Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater

10 reviews

valenhv8's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious tense 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Drug use, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Self harm, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Blood, and Death of parent

Minor: Murder, Gun violence, Child abuse, Kidnapping, and Grief

atomicrobin's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Drug use, Drug abuse, Homophobia, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Gaslighting, and Death

Minor: Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Suicide attempt

ifoundcallie's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Blood, Bullying, Car accident, Death, Homophobia, Outing, Drug use, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Murder, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Alcohol

Moderate: Body horror, Classism, Grief, Kidnapping, Torture, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Stalking, Emotional abuse, and Gun violence

Minor: Alcoholism, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Animal death, Child abuse, Cursing, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Animal cruelty, and Suicidal thoughts

A homophobic slur is used on page, fair warning.

tania_mybookishsecret's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Drug use, Drug abuse, Violence, Homophobia, and Alcohol

Moderate: Stalking and Death

Minor: Death of parent, Car accident, and Kidnapping

bi_n_large's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious reflective tense 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Murder, Torture, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Alcohol, and Death

Minor: Abandonment, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Misogyny

andreadelo's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Drug use, Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Murder, Cursing, Addiction, and Mental illness

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Kidnapping, Bullying, Car accident, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Death of parent, Classism, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, and Gun violence

anni_swanilda's review

adventurous emotional mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Self harm, Car accident, Death, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Physical abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, and Murder

thegr1mreader's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Suicide attempt, Child abuse, Classism, and Homophobia

Minor: Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, and Sexual assault

adamustdie_'s review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.5

"dying is a boring side effect." 
this book was even better than the first one. i love how the characters keep getting more complicated. we got to see ronans sweeter side and i couldnt love him more. i think adam acting slightly shitty was accurate representation of his mental state and made me self-reflect because i related to him so much in the first book(still do but i would say im more a mix of ronan, him and blue).

kavinsky thirsting over ronan was so funny because i know how much ronan held back cause he knew kavinsky is a scumbag of a person. noah and blues kissing scene made me cry.

also im kind of in love with blue.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Drug use, Kidnapping, and Alcohol

Minor: Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Murder, and Suicide attempt

gothicmoon's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense 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? It's complicated

4.0

Same writing quality and better characterisation for Ronan, Noah (in the beginning), and further explorations of Gansey, Blue, and Adam. However, between Kavinsky's constant (and purposeful) misogynistic comments and Blue's own misogynistic thoughts at Orla... it takes away from the book. Also, the plot doesn't quite hold up, either. <spoiler)I don't understand how Ronan could've been meant to dream something to solve a problem he didn't know he had? The puzzle box ends up being more of a mcguffin than anything else. Also Ronans entire problem is simply because his dad is an ass and never thought him how to dream.

Another downfall is that I simply do not enjoy Gray Man pov.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Grief, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Murder, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Violence, Death, and Suicide

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexism, and Xenophobia

Minor: Animal cruelty and Torture