Reviews tagging Sexual content

Layla, by Colleen Hoover

47 reviews

jomorby's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content

layla_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.0

layla is too good for leeds. #ihateleeds

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Gun violence, Sexual content, Death, Medical content, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical trauma, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, and Physical abuse

kaiouelios's review against another edition

emotional mysterious 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? No

1.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Suicide, and Gun violence

Moderate: Sexual content

sarah2438's review against another edition

1.0

This was so bad lol I thought it couldn't get any worse and then the twist with Sable and the attempts at explaining the paranormal just became too much. Leeds is a straight up psycho and this book is a case in point of why the ends DON'T always justify the means.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting and Sexual content

Moderate: Infidelity

Minor: Eating disorder

edie_erkens's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Murder and Sexual content

Minor: Gun violence, Mental illness, and Eating disorder

charhollyx's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• 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

A wild, wild ride. CoHo did an excellent job with her first paranormal romance and I ate up EVERY word. So many twists, so mysterious with the tension building each chapter and more unanswered questions rising. I loved it.
A few grammar errors which happens on kindle unlimited but I didn’t mind that one bit. Great story!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder, Infidelity, Suicide attempt, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexual content

rebecca_self's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Suicide

downtown_kb's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Suicide, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Death, Injury/injury detail, Sexual content, and Eating disorder

Spoiler

there is cheating in this book, but it gets explained/excused

anniehendricks's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Gun violence, Torture, Eating disorder, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Murder, Medical trauma, Death, Mental illness, Infidelity, Grief, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

bluebearywitchy's review against another edition

emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

3.75

Falling in love with her was weightless, like air was breezing through my bones. Falling out of love is fucking heavy, like my lungs are carved from iron.
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The story starts in current time with Leeds conversing with another man who's there to help him find answers as Leeds recounts the past months while his girlfriend Layla is held hostage upstairs. 

Leeds struck me as someone who got obsessive quickly because Layla wasn't "like the other girls" and he needed something exciting in his life, so it didn't surprise me how he started to act after Layla was shot and Willow the ghost gave him those feelings again.

The entire time I kept thinking, Layla is the only true victim here, and the plot twist had me shook. Does it excuse all the abuse, torture, gaslighting, and other fucked up shit that was done? No, but it really puts the entire story in a new perspective. I've hated every CoHo book thus far, so I had low expectations for this, but this would be a book I'd read again now that I know the outcome.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping and Emotional abuse

Minor: Sexual content