Reviews tagging 'Stalking'

Pretend You're Mine by Lucy Score

11 reviews

worldofv33's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Sexual content, Violence, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Deadnaming, Physical abuse, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Medical content, Stalking, Alcohol, and War

literarylily's review

emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

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

3.75

This was an enjoyable read with typical Lucy Score drama, but enough unrealistic stuff to drop my rating a little. I mean who moves in with and shares a bed with a guy they just met?!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Grief

Moderate: Child abuse, Stalking, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death of parent, Pregnancy, and War

author2223's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Grief

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Stalking, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail

memoirsofabooklover's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

it took a minute to adjust to the 3rd person writing and a bit longer than usual to connect to the characters but i love harper so much, she’s an awesome human and i love how fierce she is.

i was not a fan of her violating luke’s most painful traumas. whilst he should have already told her what had happened sometimes it takes time to let down those walls and open up, and although i would also want to snoop so badly it just felt wrong when she did that. that being said luke was a dumbass for refusing to admit that he obviously loved her but i understand the reasons behind why he was being like that. the 3rd act breakup was way more painful than i was expecting and the proposal through acts of service and words of affirmation at the end brought tears to my eyes.

i loved this little town and i love aldo and gloria so much and can’t wait to read their book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Grief

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, Car accident, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal death, Pedophilia, Toxic relationship, Blood, Stalking, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

sami_leigh's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

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

5.0

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟/5
🌶️🌶️🌶️.5/5

She had called a lot of places home, but it was for the lack of a better word. She never really felt at home anywhere.

She laughed a lot. It was a sound that warmed him up. A sound that made him realise how quiet his life had become before. A sound that made him wonder why he had valued the silence so much. 

“Fact is, I just don’t have room in my life for her.”
“You’ve got the room; you’re just too chickenshit to make it.”

“I wanted to be memorable.”
“Baby, it would take more than all the time in the world for me to forget you.”

“You can’t put your worth in someone else’s hands like that . . . Whether you mean something to him or not has nothing to do with how inherently valuable you are.”

🌅 Third person 
🌅 Meet-disaster
🌅 Fake dating 
🌅 Friends with benefits 
🌅 National Guard; he deploys in a month
🌅 She’s starting fresh…again
🌅 Protective MMC
🌅 He has secrets
🌅 FMC who understands her worth makes the most of every day 🙌🏻
🌅 Insta-chemistry 
🌅 Small town
🌅 Meddling townsfolk
🌅 Tension 🔥 
🌅 Found family 
🌅 Representation of foster care 
🌅 Well established secondary characters: Claire & Charles, Sophie & Ty, Gloria, Aldo (Book 2), Linc (Book 3), Josh, James, Joni, Angry Frank.
🌅 MC growth: grief, communication, guilt, overcoming past trauma.
🌅 Epilogue 
• MMC’s perception of the FMC is a klutz who need supervision isn’t fully resolved.

⚠️ Death of a parent (past), car accident (past), death (past), injury/injury detail (explicit), medical trauma (explicit), active duty (MMC deploys in National Guard), child abuse (past, moderate), domestic abuse (not MCs, explicit), violence (moderate), stalking (moderate).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Medical trauma, Car accident, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Violence, Stalking, and War

arwenaardbeienstruik's review against another edition

sad

1.0

The whole book is basicly the mmc saying he doesn't love the fmc and getting mad at her for 'taking over his life'. While the fmc just accepts that without groveling one bit from the mmc.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and War

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

avery_hutchinson's review against another edition

emotional inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

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

3.5

One of my least favorite Lucy Score books (I love most of them) because it felt like the main man did not have to do much to win back the girl that fell in love wayyyy to quickly and put up with pretty much anything from him

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, and Stalking

morbookish's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Stalking, and Car accident

nicoleolander's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Child abuse, Grief, Death of parent, and War

Minor: Stalking

daisycantread24's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced

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

3.75

Overall a good book, but Luke really got on my nerves for most of it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Car accident

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Stalking