Reviews tagging 'Panic attacks/disorders'

Kiss Her Once For Me by Alison Cochrun

163 reviews

katelynprice's review

emotional hopeful medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Sexual content

Moderate: Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, and Abandonment

Minor: Biphobia and Transphobia

dojipengin's review

emotional funny inspiring reflective sad 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: Cursing, Addiction, Sexual content, Panic attacks/disorders, Child abuse, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Bullying, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Drug use, Ableism, and Biphobia

Minor: Fatphobia and Body shaming

taynicole2698's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted fast-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, and Alcohol

Minor: Biphobia, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Sexism, Ableism, Bullying, and Racism

danajoy's review

emotional hopeful reflective

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, and Mental illness

amandab0514's review

lighthearted 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders and Sexual content

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Infidelity, and Alcohol

readandfindout's review

medium-paced

3.5

Style/writing: 3.5 stars
Themes: 4 stars
Characters: 4 stars
Plot: 2.5 stars

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Abandonment, Lesbophobia, Biphobia, Infidelity, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, and Child abuse

Minor: Ableism, Gaslighting, Racism, Misogyny, Transphobia, Death, and Body shaming

percervall's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful 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: Sexual content and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Child abuse, and Toxic relationship

haileyhardcover's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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? Yes

5.0

Very recently, in a review for a book I was massively disappointed by, I wrote that I hate first person point of view and it never reads well. I take it back. It sometimes reads very, very well. Case in point, Kiss Her Once for Me.

I loved this book. It was everything I wanted in a sapphic Christmas romcom. Ellie and Jack were both delightful and seemed to be fully fleshed out characters. Even when Ellie was thinking completely illogically, I still fully understood her thought process and how she could feel and respond the way she did. The characters made SENSE, even when they weren’t making sense. Fully developed characters are my favorite. Also, Meemaw and Lovey? Iconic. I’m obsessed. 

Though the premise of this story isn’t unique (why are there SO MANY sapphic holiday books that involve fake-dating the brother of the girl the MC ends up falling for??), this was well executed. The characters were all so easy to love, the pace was perfect, the spice (though brief) was good, and it made me both laugh and cry. The one thing I would’ve loved was for the bits of Ellie’s webcomic “Snow Day” to have actually included the art. It was very cool to read Ellie & Jack’s origin story through her eyes in that way, woven throughout the rest of the story, but it would’ve been so cool for the book to be part graphic novel in that way. I would love to see a special edition come out that included the webcomic as Ellie would’ve published it. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Abandonment, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, and Alcohol

Minor: Bullying, Body shaming, and Biphobia

ladygetslit's review

emotional hopeful lighthearted reflective 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Biphobia, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, and Mental illness

kathrynok's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted 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

Graphic: Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Emotional abuse, Biphobia, and Drug use