Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Lilac by B.B. Reid

56 reviews

jessanicolesingh's review against another edition

emotional funny tense 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

4.0

I really enjoyed the premise of this book; an enemies to lovers reverse harem with a rock band on tour, HEAVY on the bully trope. It was hot, fun, and full of angst, yet had a lot of emotional factors too.

This book was a slow, slow burn. The bully cycle was on rinse and repeat, and they had miscommunications galore. Keeping up with this crew's hot and cold tension gave me some serious whiplash, but I knew what I signed up for.

Each of the three men were different enough in personalities and their individual relationships with the FMC, but I still found myself having to double check halfway through each chapter to remind myself whose POV I was reading.

I also found that the synesthesia was a little much sometimes. I totally understand it's role in the story, but it was mentioned so much it was hammered to death rather than just into your head.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Abortion, and Pregnancy

teen pregnancy, child marriage

raindrops333's review against another edition

adventurous emotional slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Abandonment

Minor: Religious bigotry and Abortion

kat_jack's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

1.0

dnf at around 72% mainly cause I couldn't get over a s***al scene. It was an ick I didn't know I had. Disappointed by how much plot was in there if I'm being honest.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, and Sexual content

Moderate: Drug abuse, Religious bigotry, and Alcohol

Minor: Death and Pregnancy

innae's review against another edition

4.5

I enjoyed this story of the band, Bound, Houston, Loren and Jericho are fantastic..they just needed Brac to make everything better, and worse.  Oh the drama!!   And I love!!  The reason for the title

Lilac is what love smells like

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Suicide, Religious bigotry, Abortion, and Pregnancy

heysunnyjess's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Religious bigotry

shaykay's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

3.0

Lilac has been sitting on my TBR for a while, and I finally took the plunge. It was an exciting book. But it felt like everything wrapped up really fast, and then the end had a big bang, but there was just so much in the middle that nothing happened. I wish we had more band content or even some drama. Even the whole enemies-to-lover thing was wrapped up too soon. I wanted more from this one, especially since it was over 500 pages.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, and Sexual content

Moderate: Child abuse, Infidelity, and Gaslighting

islandlife88's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

chrisljm's review against another edition

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Religious bigotry, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Addiction, Child abuse, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Infidelity, Suicide, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Medical content, and Abortion

gabrielle_d20's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Grief, Religious bigotry, and Alcohol

peruru25's review against another edition

funny tense 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

J’ai mis un long moment à apprécier la lecture 
Les mecs étaient juste insupportables pendant la moitié du livre 😭 la meuf aussi un peu 
Mais c’était sympa 
La petite représentation bi 💯

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Violence