Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid

123 reviews

drjoannehill's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

Bridges Book Club

If the wife/girlfriend of Tom Hanks' character in 'Castaway' told her story, this is kind of it.

Rating is mainly that this is not my sort of book really. It's a very 'tell not show' sort of book - lots of dialogue and internal monologue unpacking all the ins and outs of the feelings that the characters have. I didn't feel like I saw enough of the two men to understand Emma's feelings for them, especially Jesse, who turned into a jerk later in the book and CW

actually I was worried he was going to get violent.

The only thing holding me in the book was, which one is she going to choose? Kind of a flimsy reason to read a story.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Infidelity and Suicidal thoughts

passionatereader78's review against another edition

emotional hopeful fast-paced

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

4.5

This book is beautifully heartbreaking and full of hope. I enjoyed every minute. Well written.  Great characters! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Grief

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Pregnancy and Injury/Injury detail

hmatt's review against another edition

emotional fast-paced

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

2.5

I've been getting around to more of my "author completionism" reads this year. I read Maybe in another life near when it was released, but hadn't yet dipped into the rest of TJR's romance backlist until now. This one is, well, a bit too messy for me.

I'd say the main character is morally pretty grey, but this doesn't seem to be acknowledged with as much weight as I think it deserves.

She has a lot of sex with her ex(?)-husband, and that isn't really discussed as like, a pain point that might possibly interfere with her current relationship.

On the whole, I can tell it's less sophisticated writing than the author's newer work, and I think it's really interesting to compare her earlier writing in a very different genre to the (quite frankly) masterpieces she's been putting out more recently.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infidelity, Sexual content, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

mrsalexisrjones's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

The worst kind of love triangle.. your long lost husband and your new fiancé. Emma truly loves both of them but she has to pick not only who she wants to be with but who she wants to be.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Alcohol

lindcherry's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infidelity, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

skilb's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

karinreadsalot's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

This book was heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time. Mild easy plot

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicidal thoughts, and Grief

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail

kashby's review against another edition

emotional fast-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.0

love this idea and how it plays out. not obsessed with the execution. it reads like Normal People in how there’s little stories for each time period to show how the characters feel about each other but since that writing style is purposely fleeting i felt like it lacked depth for the premise. i also wish she saw olive more after high school.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content and Grief

Minor: Cancer, Death, Medical content, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

khowick24's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

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

3.75

Not my favorite TJR book but it was good. I could tell who she was going to pick based on how the author wrote. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Injury/Injury detail

jayybear's review against another edition

emotional

• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Death and Injury/Injury detail