Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Magnolia Parks by Jessa Hastings

82 reviews

donari's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Infidelity and Alcohol

Minor: Child death, Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexual content

iambookmad's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

This was a fun read, especially while I wasn’t in a real reading mood. The characters are all pretty much horrible humans but it scratched the itch that gossip girl left. Will still continue the series though. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

chickpeawagon's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

I love rich people drama. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Alcohol

Moderate: Sexual content

dasachelley's review against another edition

emotional 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug use, Infidelity, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Alcohol

jennh96's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny lighthearted sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Grief, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

kajasversion's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.75

Genuinely one of the most frustrating books I’ve ever read. I hated the characters so much, they kept doing the same fucked up shit and they learned nothing, but somehow it had me hooked and i read almost the whole thing in one sitting. The plot twist at the end was completely unexpected and I hope for Magnolia’s sake that she picks Tom because he is the better man in every sense of the word. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Eating disorder and Panic attacks/disorders

moonylovesstars's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

3.0

I honestly couldn’t tell you how I feel. It was entertaining. But I’m supposed to root for BJ after all that? How is he going to redeem himself EVER. I don’t know what makes the toxic relationships in this book even worse to me than like every other one. Maybe because to me those ones are less realistic than this one to me. Like granted this isn’t top tier realistic but it’s not a stalker romance or a mafia boss romance that just seems way over my head to believe for even a second it could happen in real life but with this book I can see it happening in real life. It’s so messy. It’s like the Kardashians mixed with the bachelorette mixed with tons of cheating and drugs. I mean like I enjoyed my time but at the same time I wouldn’t count this as a romance. It has romance aspects I guess but I see no romantic stuff anywhere. I just see messy drama. 😭🙏

I do kind of felt like it got a bit repetitive. He cheats, she gets mad, goes to whoever, Christian, Julian, Tom. Whatever. Goes back to him. Repeat. At least 3 times in this book if we are including the time where he cheated when they were first together. 

I just feel like would’ve enjoyed this more if it was marketed to me as a drama tv show and not a romance novel because I went into it with the wrong expectations as well as also knowing it’d be toxic. But I was expecting like Twisted series level toxic, not cheating left, right, center, everyone loves magnolia, repetitive breaking it off, getting back together, yelling at each other and sobbing, then kissing the next few chapters later. Like if I went into it expecting that I think I would’ve ate it up. But when I was expecting more romance than what this is, it disappoints a bit. But I think I’ll continue the series just keeping it in mind that it’s basically a drama tv show and pick it up when I’m in the mood for exactly that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Addiction, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Alcohol

annamay1021's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Sexual content and Suicidal thoughts

ableinchrist14's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-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

4.0

Rating: 4⭐

Review: A lot of drama and indecision sums up the first book in this series. It's got a ton of intrigue and moving parts to it, that's bound to catch and hold your attention in certain parts. It did lose my attention in certain parts and that's why it lost a star for me personally. I did enjoy it. That ending was lightning in a bottle and totally worth the wait. I highly recommend reading this book and series so far!

Warning: There's sexual content that I highly recommend skipping over as you read this, as I myself did.
There's definitely use of foul language throughout the book so if you can't handle that, don't read it.

Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

kalefactory's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• 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

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

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Sexual content, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Classism

Minor: Child death