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Watch Over Me by Nina LaCour

12 reviews

karinavenice's review

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Death

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Child abuse

gellyreads's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.5

So, I kept pondering and pondering why this book wasn’t quite working for me, as I feel like the idea was good, and I liked the MC well enough. Then I realized it’s because all the characters are flat.

And this never changes. She is only defined by her trauma. Why does her mom supposedly say no to bio dad but not the abuser? We don’t know. Why is he evil? We don’t know. Why does she blame herself and obsess over the idea of being perfect? I don’t know, all this book told me over and over is that she had trauma, okay. Trauma! And like, again, ghosts being you before trauma? Great idea.

And this book made me emotional. But it could’ve been more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Abandonment, Fire/Fire injury, and Grief

bek_p87's review

emotional reflective tense 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

5.0

This is my first Nina LaCour - and won't be my last. It is sad, haunting, mesmerising, and hopeful.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Child abuse

Moderate: Death

Minor: Sexual content

ghostlyprince's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, and Sexual content

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Blood

Minor: Animal death and Car accident

there's a scene in the book where the main protag listens in on a couple having sex then masturbates to it this isn't exactly a tw warning for anything specific but the main protag was... weirdly possessive of a child in the story and not in a 'I see you as my kid and want to protect you way'

karapillar's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad slow-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Sexual content

boneloose's review

emotional hopeful mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

I have never cried more while reading a book. There's times I've teared up at books, but this one had me fully sobbing multiple times throughout it.

If you want a book about trauma and recovery and saving yourself while/by saving others and messily learning to become a human again through unconditional love from a found family you're creating this is the book for you. Also with the addition of literal ghosts as a metaphor for your past haunting you.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Sexual content

jojo_'s review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Abandonment, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury and Sexual content

Minor: Blood

massivepizzacrust's review

challenging emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I'm not sure if I can give a Nina LaCour book less than 5 stars at this point because the writing is just so beautiful every time. My only complaint is that I could have read another 100 pages of the same story and been happy. The atmosphere, the characters, the plot, I'm in love with it all. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Alcohol, Child abuse, Death, Abandonment, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Sexual content

Childhood trauma happens in flashbacks.

biacedbooks's review

dark emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

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

3.75

I definitely liked this book but some parts of it were very upsetting to read 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

Minor: Sexual content

kierscrivener's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense

• 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? It's complicated

3.0

This is not a frightening horror, but uses ghosts to explore mental health in foster kids.

Mila has aged out of the foster system, so she goes to a rural farm where she teaches younger foster kids school, and where they eat a lot of soup and ghosts dance in the fields and manifest their trauma.

It is not a terrifying books, but it is one that discusses ptsd and using haunting as a way of showing flashbacks. It was a good book that kept me invested and wanting to know more. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Child abuse