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Long Shot - Special Edition by Kennedy Ryan

69 reviews

blairnicolereads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Blood, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death and Death of parent

danajoy's review against another edition

Graphic Domestic violence and entrapment. I can't handle this right now. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Mental illness, Violence, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

Minor: Kidnapping

ororoboreal's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Murder, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

briandagutierrez's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.75

I need to gather my thoughts but honestly, I hate this story for being so good. It’s downright painful to read but also hard to put down and the ending was everything I could’ve hoped for after the first part. It was rough and heartbreaking and important and unfortunately relatable for a lot of people.
This is not for folks looking for a light read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death, Blood, and Death of parent

southern_bookbabe's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

This book was heartbreakingly beautiful. It tackles some tough issues but definitely ones that need to be discussed! It wrecked me in the best and worst of ways. Proceed with caution. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Injury/Injury detail

kitcat_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

I love this book, but also finding myself wanting to chuck it against the wall. I don’t think this is a Romance book. The first half the book is spent showing how Iris and August are living separate lives and come together at different points with a deep connection and tension between them. Theirs is a love story. It’s heartbreaking and for Iris, tragic, but ultimately this is not a romance novel.

There is no happy ending or happy for now for both characters before the epilogue. There’s certainly resolution of a major plot point for the MMCs.

But really, this is a contemporary sports fiction novel with romantic elements and an emotional love story between the main characters at the heart. 

I never felt - from the start of the book - that Iris was in love with Caleb.

I also never understood why her character would willingly choose to have a baby with a man who, for all intents and purposes in this book, sounds like he sabotaged their contraceptives. For all her grandstanding to August about what an independent woman she was she caved when she found out she was pregnant with someone who she barely liked.

There are descriptive depictions of physical and emotional abuse, rape, and sodomy against the FMC. Yes, there is a trigger warning at the start of the book about intimate partner violence but, this was hard to read and, admittedly I skipped those parts of the book to finish the book and intermittently went back to read/skim for context. 

I’m bothered that the real love story for Iris and August, where they can truly be together and with each other is comprised of 144 pages (prior to the Epilogue) while 264 pages are dedicated to detailing Iris’ toxic relationship with Caleb, including detailed pages of the intimate partner violence Iris suffers, and August’s pining for Iris while seeking physical pleasure with other women. 36 pages are dedicated to the epilogue and bonus epilogue where the HEA/HFN happen. 

Again, I loved the writing and story telling in the book. I kept turning each page because I had to know what was happening. But I just wish this would have been a duet rather than this all-in one story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical trauma, Stalking, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

lovethyshelfie's review against another edition

I feel bamboozled. This is not the sweet, second chance romance I thought I was getting. The MC's spend 65% of the book separated and when they do finally get together, it feels manipulative. August kept pushing himself into Iris' life but he did it in such a way that it was meant to be seen as sweet, especially when compared to his counterpart, Caleb's, actions. BUT in reality, it was just another form of manipulation. The on page domestic violence and rape was shocking. There were no trigger warnings in the book and nothing to hint at the brutality within the pages. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

karataylor's review against another edition

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Stalking, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

the booktok girlies need to give TWs and also seek therapy!!!!

sydnees's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring 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

5.0

Wow. Just… wow. This was by far the most powerful, heartbreaking and well written book I’ve read in ages. 

I jumped into this book completely blind, it looked like a sports romance but I was pleasantly surprised by the gut wrenching story I was in for instead. Kennedy Ryan is a new author to me but I cannot wait to read the rest of this series and the other books I have by her already on my physical tbr. 

Iris is the strongest FMC I’ve ever read, and her story was so horrifically yet so beautifully written. 

PLEASE read TW before reading! (I don’t have any TW which is why I don’t do this) Without reading the blurb, this book looks like any normal sports romance by its cover, but it is not. This books main focus is domestic violence and has extremely triggering instances throughout the entirety of the book consisting of heavily detailed SA and physical abuse by the FMC’s husband (not the MMC). 

That being said, I loved this book and am so grateful for Kennedy for writing this story. It needed to be told. 🖤

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Blood, and Murder

Minor: Infidelity

littleredmacks's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful 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

4.5

4.5 stars 

Basketball romance 

Abusive relationship 

Healing 

 

What a book. So glad I read the trigger warnings before getting into this one. But wow. Kennedy Ryan is a romance goddess. 

 

Let me just say that I had visceral reactions to Caleb in the beginning of the book. VISCERAL. And as it went on those feelings just kept getting bigger and it def triggered my fight or flight a time or a two. 

 

Love it. If you can handle the content it’s a good book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail