Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

Dear Love, I Hate You by Eliah Greenwood

29 reviews

readwithelle's review against another edition

medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Sexual content

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Sexual assault

noorajk's review against another edition

emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Suicide

zabeishumanish's review against another edition

emotional slow-paced

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

3.75

This book was fun and unique, it was overall a super enjoyable read. The ending was piss poor though, the couple were the only two in the book who had anything close to a satisfactory ending. For me, any book that I reach the 50% mark and feel like the book could easily be wrapped up in the next few pages is a huge red flag.  In this particular case, all of the drama that was built up through the first half of the book could have easily been resolved by the 60% mark of this book, so everything after that felt like drama was just being created for the sake of making the book longer not really enhancing the plot. I honestly wish I had DNF'ed this at 50-60%. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

bookswithatlas's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

abbbymyles's review against another edition

dark emotional funny tense fast-paced

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

3.5

this would’ve been a 4 star if it weren’t for the final 30% of the book. I was so intrigued off the bat and couldn’t put the book down, until about 70% of the way through.

such good use of childhood friends to enemies to lovers & anonymity/letter writing tropes

I definitely think this book should be advertised as New Adult, not Young Adult, and would be more believable if set on a university campus. The characters, their lifestyle, their development, and the plot did not line up with high school aged characters. It made it feel disconnected and unrealistic.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Death of parent

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Domestic abuse, Drug use, and Infidelity

this would’ve been a 4 star if it weren’t for the final 30% of the book. I was so intrigued off the bat and couldn’t put the book down, until about 70% of the way through. such good use of childhood friends to enemies to lovers & anonymity/letter writing tropes I definitely think this book should be advertised as New Adult, not Young Adult, and would be more believable if set on a university campus. The characters, their lifestyle, their development, and the plot did not line up with high school aged characters. It made it feel disconnected and unrealistic.

stxrmblessed's review against another edition

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Drug use and Death of parent

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

angelnati's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny lighthearted 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Infidelity, Rape, and Suicide

nelthilta's review against another edition

dark emotional fast-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Death, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Moderate: Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship