Reviews tagging 'Car accident'

Verona Comics by Jennifer Dugan

23 reviews

fizzy_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Medical content, Emotional abuse, Car accident, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Hate crime, Toxic relationship, and Injury/Injury detail

ecster's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

• 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

3.0

This was an OK book to listen to, a very obvious Romeo & Juliet story. Ridley's anxiety was very annoying to listen to even if it can be like this.

I did like the hopeful ending and how the protagonists are actively working on themselves

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Car accident, Mental illness, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Emotional abuse

thisiscourt's review against another edition

tense fast-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Car accident, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

editoryalizing's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.0

I think this book was marketed wrong. This is not a light and funny romcom about to queer teens, serious topics, about mental health, parental neglect, queerphobia are present on nearly every page. The story is good, and it’s a fresh take on the Romeo and Juliet storyline. I don’t see myself reading this again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Outing, Panic attacks/disorders, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, and Abandonment

Moderate: Car accident and Forced institutionalization

hannah_lilli's review against another edition

dark funny informative sad tense

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Self harm, Suicide attempt, Biphobia, Car accident, Child abuse, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

egsclafani's review against another edition

emotional tense slow-paced

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

2.5

Once I realized what it was an adaptation of, I had fun guessing how it would end. That was the main reason I finished it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Medical trauma, Car accident, Mental illness, and Toxic relationship

ashley_mcfadden's review against another edition

dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

Up until about the halfway point, this book was almost a star higher. Look, I love that books are addressing more concerning mental health issues, like severe depression and what that can do to the people around you, and I don’t think it was handled bad at all. In fact that was probably the most real part of the book even though it was, admittedly, my least favorite (at least when Jubilee and Ridley were together and he literally became dependent on her for everything and she didn’t even really question it). I love that the characters got help too for the mental disorders and for her codependency issue that arose because of the situation. I do feel like a lot of the issues surrounding the comic books store was not finished and it felt like this big lead up that they were all so worried about and literally nothing happened with it at all. Other than the setting, the comic book part really was not impactful to the story despite how central the business is to both of the characters initial story lines. I don’t know, it just felt like after a certain characters were forgotten about, plots were flipped upside down, and eventually it felt like I was suddenly reading a different book. Unfortunately, it wasn’t my favorite, and despite it dealing with real world issues, the characters and the plot started to get on my nerves. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Self harm, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Car accident

khakipantsofsex's review

dark hopeful medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Child abuse

Moderate: Alcoholism, Biphobia, Drug use, Car accident, and Suicide attempt

itsy719's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Blood

Moderate: Homophobia, Suicide, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Bullying, Gaslighting, and Self harm

Minor: Vomit

lillamyy's review

emotional funny hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.0

Jubilee har allt planerat, hon spelar cello på elitnivå och arbetar i sin styvmors lilla serietidnings affär när hon inte förbereder sig inför sin stora audition. 
Ridleys liv är en ständig röra. Hans föräldrar äger den största kedjan av serietidnings affärer och de är ständigt besvikna på honom för att han inte åstadkommer något. Jubilee och Ridley möts en kväll på en comic convention maskerad och fattar tycke för varandra. Oturligt nog är deras föräldrar varandras fiender och en relation mellan dem är omöjlig, men kanske kan det fungera om de håller förhållandet hemligt för alla andra. Allt går bra tills Ridleys ångest ökar, Jubilee försöker hjälpa honom så bra hon kan men slits mellan att fokusera på sin kommande audition och deras ökadande komplexa förhållande. Kan kärleken övervinna allt? Vad händer om de behöver mer än vad den andre kan ge?
En känslomässig bok som ger läsaren en liten inblick i hur det kan vara att ha ångest och ifrågasätta allt man tänker och gör, att inget av det är bra på något sätt. Det blev tydligt när varje kapitel utgick från en persons perspektiv och även ibland bollade tillbaka händelsen till nästa persons perspektiv i kapitlet efter. Allt blev känslosamt och slutet kulminerade i en stor känslostorm som sakta ebbade ut och lämnade mig med ett hopp om karaktärernas framtid. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Car accident