Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

The Love of My Next Life by Brit Benson

2 reviews

shaykay's review

dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.5

This one was such a doozy. I couldn't help but root for Macon and Lennon. I hated how things kept getting in the way, and they had almost all the odds against them. By the end of this book, things are flipped upside down compared to where we first started this book. So Macon is the bad boy/best friend's older brother while Lennon is a kind of a sheltered good girl whose father is hardly around due to his job, but he lets her stay home for weeks/months on her own. Sometimes, she would stay at her best friend's house so she wouldn't be alone. Now, this friendship was always a little toxic. She always had to have everything her way and would make Lennon bend over backward. But Lennon would take it. The only thing she really stood her ground on was Macon, and even then, she lied for most of the book and only came clean after they got caught. By this point, her dad had married his mom, so now they're like step-siblings. The book goes through many tropes and, unfortunately, ends on a cliffhanger, but it does get answered in the next book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Drug abuse, Sexual content, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Physical abuse, Suicide, Violence, and Alcohol

cobaltmade's review

dark emotional 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

2.5

claire was the WORST friend ever, who agrees to be DD and gets "buzzed" please she's so possessive for no reason?? she sounded like a child at the end when macon broke his promise.

macon is so toxic to sam and to lennon. macon and lennon both did sam and eric wrong. len keeps saying she and eric are just friends but it's so obvious that eric has feelings for her, she's leading her on. the way eric still was civil at the prom even though he got beat up. eric deserves sm better!!

lennon keeps correcting <b>brother</b> to <b>stepbrother</b> as if it makes any difference. and what's with macon peeing in front of her was so unnecessary why was that even put in 😭😭

macon did have some redeemable parts ngl like the flowers, the mug, and the art center

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Suicide and Death of parent

Minor: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail