Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Twice Shy by Sarah Hogle

15 reviews

aurora4847's review against another edition

funny lighthearted relaxing 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Death, Sexual content, and Abandonment

Minor: Animal death, Cursing, Misogyny, Racism, Terminal illness, and Vomit

beckybeth's review against another edition

funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted relaxing 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

5.0

Such a sweet story!!! My first StoryGraph rec knocked it put of the park!! Does a beautiful job of portraying a lovely, realistic story with a MC with social anxiety. And a parallel backstory of the previous owners made it even more heartwarming. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Panic attacks/disorders, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Animal death and Terminal illness

katievallin's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Death, Sexual content, and Grief

Minor: Animal death, Racism, and Sexism

anielabooks's review

funny hopeful lighthearted relaxing 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

3.0

It was entertaining, but I wasn’t hooked. The narrating that Maybel does can sound a bit cringy at times. However, I really like Wesley’s character and the mental illness representation. As someone that experiences panic attacks, I felt it was handled very respectfully. While I wasn’t in love with this book, Hogle’s other work, “You Deserve Each Other” is one of my all time favorite contemporary romances. If you were disappointed with this one, I recommend to still give the other a chance.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Sexual content, and Grief

Minor: Animal death, Racism, and Death of parent

thk's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Grief, and Abandonment

viviundworte's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Death

Minor: Animal death, Toxic relationship, and Car accident

wilybooklover's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted medium-paced

5.0

Reading this felt like drinking a mug of hot chocolate; comforting and sweet in a simple yet charming way. 

I found both main characters really relatable. As a daydreamer myself (albeit not to this extent), I enjoyed reading a main character who daydreams in such vivid detail and loses herself in an imaginary world. Contrary to some other readers, I didn’t find it difficult to tell when the daydreams began or that the daydreams took over the narrative compared to the plot. Also, like Maybell, I do appreciate a man in a nice cardigan. 

Wesley was just the most adorable cinnamon roll ever despite his grouchy exterior, especially after the 40% mark when he starts to open up. I appreciated that the ~power of love~ didn’t miraculously cure him of his social anxiety like it does so often in romances. His dislike of socialising definitely spoke to me. 

I did think the side characters were a bit too cruel to be real, although they didn’t take up much page time and the cruelty was tempered by the sweetness of the romance. The house renovations were also completed unrealistically quickly with remarkably few hiccups. That never happens. 

Overall, this was a really cute, fluffy read that still had a lot of depth and heart to it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Grief, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Animal death, Bullying, Misogyny, and Racism

notbrhymes's review against another edition

funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.0

this book was DAMN funny. i laughed out loud more reading this than I have in any book that I can remember. On top of that it was cute af & the characters felt real to me. Wesley is so sweet and Maybell certainly handles the third act conflict ™️  better than I would lmao

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Animal death

flapidus's review against another edition

funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal death and Child abuse

booknerdbetty's review

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Animal death, Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Sexism, Sexual content, and Car accident