Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Peccati d'inverno by Lisa Kleypas

17 reviews

kld8338's review against another edition

4.5

lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse

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

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

annick's review against another edition

2.5

adventurous lighthearted tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Meh. So many fans of jelypas seem to love this pairing of Evie Jenner and Sebastian. I didn’t really get into their romance. I got bored with the melodramatic side stories of the casino and stalker and Evie’s friends. I don’t know if I will bother with others from The wallflowers. But at least I can return to the Ravenels and see the 1880s St Vincents. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual content, Violence

Minor: Misogyny, Sexism, Death of parent

eeyores_flowers's review against another edition

3.75

emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Minor: Gore, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Medical content

samchase112's review against another edition

3.5

emotional 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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Solid early 2000s historical romance, complete with pretty much everything that entails — super spicy scenes, lots of "male virility," a learns-to-be-strong female character, sexist stereotypes, and random danger. Also, for some reason, Sebastian's backstory was completely left out of the book; I guess we're supposed to have read the previous books? That doesn't cut it for me, because it means his character went basically unexplored.

It was lots of fun, I must admit, and kept me turning the pages. But despite everyone saying this is Kleypas's best, I think I've learned to stick to contemporary historical fiction, thank you. It's just a bit less…sexist :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Sexism, Sexual content, Medical content

Moderate: Physical abuse, Violence, Blood

Minor: Racism

annahamburger's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful lighthearted 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Racism, Kidnapping, Abandonment, Alcohol, Classism

Minor: Confinement, Fatphobia, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Xenophobia, Dementia, Stalking, Pregnancy

avacyn731's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Mental illness

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