Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

Luna and the Lie by Mariana Zapata

6 reviews

siobhankeira's review

dark emotional hopeful slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, and Child abuse

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Alcohol, Violence, Bullying, Cursing, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Dementia, Gaslighting, Pregnancy, Sexism, Death, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Car accident

teardropsonmypaperback's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny reflective slow-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gun violence, Abandonment, Child abuse, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

amy_sutt's review

dark emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Death of parent, and Child abuse

Minor: Addiction, Toxic relationship, Drug use, Physical abuse, and Violence

Most of the triggers are related to the FMC’s upbringing and some in the behavior of the oldest sister (next oldest to FMC). Occurs mostly off page

baylakressi's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful mysterious slow-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

4.0

Man, the way my eyes bug out of my head when Mariana slips in a “baby girl” half way (or more) through the book. Gets me every time.

I really liked this one! This has a lot of god tropes: grumpy x sunshine, workplace romance, enemies to friends to lovers, touch her and you die, age gap. The list goes on. Slow burn though which isn’t my favorite, but only Mariana could make me read a ~500+ page book where I wait until about 90% in for them to bang. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse and Child abuse

Minor: Physical abuse, Abandonment, Death of parent, Addiction, Drug use, Car accident, and Alcoholism

kam_be's review

lighthearted relaxing slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, and Child abuse

Moderate: Violence, Car accident, and Death

Minor: Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Drug abuse, Addiction, and Gun violence

thefatpaperback's review

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted tense medium-paced

3.5

Not my favorite Zapata read—but I still enjoyed it for sure. I had trouble putting it down like I do other Zapata reads, but it really didn’t feel like a lot happened in this 600+ page book. It burned a bit too slow for me this time. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Car accident, Death of parent, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, and Violence