Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire

25 reviews

sillyduckie's review against another edition

challenging dark tense slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Stalking, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Vomit and Kidnapping

arremsie's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

2.0

the first half of the book was lowkey so bad that it was good, and that’s where my stars go to, but god the second half was just bad. i was struggling to want to finish it because i just kept cringing and rolling my eyes at not only the characters but the plot lines as well. also as a vegas native, those parts were so……. i can’t lmao

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Genocide, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

cdkm9's review against another edition

Couldn’t finish it. Romanticizes violent, controlling, abusive behavior. It also annoyed me how it supposedly takes place in a college but instead is this weird high school- like environment where everyone eats lunch at the same time and sits in the same spot every day and is very invested in the relationship status of a few individuals. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Vomit

pink_peony's review against another edition

emotional reflective tense fast-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

The relationship is very toxic and juvenile.

danaburrreads's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Sexism

Minor: Death of parent

rafacolog's review against another edition

emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

0.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Racism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Violence

laniebear's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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? Yes

5.0

Okay totally cried but I’m an emotional mess but I loved this book so much!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexual content, Violence, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

joey_paige's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Violence, and Gaslighting

angeliq_star's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

1.0

If you liked this book then just skip reading this review? So like you don’t get offended or mad

I’ll be 100% honest this book by no means is great or good even, but I found it somewhat enjoyable???? purely guilty pleasure and it was a fast and trashy read. The beginning started off good which was the enjoyable part I guess but then it just started going down hill and it got unnecessarily dramatic. Me enjoying this book is largely due to the fact I was buddy reading it with a friend, I had a blast poking fun at the characters because I found them all to be ridiculous and unreal to a certain extent. Like literally with every page I flipped, the plot the characters made sense and for example Travis just got ridiculously worse (his behavior is not okay at all and honestly he should have just ended up in jail- not that he would even be smart enough to get away or even survive but anyway I’m getting ahead of myself)

I originally rated it 3.5 stars (on goodreads) when I finished reading but once again it was because of the jokes me and my friend made that made me give it that high of a rating. Now after a couple of years I notice that it was a mistake on my behalf and should waited a bit before rating it. When I think back about this book, right now rate it one star. (idk why it took me long to review it).

The writing was fine honestly buuut everything else was a complete miss. it’s actually awful. Nothing about this book is healthy or good, it isn’t romance it’s purely just toxic relationships and none of the characters are even memorable nor lovable. There is a lot of scenes where it just gets so disturbing, Travis is just an obsessive psychopath that gets worse by the page, his behavior was so awful, one scene comes to mind when he couldn’t find Abby after they slept together and completely destroys the apparent. Absolutely not an okay behavior nor romantic. As for Abby- I don’t even remember much of her personality other than being an idiot. And then getting married in Vegas at 19, hell no. Not to mention it was full of cliché. 

The book did keep me interested (and my friend helped me to keep reading), however I do not recommend it to anyone and if you’re reading reviews whether to read it or not. I say don’t bother. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Blood, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

ofmeganreads's review against another edition

I just couldn’t. I read mixed reviews and as I continued to read, it just felt weird. I started this book because of the movie that’s coming out. I’ll wait for the movie to see how it is. But the obsession Travis begins to have is borderline creepy and scary. I don’t know if it gets better or if he learns, but still weird. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Alcohol