Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

The Right Swipe by Alisha Rai

5 reviews

annahamburger's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Sexism, Sexual content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, Racism, Terminal illness, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Minor: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

kyeruhh's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful slow-paced

• 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

Started a bit slow but I’m glad I finished it! Very cute and loved the more serious topics covered. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Medical content, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Mental illness and Injury/Injury detail

stitchesandstationery's review against another edition

funny lighthearted 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

4.0

Rhi is the powerful, brilliant, and sexy founder of the popular dating app, Crush, and Samson is the ex-NFL player turned spokesperson for her rival company. They've hooked up once (thanks to her own app), and it left them both with a whole mix of emotions. Without knowing who the other is, they both attend a tech conference and end up meeting up for the first time since That Night. They're forced into closer proximity to one another as they decide to take a leap that will help both of their companies, and that goes, well, exactly how you'd expect it to when two people have known each other as intimately as they have.

I loved both of them. Rhi started as a boss babe who never slept with the same man twice (a trauma response to her last serious relationship) who was then able to balance her professional life and her focus on her work and her career with her relationships - with her family, her friends, and with Samson. Samson was multidimensional and powerful, and while I originally found myself wishing he hadn't been a hulking ex-linebacker and had been the mildly geeky owner of a rival company, the added element of CTE and the death of both his father and his uncle was surprising. It added a wonderful level of depth to Samson that made him even more loveable.

They diversity of the characters in this book should definitely be acknowledged - there is completely wonderful representation of different races, different sexualities (okay we could have seen more of this, but it was there), and different levels of mental wellness. It was fascinating and fun and steamy as hell.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Terminal illness, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

kylieqrada's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted sad 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

4.0

I liked this alot, but more as a contemporary with romance elements than as a straight romance. I liked our MCs together, but they didn't jump off the page for me like other romance pairings I've read lately. I loved Alisha Rai's writing, and her characterization is divine. Plus, the hard-hitting topics tackled (football pun) in this book are so well-done and insightful. I don't usually like a sports element in romance (she says as though she's some sort of romance connoisseur), but I loved the way CTE and mental illness were handled here. Will definitely be picking up more from Alisha Rai soon. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Terminal illness, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Death, Dementia, Grief, and Death of parent

peachmoni's review against another edition

emotional reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Dementia, and Death of parent

Minor: Chronic illness, Mental illness, Racism, Violence, and Alcohol