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Out of Love by Hazel Hayes

12 reviews

chireadsandchill's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Addiction, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, Animal cruelty, Adult/minor relationship, Physical abuse, Rape, Infidelity, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

lizaxwin's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

The concept of this book is so unique and intriguing. However, I found it a bit difficult to basically read the story from end to start rather than the other way around. I found myself thinking of reading it in the opposite direction if I should ever pick up this book again and I‘ll probably do that sometime.

This book deals with so many important topics and so many horrible people (all or at least some of which all of us have had or sadly will have in our lives sometime or another). Theo was a walking red flag basically, although a lot of his toxic behaviour nearly went undetected. This, imo, was one of the strength of the „upside-down“ storyline. You knew what to look out for.

I‘m still unsure if I find it infuriating that we never find out the protagonist‘s name or if I think it‘s a clever way of showing that every woman could be her.

All in all, a clever story with lots of depth, ma be a few pages too many and definitely a book which practically screams to be read at least two or three times to be grasped in its entirety.

(Definitely check trigger warnings for this one)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Rape

iloivar's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Miscarriage

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Alcoholism, and Mental illness

Minor: Homophobia, Grief, Sexual assault, Cursing, Abandonment, Vomit, Panic attacks/disorders, Gaslighting, Body shaming, Lesbophobia, Death, Cancer, and Sexual content

echokore's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Grief, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, and Abandonment

Moderate: Biphobia, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Child abuse, Lesbophobia, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Colonisation, Death of parent, Incest, Sexual content, and Vomit

jadyn_renee62's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Pregnancy, and Child abuse

Moderate: Drug abuse, Misogyny, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Miscarriage, Suicide attempt, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Gaslighting, Pedophilia, and Racial slurs

Minor: Animal death and Abortion

at806's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Addiction, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Gaslighting, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Alcohol, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Blood, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Eating disorder, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Sexual violence, Vomit, Sexual assault, Drug abuse, Racism, and Racial slurs

jessicarose__'s review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Miscarriage

absolute_bookery's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.5

This book felt so bloody close to home, I have never empathised with a narrator as much as I did with this one. Couldn't put it down I just loved it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Panic attacks/disorders, Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Alcoholism

skudiklier's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective 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? Yes

5.0

This book was beautiful and heartbreaking and so emotionally true. I wondered how it would pull off taking you through a relationship backwards, from messy breakup to romantic meeting, but wow Hazel Hayes did it so well. After finishing it I went back and reread the first chapter just to feel it all over again, and notice all the little things I now had so much more context for. Out of Love is all bittersweet nostalgia and new perspectives, and I loved it so much. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Miscarriage, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Misogyny, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, and Mental illness

Moderate: Eating disorder, Lesbophobia, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Xenophobia, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Death, Biphobia, Grief, Gaslighting, Alcoholism, Vomit, Violence, Sexism, Pregnancy, and Car accident

Minor: Cancer, Medical content, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Racism, War, Child abuse, Suicide, Drug abuse, and Abortion

sleepylavender's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage

Minor: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, and Eating disorder