Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Stranger Things. Wszyscy mówią na mnie Max by Brenna Yovanoff

5 reviews

hiddenfallacies's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful 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

3.0

The best parts of Runaway Max are the original segments detailing her life in California before moving to Hawkins. The content makes sense for the established characters and does a good job furthering the parts of her backstory learned in the show. 

Runaway Max suffers the most in the moments where it retells scenes from the show with minimal additions or changes. It also heavily depends on readers having previously watched the second season for context, keeping descriptions bland and forgetting to link together plot points. The novel also tends to repeat the same terms and thoughts over and over rather than coming up with different ways to portray Max's shifting mindset. 

Overall, this is worth the read if you love the character and simply want more content of her. Just be prepared that the depth and quality of it is not the same as the show's. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Animal cruelty, Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, Domestic abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexism, Alcohol, Bullying, Racism, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Drug use, Cursing, Blood, Abandonment, and Classism

rystonlentil43's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

2.75

I love Max and this was a great reinforcement of that, but it got ridiculously repetitive, like there was a minimum word count and the book didn't have enough plot of its own to support it. Sophie Amoss did a good job reading; I'd probably have given up otherwise.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Racism

bleuennreads_'s review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Child abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Racism, and Violence

Minor: Animal death

123urmom's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad medium-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

4.0

I enjoyed hearing Max’s backstory. It was a well-written book. I would rate it a 5 because I like the book but I don’t actually like the book because it goes into detail about the abuse Max sees in her home. I do not recommend it to anyone who does not like reading abt that stuff.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Racism, Sexism, and Violence

Billy and his father are very very abusive and bigoted. Be safe please, I loved this book but it is very triggering

vivpills's review against another edition

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

4.5

max mayfield deserves so much better 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Physical abuse

Moderate: Racism