Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

Breakaway by Grace Reilly

6 reviews

readwithria's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted medium-paced

• 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? It's complicated

3.0

Breakaway was cute, and sweet, and spicy, but it wasn’t quite what I was hoping for.

First of all, this book is SO LONG! I’m not usually one to say that a book could have been shorter, but I think this one could have. There are so many spicy scenes, and they don’t all do things for the characters or the story. Some of them definitely could have been cut, or montaged, and nothing would have been amiss. Even with how long it was though, it felt like it wrapped up too quickly. I wanted more resolution, and a more meaningful epilogue.

Now that that’s out of the way, it wasn’t a bad book. I liked Penny and Cooper, and their relationship. I also really liked the therapy rep, and think it was fine quite well. 

Overall I think this book was cute, but not well constructed. A good palette cleanse, but nothing exceptional. 3 stars

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Cursing

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Mental illness

Minor: Alcoholism, Death of parent, Alcohol, Blood, Sexual assault, and Violence

lizcole18's review against another edition

emotional hopeful lighthearted sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Alcoholism, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Drug abuse, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, and Cursing

avidreaderandgeekgirl's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted 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? It's complicated

4.5

    Cooper, the college hockey player who's never had a serious relationship, and Penny, whose only serious boyfriend betrayed her. Hook-up and then they try to work on Penny's sexual to-do list to deal with her past trauma. But as they work through the list, they both start to catch serious feelings for one another.
     This book was quite steamy! Just the way I like romance, but also dealt with past trauma and mental health. It was a great balance of serious, funny, and spicy! Though a bit on the sad side at times for a college romance.
    Overall, an excellent book.

Narrator(s) Ratings: 5 stars
   Both narrators did an amazing job. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Mental illness, Sexual harassment, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexual content

Moderate: Grief, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Violence, Cursing, Blood, Bullying, Sexual assault, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Vomit, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual assault, Alcoholism, Addiction, Car accident, Death of parent, Body shaming, Cancer, and Drug abuse

The toxic relationship, emotional abuse, and gaslighting are not in the main romantic relationship but with some of the MC's family members.

jenlindeman's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Addiction, Car accident, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

emmysforeverbooked's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny medium-paced

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

3.5

I wish I could form thoughts on this book rn and idk if it's because it's 3 am or the fact that it's taken me so long to read this book but I genuinely don't remember anything rn aside from hockey and sex 💀

What I can tell you is that I LOVE this couple. I absolutely loved Penny, maybe even more than I liked Bex from book #1. Cooper is probably my favorite Callahan brother out of the two I've read so far but maybe Seb will take the crown, who knows lol.

But in all seriousness, I think I would've rated this higher if I hadn't reached a point in the book where I was tired of reading the smut 💀 HOWEVER, i am on the asexual spectrum so reading too much smut at one time can get overwhelming for me. Overall, I did really like this book, even if I'm having a hard time with thoughts rn.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Cursing, and Sexual content

Moderate: Addiction, Blood, Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual assault

Minor: Car accident

whichdirection's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted 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

Great balance of plot to spice; fantastically healthy relationship representation

Lots of spice! These two are horny!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, and Death of parent

Minor: Car accident, Alcoholism, and Addiction

Even though Penny doesn’t consider what happened with Preston SA, I definitely do so I have tagged it accordingly. I’m not sure what else

being filmed without your consent

would qualify as so…