuse, Violence, Antisemitism, Homophobia, and Injury/Injury detail

opalmars's review

medium-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Medical content, Lesbophobia, Racism, Abandonment, Car accident, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, and Physical abuse