liveship's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Gaslighting, Confinement, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Stalking, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Sexual content, Medical content, Terminal illness, Fatphobia, Injury/injury detail, Cancer, and Violence
jillie's review against another edition
3.5
Check the content warnings. Thought this would just be fluffy and there was definitely more to it than that.
3/6/23 - 3/8/23
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Terminal illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Stalking, and Sexual assault
lillypad5455's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Body shaming, Stalking, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, and Confinement
All content is mild and the writer does it in a non triggering way that approaches the topics slowlyewalkergrace's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, and Emotional abuse
Moderate: Stalking
Minor: Terminal illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcohol, and Sexual content
theirgracegrace's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Spoiler
gaslighting and abuse by JustinGraphic: Sexual assault, Medical content, Confinement, Sexual harassment, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Cursing, Sexual content, Alcohol, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual violence, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Bullying, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Racism, Body shaming, Cancer, Fatphobia, Hate crime, Xenophobia, Physical abuse, Police brutality, and Violence
Minor: Death, Misogyny, Toxic friendship, Sexism, Child death, and Dementia
laheath's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Initially, the living arrangement seemed bizarre, but not only did they make it work, it made sense for them. There were a few secondary characters causing some tense scenes, as the book addresses serious issues such as emotional abuse, gaslighting, a loved one in prison, and hospice, but also several laugh out loud moments thanks to the supportive, and sometimes quirky, family and friends of the MC's.
Graphic: Emotional abuse and Gaslighting
Moderate: Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Stalking, and Cancer
Minor: Homophobia, Alcohol, and Cursing
infjkiki's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Gaslighting, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Stalking, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Cancer and Terminal illness
Minor: War
con26books's review against another edition
- 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
This book is everything I could have wanted and more. It is a must read. This book is perfection. I envy anyone who gets to read this for the first time.
The characters are perfect, they are so realistic and honest and human that when the book ends you feel like you've said goodbye to some friends. This book deals with difficult subjects so make sure you check the trigger warnings before you read this book.
5/5⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Graphic: Gaslighting, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, and Stalking
Moderate: Body shaming, Injury/injury detail, and Medical content
Minor: Panic attacks/disorders
thatfabchick's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Very good book. I look forward to reading more by this author. To be honest I would have given it a 5 star but the book started out slow and a bit confusing at 1st. Well to be honest I was going to DNF it.
Yet at the 40% mark was were it picked up and I could not get enough of the book. It was fast paced and I enjoyed the pov of both the MC.
Another issue that I found in this book was that there was a major stereotype on the MMC, in the book, the character is described as being brown skin, and I’m assuming that he is black or mixed race that includes black (in the TV show he is cast as a black man) and the MMC has a brother that is in jail(falsely accused) and he was raised by a single mother, who has a string of different boyfriend who are abusive. So he has mommy issues. ( this was said exactly in the book.) as a woman of color reading this book do you have to say it threw me off a bit. I was enjoying reading the story about the MMC and then the whole my brothers in jail threw me off and then the whole I have mommy issues threw me off as well. But in between that, this book is excellent well written I had a good time reading it it’s just those quick stereotypes which we really did not need. But what can we do.
This is a well written book, I love the diversity in the book it is funny and sweet and quite an enjoyable read. I think a lot of people will like it, but I also want to make aware that there are a few stereotypes in this book.
Other than that, this is a Good book I would recommend
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Stalking
Minor: Panic attacks/disorders and Toxic relationship
aj_langley's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Stalking, Panic attacks/disorders, Gaslighting, and Emotional abuse
Moderate: Terminal illness
Minor: Cancer and Death