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wanderlust_romance's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.25
Two Rogues had much the same tenderness and friendship as We Could Be So Good. The audiobook also had the same narrator for both books, and I liked this book's narrator performance only slightly more. There was very little distinction between MMC character voices, which occasionally made it difficult to determine who was speaking. That's my only hang up.
Moderate: Chronic illness, Confinement, Drug abuse, Sexual content, and Medical content
Minor: Drug use, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail
writewithapendragon's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Moderate: Addiction, Chronic illness, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, and Classism
Minor: Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Outing, and Classism
A lot of the content warnings are genre-typical and/or occur off the page. Sexual content gets explicit but never lasts more than a couple pages.johns6ka's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Addiction, Chronic illness, Mental illness, and Medical content
Moderate: Ableism, Drug use, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Torture, and Death of parent
Minor: Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Rape, Grief, and Classism
mariep97's review against another edition
4.5
Moderate: Medical content
Minor: Child abuse, Sexual violence, and Torture
wilybooklover's review
5.0
Graphic: Chronic illness, Sexual content, and Medical content
Moderate: Addiction, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Medical trauma, and Classism
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Homophobia, Sexual violence, Torture, and Death of parent
saukittome's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
3.0
Moderate: Chronic illness, Mental illness, and Medical content
kieranlit's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Chronic illness
Moderate: Medical content
Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Child abuse
breadbees'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: Chronic illness, Homophobia, Sexual content, Medical content, and Classism
Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Confinement, Terminal illness, Torture, Blood, Death of parent, and Abandonment
wardenred'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
4.0
They were pressed together, safe and alone in the moonlight, neither of them particularly well but both were something like happy and it felt like a miracle.
The Seducing the Sedgwicks series has been on my radar for a while now, and I was honestly planning to read it in order. But then a friend sang praises to this particular book and assured me it could be read as a standalone, and words such as "friends to lovers," "demisexual protagonist," "chronic illness" and "only one bed in a remote countryside cottage" were slung around, and—well. I simply couldn't resist.
Looking back, I think "can be read as a standalone" is a bit of an overstatement. I can't say I felt particularly lost at any stage of the novel, but I do think I would have benefited from being better acquainted with the entire cast. Nevertheless, I enjoyed this gentle story a lot. I mean, I wanted to shake both characters quite often because I needed them to get out of their heads and start actually tackling their problems instead of constantly blowing them out of proportion (as if those problems weren't serious enough to start with). But I could also see each guy's reasoning for acting this way. This is a story ripe with dramatic misunderstandings that look totally reasonable when you're locked in a character's viewpoint, and I'm very much here for that.
I do feel like the subject of Martin's tuberculosis deserved a bit more discussion between him and WIll (isn't it contagious?). On the other hand, this two have known each other for ages and it's mentioned that Will is familiar with the disease from taking care of his mother. So perhaps it makes sense for some things to be left unspoken between them. All in all, it was awesome to see a chronically ill character get his HEA, as well as not to have him be reduced to his sickness. Consumption is just one of the things Martin deals with, and his personality isn't shaped by it. The same can be said about Will and his PTSD. That gets a yay from me.
I also need to add that I loved so many of the supporting characters. I definitely need to check out the first two books of the series sooner rather than later; perhaps I'll get to know them better! I especially loved Martin's aunt with her matter-of-fact attitude and off-handish kindness.
Graphic: Chronic illness and Medical content
Moderate: Violence
samanatha's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Pedophilia
Minor: Addiction, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, and Medical content