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elderwoodreads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Graphic: Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Car accident, and Alcohol
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Misogyny, Sexual content, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Violence, Blood, and Vomit
cbook1211's review against another edition
3.5
Moderate: Cursing, Drug use, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Car accident
mandarrr's review against another edition
- 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
3.25
Graphic: Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexism, and Sexual content
taraaleitz's review against another edition
The first page had be already wanting to stop reading, but I persisted for a whole 30 pages before deciding I really didn’t like this book. The characters aren’t likable, so it makes reading a very unlikable plot extremely difficult. There’s so substance to the story—it seems to be just a lot of pointless drama, materialistic tendencies, and overall extremely superficial.
The main character is Lucy and the whole book (I believe—again I only read 30 pages, plus skimmed some) is based around her unhealthy “relationship” with a boy named Stephen that she can’t fully get over. Stephen boasts in the thrill of chasing after a girl and making her fall for him, finds satisfaction in pursuing multiple women at a time, and very much sexualizes women.
I am not interested in entertaining this read anymore—even reading the first 30 pages was too many pages for me. Some may say that I didn’t give this book a chance, but I tried skipping ahead to read some more of the context to see if it’s all more of the same.
Moderate: Eating disorder, Misogyny, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Sexual content
courtneys317's review
- 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
2.75
Graphic: Toxic relationship
Moderate: Drug use, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Sexual content, and Car accident
Minor: Mental illness
sprucewillow's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Drug use, Eating disorder, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Fatphobia, Mental illness, and Sexual content
Minor: Death, Vomit, and Car accident
snjos58's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Body shaming, Cursing, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Car accident, and Gaslighting
sldibened's review against another edition
- 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
5.0
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol
Eating disorders, abusive relationships, sex, drugs & alcoholivanaestaba's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting
_simplyrochellereads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
I enjoyed the writing of this book. From the beginning I enjoyed it, but I did not enjoy the back and forth toxicity from Steven. Steven was very cringey, narcissistic, and had no consideration for women. It seems like he was taking his mother abandonment issues out on these woman. It took the beginning to the end of the book to help us understand from the first four pages that Steven and Lucy would not end up together; he didn’t deserve her and she needed to figure her mess out sooner.
Graphic: Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Car accident, and Alcohol