Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

The Pucking Wrong Number by C.R. Jane

14 reviews

bookreaderblair's review

challenging dark emotional 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Stalking, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Grief

darbarbz's review

challenging dark medium-paced

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

2.0

That was insane

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, and Drug use

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders

megs846's review

dark emotional tense

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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Stalking, Toxic relationship, Death, Gaslighting, Sexual content, Abandonment, Violence, Death of parent, and Grief

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders and Kidnapping

kristanjenkins's review

challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• 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: Death of parent, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Grief, Toxic relationship, Stalking, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Abandonment, Child abuse, Addiction, Drug use, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Sexual harassment

ronnieex's review

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Sexual content, and Abandonment

Moderate: Grief and Toxic relationship

Minor: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Sexual harassment

nyx_999's review

3.75

I have mixed feelings about the end. 
Honestly through out the whole book I didn't have much of a problem about his behavior but towards the end where he used drugs to sedate her, used cuffs so she couldn't leave, watching her throughout cameras and deliberately acting sweeter so she would get soft and forgive him gave major Stockholm and also felt reversed. 
He was a bit crazy from the start so his behavior towards the end just gave me the chills. He acted like a psychopath and not the sexy kind.
I have the feeling if things went reversed like from obsessiv, creepy, crazy, sweet to sweet sexy, crazy and possessive it wouldn't have gave me the ick in the last 4 chapters.
Besides that it was a good read.

Hockey romance ✔️ 
Poor meets rich ✔️ 
Soul mates ✔️
Family  drama ✔️ 
Stalking ✔️ 
"Forced proximity" ✔️ 
Obsessive/ possessive mmc ✔️ 
Virgin fmc ✔️ 
Me or no one else ✔️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use and Sexual content

Moderate: Violence, Confinement, and Stalking

Minor: Abandonment

megatza's review

dark emotional fast-paced

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

2.0

Even knowing the CWs for this book, I wasn't totally prepared for *how* dark it got. Stalkers are not my jam, the hockey itself was mediocre, the romance had nothing for me. The author did give the FMC (who was *barely 18*) some personal agency, and there was recognition that she didn't totally feel great falling in love with a hockey player who basically held her captive...so it gets 2⭐️ and not 1⭐️. But oof this book was NOT for me.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Addiction and Abandonment

Minor: Vomit

CWs are all listed at the beginning of the book and are very helpful!

nlapean's review

dark emotional sad medium-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

3.75

This book is a walking red flag, but I loved it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Abandonment, Stalking, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Grief, Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, Confinement, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Cursing, Alcoholism, Drug use, Death of parent, and Addiction

amanda_reads13's review

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

Monroe is starting over in a new city when she gets a text from a wrong number. That text happens to be from Lincoln, the NHL golden boy. He instantly becomes obsessed with her and will stop at nothing to make her his. 

Lincoln deals with his pain by channelling his energy into hockey and obsessing over Monroe. Hockey by day, stalking and manipulating Monroe by night. 

Through most of her life, Monroe deals with her pain by working hard to overcome her terrible situation. Once she becomes the object of Lincoln's obsession, she tries to fight his hold on her and tries to remain independent, but eventually realizes there is no point. After everything this psychopath has done, he manages to manipulate her into becoming solely dependent on him. 

Both Lincoln and Monroe have endured horrific childhoods, I think they need therapy more than anything else. 

Tropes: touch her/you die, toxic, obsessed, opposites attract, dark, instalust

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Child abuse, Grief, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Stalking, Sexual harassment, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Panic attacks/disorders, and Confinement

stuffandwhatnot's review

dark

3.5

Has a serious tone/plot dissonance. It's kind of like those recut movie trailers, where they make The Shining sound like a rom-com or Mrs Doubtfire like a horror movie. This is an obsessed/stalker dark romance with a rom-com tone. And it's a boiled frog stalker. Like, he starts out doing suspicious but still within the rom-com realm of possibility stuff, like googling her and getting a background check run, then progresses to driving by her place, then breaking in while she sleeps, Edward Cullen-style. 

By the end after

he's gotten her evicted, fired, and totally dependent upon him and she learns this and tries to leave, he drugs and chains her in his apartment (after letting the reader know that he's got a tracking device in her birth control implant)

I was like, well, I should've expected that to happen. At that point, if I'd learned

he actually DID kill his brother, I don't think I would've been that surprised.

But it still works because his over the top obsessiveness fits perfectly with her abandonment issues. I mean, these people desperately need therapy, but they got a HEA that works for both of them, I guess.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment and Stalking

Moderate: Child abuse and Grief