Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Magnolia Parks: Into the Dark by Jessa Hastings

10 reviews

kayinae's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense

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

4.25

I hope I never have to face the trauma that magnolia went through. Truly I would not be able to live through losing my sister.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Child death, Chronic illness, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Death, Gun violence, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Car accident, and Emotional abuse

klmreads's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Grief

Moderate: Eating disorder and Abandonment

mooncraftbujo's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Abandonment, Addiction, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Cursing, Eating disorder, Grief, Alcohol, Death, Infidelity, and Classism

Minor: Pregnancy, Miscarriage, and Violence

midnightrose_reads's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted sad tense 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

4.0

Magnolia Parks: Into the Dark is the emotional conclusion to B.J. and Magnolia’s story. I loved this book, but with that being said, this wasn’t a five star read like the other books in the series for me. I felt like the other books in this series flowed much better due, in part, that they weren’t as long as this book is. It’s tricky when your contemporary is over 500 pages to keep the flow of the book snappy and dynamic. I love long epic fantasy novels, but with contemporaries I tend to prefer trimly edited books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Abandonment, Car accident, and Miscarriage

Minor: Rape

brittonmc1221's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Death, Mental illness, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, and Grief

bookish_meli's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Eating disorder

Moderate: Abandonment

ashleylawrence's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful 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

5.0

this was a wonderful ending to this love story. i love the consistent theme of how many loves do you get in a lifetime and how that is answered (?) in this book. the character development in this book over all the others is exquisite and i love that they take the journey together as they do everything.

i did miss Bridget but I'm glad she made so many appearances. the ending with the wedding and mags getting pregnant was actually perfect and one of the rare times i enjoyed a pregnancy trope.

the growth, grief, and love in this book was so well displayed i can see how people are saying this is 200-300 too long but simply i disagree and loved every minute of it. literally sobbed in chapter 2 (sad) and the end (happy).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, and Miscarriage

Minor: Drug use and Rape

britwert's review against another edition

emotional hopeful fast-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? It's complicated

4.0

Love love love. A little different from the rest of the series but if you’ve made it this far and feel with the characters, it’s completely worth it. 
Fantastic character development through so many emotions surrounding grief  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Grief

Moderate: Abandonment and Death

hollymileham's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

5.0

"loving you is the thing i grab first when the house is on fire, and the house has been on fire before.... and it might catch on fire again. I really hope not, but if it does - how much I love you will forever and ever be the first thing I reach for"

wow wow wow. i have been so excited for this book and had such high hopes and it blew them out of the park. this was so different to the other books about magnolia & bj but yet felt like coming home at the same time. felt magnolias story in this so deeply though it was difficult to read at times it feels so necessary and right that i have read it. how grief is shown and written in this book is so amazing to me. i've loved all of the books in this series so so much but something about this one has just resonated so deeply with me especially the second half which i've just read all in one sitting. i will miss magnolia and bj so much and speaking of the little bits of info i've got about julian, daisy and christian have me duing for the next daisy haites book so bad give it to me now

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Eating disorder, and Death

Moderate: Abandonment, Sexual assault, and Body shaming

Minor: Rape

yasmineyacut's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Eating disorder, Abandonment, Miscarriage, and Death