Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

A Holly Jolly Ever After by Julie Murphy, Sierra Simone

10 reviews

callidoralblack's review

emotional lighthearted

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Medical content, Alcohol, Cursing, and Pregnancy

Minor: Blood, Chronic illness, Miscarriage, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Vomit, and Infertility

jourdanicus's review against another edition

hopeful lighthearted fast-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? It's complicated

4.0

5/5 on the 🌶️ scale 🫣

Main complaint: the

ineffective condom use

from a male main character who was supposedly

very sexually experienced

? Like hello? Also, don't they know that

ejaculation onto the vulva technically CAN cause pregnancy too?

That seemed a bit uneducated. And the whole

pregnancy

as plot twist came a little later in the plot than I'd have liked, making the plot drag a little in the middle third.

But this book hit enough favorite points for me to stay invested: characters who are kind to one another, light humor, slightly unconventional romance, and casual queer inclusivity. I would definitely recommend to anyone who read and liked A Merry Little Meet Cute. Would not recommend to anyone who is aggressively

childfree

or does not find

having a baby

to be romantic at all.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy and Sexual content

Moderate: Medical content, Blood, Emotional abuse, and Miscarriage

Minor: Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Infertility, and Infidelity

meganlafo's review

funny hopeful 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Vomit, Ableism, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Pregnancy, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Infertility, Infidelity, Abortion, and Body shaming

lindsayerin's review

emotional lighthearted relaxing tense 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail

rachminick's review

funny hopeful inspiring 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy and Sexual content

Moderate: Miscarriage and Infertility

Minor: Body shaming, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, and Toxic relationship

cover2covertx's review

emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

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

2.5

I think the authors wanted to put too many themes and plots into one story arc. It just made things kind of messy in the second half. Also, no trigger warnings was a bad move for this one especially.

And miscarriage should never be used as a casual plot device and the way it was handled absolutely felt like that

I’ll definitely be reading the third in the series whenever it comes out but this book didn’t fit with the vibe of the Christmas Notch books all because of that second half. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Infertility, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Misogyny, Pregnancy, Fatphobia, Miscarriage, Sexism, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Vomit

Religious trauma Purity culture

purplepenning's review

emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

3.25

There are no good variables to work with when the answer to the equation is other peoples' idea of perfection.

Another one where I liked the previous book in the series, liked the main and side characters, liked much of what was being addressed, but still didn't love the story or execution. Le sigh.

There's no age when people stop learning about their bodies.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Ableism, Cursing, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Religious bigotry, Chronic illness, Medical content, Toxic relationship, Blood, and Vomit

Minor: Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Misogyny, and Sexism

A note about the sexual content: features a sexual awakening and admirably frank language and scenes of exploration as a character deprograms from the learned shame and inhibitions of purity culture Other content notes: in addition to the unplanned pregnancy trope, there's a

miscarriage scare

that opens the door for

toxic religious parents

to try to regain a foothold in a main characters life

sariereads's review

emotional funny 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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Pregnancy and Fatphobia

Minor: Medical content, Misogyny, Emotional abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

annahamburger's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Chronic illness, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Blood, Cursing, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Gaslighting, Xenophobia, Miscarriage, Religious bigotry, Alcohol, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Ableism, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Infertility, Infidelity, Biphobia, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Eating disorder

uranaishi's review

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective fast-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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing and Sexual content

Moderate: Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Infertility, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

Minor: Abandonment, Alcohol, Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Classism, Confinement, Drug use, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, and Violence