Reviews tagging 'Car accident'

If He Had Been with Me by Laura Nowlin

333 reviews

_b0ok_l0v3r's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

I WISH THERE WERENT TIARAS 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Grief, Bullying, Drug use, Cursing, Death, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Child death, Stalking, and Car accident

meghan1997's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Raw, nostalgic, heartfelt, and heartbreaking. I was completely enamoured and in love with this story and its characters.

I went into this with no prior knowledge of the book or its contents, and was instantly captured by the author's writing style. 

Reading this book for the first time (which came out when I was in high school) as an adult, had me deeply reflecting and looking back on my own coming of age years.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Death, and Car accident

Moderate: Suicide attempt

Minor: Sexual assault

mick_rt's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident

Moderate: Sexual content, Vomit, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Death, Eating disorder, Suicide attempt, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

Minor: Sexual assault

moonylovesstars's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective relaxing sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Im not okay. I will never recover.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Toxic friendship, Child death, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Death, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, Mental illness, Self harm, and Drug use

delaneylacerte4's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

• 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Bullying, and Death

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, and Suicide attempt

kaerinae's review against another edition

sad slow-paced

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

4.25

I think it was long for a good reason. I hated the ending in a good and bad way. It just left me empty. But reminding me the time we have in earth is too short to not keep our loved ones close and let them know we love them.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Death, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, and Car accident

Minor: Self harm

not all endings are happy endings and that’s just life

itsmecalib_'s review against another edition

3.25

Did we pick up a book already in my TBR or did we pick up a new book because #booktok told me to? …book Tok told me to.

I get why If He Had Been with Me by Laura Nowlin was hyped up.

This book is coming of age meets romance meets YA…but made it raw…and low key a little bleak? That isn’t BAD but it’s definitely not an uplifting book or an easy read.

What I Like:
* What a ROLLER COASTER. Respect.
* It started slow but by half way through I had a hard time putting it down.
* The teenager feels are real.
* We love a long term book. It covers like 7th grade to a year after high school graduation.
* You know the end right from the beginning. (but like end minus 15 pages)

What I Don’t Like:
* You know the end right from the beginning.
* The teenager happenings are…extreme. It’s like a less explicit Euphoria. I know these things happen, yes, but it’s not the experience of the majority.
* It’s longer than it needed to be.

Would I reread? No. Will I read the sequel? Yes.

Is it a personal fave? No. Am I glad I read it? Sure.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Car accident and Suicidal thoughts

malsam's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful sad slow-paced

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

4.25

The first 2/3 of this book were mediocre. The pace was slow. But, it was not too boring. Then the final 1/3 of the book changed everything. There were surprises and sadness and plot twists. I recommend this book, but if you get bored at first…please please finish it cause the ending is insane! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Car accident, and Death

Moderate: Suicide

libroandthings's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Car accident, Death of parent, Suicide, Eating disorder, and Panic attacks/disorders

trisjt's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Death, Suicide attempt, and Suicide

Minor: Self harm, Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, Rape, Eating disorder, Car accident, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Vomit