Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Peccati d'inverno by Lisa Kleypas

18 reviews

bookedupchick's review against another edition

4.0

challenging emotional hopeful fast-paced

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4⭐️ | Evie is desperate to escape her toxic family and Sebastian needs a wife with money (since his father spent everything )💰 and low and behold they can help each other. 

📜 Historical Romance
💍 Marriage Of Convenience 
🌶️ 3/5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Violence, Medical content, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse

haley49's review against another edition

4.75

emotional relaxing 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: Yes

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I am ignoring the events of the previous book in the series for this review. That Sebastian is irredeemable. Otherwise, this book is perfection and I take no criticism because of the sheer joy this brought me. All the feels were amazing and I instantly searched for spotify playlists. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexism, Terminal illness

Minor: Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Pregnancy

medicinewoman's review against another edition

4.0

emotional funny lighthearted reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Medical content, Death of parent

Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, Emotional abuse

Minor: Alcoholism, Physical abuse, Torture

buttermellow's review against another edition

4.0

emotional hopeful relaxing fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body shaming, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Death of parent

danicam's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail

merlinandrose's review against another edition

5.0

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

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Content Warnings

Minor: Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood

mattiedancer's review against another edition

2.75

hopeful lighthearted

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Writing: 3⭐️/5 

The writing is serviceable in this novel, slipping towards well-written at a few intervals. The most hard-to-read portions were ones that I assume tied the series together. While I understand that I started with the third in the series, the forced description of our MC as a “wallflower” and always a “wallflower” felt hopelessly strained and needless: we understand her character at this point and it only serves to connect the series, meaning it read as poor writing. Besides that, much of the writing slid towards the classic pitfall: telling and not showing. Kleypas hammers certain points over and over again to the point of annoyance, making several chapters hard to read.

Characters: 2.75⭐️/5

I want to love the characters more than I do. Evie has the potential as the shy heroine, but her development is offset by her inconsistent character. Same with Sebastian. I would have loved to see Sebastian show consistency in his character, but he quickly loses his “villain” archetype to become the rich noble who just happens to know how to fight. It felt so sudden that I wanted to understand then what his history really was. The side characters also fell subsequently short of feeling real.

Plot: 2.75⭐️/5 

The marriage of convenience plot starts strong and instantly beocmes strained. While I love the bad boy turns to caring lover trope as much as anyone else, Sebastian’s motives make as little sense as his inconsistent character. While he looks to marry our heroine to settle debts, he immediately reveals that he’s not much of an overspender, immediately squashing his whole reason for marrying Evie in the first place. Honestly, it would be more believable that he had been secretly pining after her for years, even in the interest of a one-night stand. The flurry of action at the beginning also created a distinct lull in the middle and end of the novel. And, the wrapping up of the attempted-murder plot came quickly, too much so, leaving us with no time to really feel like Evie might have ever been in danger. 

Oh, also Evie’s dad died and she moves on very, very fast, which is maybe one of the more annoying parts of the plot. 

However, it’s fun.

Who Should Read This Book? 

• Someone looking for a bodice-ripping romance novel

Content Warnings? 

• Misogyny, sexism, sexual assault, sexual content, rape, death of a parent, death, murder, blood, injury, medical content, terminal illness, 

Post-Reading Rating:  3.75⭐️/5

It was fun, if not well-written.

Final Rating: 2.75⭐️/5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Minor: Racial slurs

smuttymcbookface's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Blood, Death of parent

Moderate: Child abuse, Terminal illness, Violence

Minor: Infidelity, Rape, Pregnancy

what_karla_reads's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Terminal illness, Violence, Death of parent

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Grief, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

fritopie's review against another edition

3.75

emotional funny hopeful slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Terminal illness, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Violence, Pregnancy