Reviews tagging 'Sexual harassment'

Dear Love, I Hate You by Eliah Greenwood

5 reviews

michellebub's review

emotional funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.0

Wieso muss man heutzutage sozialmedia in Büchern erwähnen, SNAPCHAT?! dass die sich Bilder schicken und es 4 Sekunden lang machen ?? No, absolut nicht. Und dann hatten die Telefonsex, als ob ich nicht schon genügend gelitten habe.

Das war so Drama beladen, ich wollte am Ende garnicht mal weiterlesen. Das war mir einfach zu viel, zu viel Einsatz, zu viel zu verlieren. Ich hab das Gefühl die beiden hatten nie wirklich die Zeit um glücklich zusammen zu sein. Sonst hatten die immer noch Hindernisse. Nach jedem glücklichen Moment (Sex) kam schon wieder ein Problem. Und ich muss wegen dem Sex sagen dass ich das irgendwie nicht erwartet habe. Normalerweise wenn ich sehe dass es um Highschool Schüler geht nehme ich an dass es YA( young adult) ist oder zumindest keine Sex Szenen enthält, aber dies war hier leider nicht der Fall. So kann man wohl den Roman als New-adult einstufen, aber das rechtfertigt das ganze noch nicht. Natürlich hat die Autorin dieses Dilemma geregelt in dem sie die Protagonisten 18 Jahre alt gemacht hat. Somit handelt es sich nicht um minderjährige, aber richtig macht es das ganze trotzdem nicht. Da ich aber in deren Alter bin werde ich das wohl übersehen aber seit gewarnt.
Wo wir schon von Warnung sprechen, sexuelle Belästigung ist ein GROSSES Thema, also wer dies nicht lesen will sollte vielleicht was anderes Lesen. Das selbe gilt auch häusliche Gewalt und Suizid (Suizid eines Verwandten) mit diesen Trigger warnings ist nicht zu scherzen.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Death of parent, and Sexual harassment

andellabella's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective sad

2.75

Idk how to feel there’s topics that are really big and heavy that just get brushed up.
 But I love the premise.
I just didn’t like how it felt like a YA and 30% in the book they have sex I was astonished.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

idekfeebs's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Rape, Suicide, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

aelin4's review against another edition

fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, Drug use, Misogyny, and Physical abuse

virgoupallnight's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-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? Yes

3.0

The style of this book is very Wattpad-esque.

Girl “doesn’t” like boy, meet cute, boy and girl fall in love, boy and girl break up and get back together several times, happily ever after

. Don’t get me wrong I love a cheesy romance as much as the next person, but it becomes exhausting when every bad thing in the world that could happen, happens to both main characters and somehow every issue is forced into resolution by the end of the book. In several cases, it seems like the author just tired of the problem that she gave the character so she created the shortest, lowest effort resolution to move on from that issue.

For example when Aveena makes up with her mother after nine years of neglect, all it took was her mother to cry and show that she missed her dad? Maybe I’m just being cynical but I feel like the damage and emotional abuse/neglect wouldn’t just vanish like that. Or consider the fact that she was drugged and assaulted and within hours of waking up was basically over it and DTF with Xavier? I mean everyone handles trauma in their own way but the fact that it’s so casually glossed over and then never brought up again to me means that there could’ve been a better way to bring the two characters back together.

I believe that if the characters hadn’t been given every conflict possible the author could have developed some of the more character-building trauma in their lives.

I mean for Pete’s sake you don’t find out that Xavier was injured in the boating accident (or even on the boat when it happened) that killed Finn’s mom until almost the end of the book and then several pages later that trauma is being sexualized by Aveena before it’s pretty much never mentioned again

. Overall, I think this book should have gone through a bit more editing, but it was still a decent read with a professional feel to the writing style. I finished the book and overall thought it was decent which is why I still gave it a 3/5, but I don’t think it will be one of those books that I pickup and comfort read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Pregnancy