Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Faith: Taking Flight by Julie Murphy

3 reviews

fanboyriot's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

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

1.0

I’m honestly kinda disappointed that I didn’t like this.  I just couldn’t get into it.

It was way too quick paced to the point I just didn’t care about anything that happened.  The dialogue was stiff and just overall felt like it was for a much younger audience rather than a YA book.

The friendships and side characters just kinda fell flat.  Especially when the plot twist happened in chapters 24/25.  I just honestly didn’t care at that point what happened.  Even the ending seem so rushed and I don’t understand why.

I will say the plus sized rep was nice along with some of the queer rep but that was about it for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Gaslighting, Animal death, Dementia, Addiction, Gun violence, and Mental illness

Moderate: Homophobia, Medical trauma, Car accident, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Biphobia, Bullying, Body shaming, Animal cruelty, Fatphobia, Kidnapping, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Death of parent, Confinement, Death, Stalking, Trafficking, Racism, and Blood

brookey8888's review

adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

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

2.75

I’m sad I didn’t enjoy this. I thought that faith was self centered and a bad friend. I also didn’t like the romance because it’s like a power imbalance even though their the same age. Also if she forgives them I can’t. As for the superhero stuff I felt like it was hardly explained or honestly really talked about. That being said I do love the fat and sexuality representation. I also appreciate the talk about dementia. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Toxic friendship, Death of parent, Drug use, Gaslighting, Grief, Kidnapping, Addiction, Animal cruelty, Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Car accident, Death, Dementia, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, and Toxic relationship

lily1304's review

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

3.0

I'll admit I got into the plot once the stakes were raised - and without the stakes of a mystery drug and a string of kidnappings, the old teen-superhero tropes would be too boring. As it is, they're a little tired. Teen narrator accidentally gets caught up in a romantic relationship and/or superhero stuff and ditches her normal friends because she doesn't know how to tell them she has superpowers.

A couple characters show some particularly creepy behavior that Faith totally falls for, and it turns out they are, indeed, doing creepy stuff. But at the end of the story, Faith is like super ready to forgive them and make excuses for them? And it's kind of unnerving. How she's like "these people that literally trafficked and abused me? well, not everything is black and white" yikes.

Also something kind of petty that bothered me:

Faith is trying to be a superhero in a collapsing building, and she literally tries to save dogs before people that she knows are also trapped. Uh... Girl?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Animal cruelty, Drug use, Confinement, Kidnapping, and Trafficking

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death of parent, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Medical content, and Toxic relationship