Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Bared to You by Sylvia Day

9 reviews

shargrave81's review against another edition

dark 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Alcohol

Submissive/dominate type relationship with extreme sexual scenes, medium/fast paced, was drawn in right away!!

harinireadsagain's review against another edition

emotional relaxing tense medium-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

4.0

After reading "Seven Years to Sin" there wasn't an excitement to pick this series right away. But mentions of good writing in many reviews drew me to it, and they were right. 
The series is always compared to the 50 shades series. No idea personally how close they are, except that the premise is the same - Young inexperienced FMC, intense billionaire MMC

The series needs triggers. Multiple characters, including FMC and MMC, deal with very traumatic pasts through the entire series, and the ups and downs of living with that past, I think, is very well done. 

Naturally, being the first book, we only see the flaws first. We get to FMC's past by the end of the book, but MMC's needs more patience.

The 3D characterization of other supporting characters, the mystery of their pasts, their incredibly volatile relationship, are all well done. The book may lure you with its smut, but you'll stay for everything else

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, and Sexual assault

beckyremillard's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

lapetitetulipe's review against another edition

challenging funny reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

0.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Addiction, Biphobia, Mental illness, and Toxic friendship

sophiedow1864's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Stalking, and Toxic friendship

mayasloveforbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.5

thought it had some striking resemblance to the fifty shades of grey series, which i’ve seen and read quite a few similar ones. this one has been by far the best and more unique to the rest which i like, and i for sure will continue to read onto the next book in the series. 
in regards to the characters: 
gideon is kinda an informal name you don’t often read in books so it took some time to get used to other than that i loved the plot and learned to love the bickering of the back and forth of the characters. 
eva is super likeable from the beginning + you don’t normally get a woman character quite like hers so she would be at the top of my list with these types of books. she’s definitely a business woman through and through, a mere match to her match. ❤️ green flags all around for this book(and a few red but that’s okay)

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

taleofabibliophile's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Alcohol

Minor: Drug use, Self harm, and Stalking

roseamillerg's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

2.0

-the relationship in this book is so toxic. 

-the spice was quite repetitive bc it was either in Gideon’s office, car, or bedroom. 

-moreover, the opinions in this book are very outdated. ex: suicide is referred to as the ‘easy and selfish way out’ 
the ignorance..😑🤦‍♀️ 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Body horror, Incest, Miscarriage, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Abandonment and Alcohol

kthrine's review against another edition

2.0

This entire book spans at most 3 weeks. It’s definitely a case of falling obsessively in love immediately. 

There are SO MANY RED FLAGS in this relationship. As long as you don’t think ANYTHING these characters do is healthy you’re fine. Eva says no multiple times and Gideon doesn’t listen. Fucking YIKES. 

The author throws in a few moments of potentially healthy aspects but then in the next sentence chucks it out the window. Therapy? Good! Healthy! These characters need it on a weekly basis, both alone and as a couple. Eva seems to think that because she already went to therapy she only needs couples therapy and not to go alone anymore. No. She needs therapy. And she needs to keep working on herself and her issues, of which there are many. 

They “break up” for 4 days (which is roughly 1/3 of their actual relationship time frame) and make up. It’s this fight, have sex, make up, fight, have sex, make up cycle that doesn’t do it for me as far as relationships go. The sex scenes are good and interesting but their relationship seems fairly light and superficial even given the fact that they are sharing private things about themselves. They don’t seem to be learning anything about how to be in a relationship from learning about each other. Just an all consuming “need” for one another. 


It’s fine. I ready it quickly, I’ll probably read more in the series but I’m not in any rush to do so. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Rape

Moderate: Mental illness, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Suicide