Reviews tagging 'Rape'

To Sir Phillip, With Love by Julia Quinn

30 reviews

allison87's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

I feel like if Netflix Eloise read this book she would promptly throw it into the fire and scream. 

Phillip is a piece of work. Anger issues, SA of his late wife while she was suffering from post pardom depression, absent fathering, asking for a wife for the express purpose of getting a homemaker/nanny/warm body but withheld that fact for an entire year of courting. 

Once they are together and married, consent is hazy. He's not interested in her as a person but as a body. To the point where he hardly lets her speak/avoids her all day prior to bed time. (When Eloise has a major concern about the children's care, instead of pause his pursuit of her body to listen to her, he throws a tantrum and leaves.) So, yeah, it's extremely romantic? 

I get that these were issues that were/still are common. But that doesn't make it conducive to a love story. It's more horror than anything. Even if this were written in the 1800s it would still come off extremely bleak and hardly romantic. 

Shondaland has a ton of work ahead to turn this story into anything good. Personally I would scrap most of it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child abuse, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Suicide

annahamburger's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Moderate: Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, and Grief

Minor: Ableism, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

lct's review against another edition

emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Suicide

Moderate: Rape and Suicide attempt

Minor: Child abuse and Death of parent

nebbular's review against another edition

lighthearted slow-paced

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

2.75

they were boooooring no offense to them !!

abcg trying to kill phillip was incredible tho kisses to them

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Mental illness and Rape

haleysversion's review against another edition

funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Classism

cleotheo's review against another edition

emotional tense 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

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Alcohol

safa9706's review against another edition

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

1.0

[Trigger Warnings for this book cause I’ve not seen anyone put them: r*pe, SA, mentions previous child abuse]

Just Julia Quinn doing what Julia Quinn does best: romanticising men with anger issues who disregard consent and seem to think they deserve a medal for the few times they don’t “force themselves” onto their love interests (i.e. there are times when they actually do force themselves on women FYI Julia Quinn that’s literally r*pe)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Child abuse

charliegman's review

this book ruined my life
I hate Sir Philip so very badly

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

laurenry5771's review against another edition

dark lighthearted sad 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

Moderate: Child abuse and Rape

erikalv97's review against another edition

fast-paced

3.0

I really didn’t like the romance in this book, nor did I like the love interest Sir Phillip, the only reason I’m giving this book 3 stars is because of the rest of the Bridgertons made a brief appearance, also, I really liked Oliver and Amanda 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Alcohol