Reviews tagging 'Bullying'

Bride by Ali Hazelwood

32 reviews

murve's review against another edition

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Sexual content

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Confinement, Murder, Bullying, Pregnancy, Kidnapping, Violence, Infertility, Car accident, and Blood

ladykatka's review

adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.0

For supposedly being a spicy and sexy book, nothing actually spicy or sexy happened until over halfway through. And not only that, there were only two real sex scenes so and the hottest part of the book was when?

isery was feeding off of Lowe

how that was spicy and sexy and a turn on more than the sex scenes is a little disappointing.

Also, it seems like vampires will orgasm for literally any reason, I was almost to the point of of a stiff breeze blew too hard past her, she was going to have an orgasm. 

The other thing I learned is that apparently Weres like to stop mid passion to have a conversation which really kind of takes me out of it.

Also her inner monologue kept saying she wanted to punch someone so I kept waiting for her to actually punch someone. Fact that she never punched anybody is a little bit of a letdown. 

Overall, this was an easy read but I wouldn't really call it all that spicy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Blood, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Violence and Kidnapping

waldtochter's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Blood, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Kidnapping, Bullying, Body shaming, Child abuse, Death of parent, and War

wellreadandhalfdead's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful 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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Abandonment, and Sexual content

Moderate: Bullying

sammymilfort's review

adventurous funny hopeful medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Kidnapping, Child death, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, and Confinement

torturedreadersdept's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Kidnapping, Dysphoria, Infertility, Confinement, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, Blood, Grief, Murder, Toxic relationship, Drug abuse, Violence, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Bullying, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, and Sexual content

Minor: Car accident

mzquirk's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful tense medium-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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Sexual content, Forced institutionalization, and Cursing

Moderate: Bullying, Grief, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Death of parent, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, and Confinement

Minor: Child death, War, Torture, and Murder

juliesleseecke's review

emotional funny lighthearted mysterious fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Sexual content, and Bullying

zombiezami's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Stalking, Outing, Hate crime, Body horror, Kidnapping, Violence, Child abuse, Sexual content, and Medical content

Moderate: Self harm, Infertility, Grief, Cursing, Bullying, Vomit, and Death of parent

Minor: Alcohol, Pregnancy, Infidelity, War, and Car accident

doahdancer's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

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

4.25

This was a great, easy read. If you're looking to try a paranormal/shifter romance, but want to dip your feet without jumping in, this is the perfect choice. That said, if you're a longtime paranormal/shifter reader, this might be too contemporary to entertain.

The story worked for me. I have the context of having read some paranormal/shifter books (Patricia Briggs, one example), but wouldn't describe myself as well read in the genre. 

The only thing I wanted that I didn't get was more tension between the couple. The author chose to have the MMC stay away from the FMC for a significant amount of time after they get married, but the mystery doesn't start to really unfold until much later. This lull where the FMC is mostly exploring the new culture she's been dropped into created tension in the sense that I was waiting to see when the thread would start pulling, but the story itself was very day to day, contemporary interactions.

All in all, I really enjoyed it and once the mystery got rolling I was truly invested. Misery is a delightful, snarky character who is astute but not perfect. She's been hurt, but she's not toxic.

This standalone makes my list of fabulous pallet cleansers.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Bullying, Toxic relationship, and Sexual content