Reviews tagging 'Panic attacks/disorders'

Lírio azul, azul lírio by Maggie Stiefvater

28 reviews

gracefully_jk's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Gun violence, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Confinement

Minor: Kidnapping, Body horror, Gaslighting, Gore, Emotional abuse, Sexual harassment, and Physical abuse

For the worst of the body horror/gore:

At one point, a person’s death is described, and it includes a good deal of blood and a twisted spine, though not much more detail than that, and the death itself is not as upsetting as one might expect. At another point, a few body parts of children (no longer attached to said children) are described briefly, but only for a sentence or two, and they are not exactly real.

bi_n_large's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Gun violence, Violence, Murder, Gore, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Death of parent, Child death, and Physical abuse

sunsorbit's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Panic attacks/disorders, and Death

Moderate: Grief, Murder, Animal death, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Blood, and Confinement

Minor: Domestic abuse

Also contains: ghosts, spirits, and necromancy; possession (of a bird and a spirit); allusions to child sexual assault/pedophilia and child murder (these are only vaguely implied and part of a plot to

frame somebody for these crimes, but they did not commit them.

); the toxic relationship seems mutual and fulfilling to some end for both parties. There is no physical violence between them; The references to domestic abuse are short and happen in the scene where

Adam’s father comes to intimidate Adam into withdrawing his charges against him.

No domestic abuse actually happens.

cat_universe's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders and Abandonment

urlocalvocaloidstan's review against another edition

challenging dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

 This book is another amazing addition to The Raven Cycle series. There are even more plot twists and more questions are answered about Glendower and the strange things happening with the leylines in Henrietta. We finally get to meet Gansey’s old friend Malory in person and the Murder Squash Song is basically this universe’s version of Baby Shark. We also discover who Blue’s father is and we’re introduced to Colin and Piper Greenmantle, the new antagonists. Gwenillian is such a funny character but she’s terrifying at the same time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Domestic abuse, Cancer, and Suicide

fanboyriot's review against another edition

adventurous 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? No

5.0

This series is so captivating and interesting and stunning to read.  Seeing all the character development was amazing, it’s a very nice balance between characters and plot.  The humor was amazing and the overall writing is so lovely to read.  I really liked seeing Ronan and Blue have more of a friendship (though I don’t think either of them would admit it) seeing them be stubborn or them saying something the other’s wouldn’t dare say—very fun to read.  It was also nice to see Adam working on letting people help him without him thinking it was because of where—or how—he grew up.  He started to see that his friends just wanted to be there for him and it was just written so nicely. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, Cursing, and Death

Moderate: Blood, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, and Murder

Minor: Child death, Rape, Child abuse, Classism, and Mental illness

valley's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Death, Gun violence, and Violence

Moderate: Toxic friendship and Toxic relationship

grimmdark's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious sad 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? No

3.5

well ok so as always with these books i enjoyed myself thoroughly because i love the world and the characters and the story, so much! and i have about 3 million quotes i loved that i've kept, because maggie stiefvater's style is so rich. besides the humor (top notch), so many times i found myself reading descriptions of feelings or small moments that my mind could barely grasp as i lived through them. but there they were, laid down so accurately on the page! this sentence barely makes sense but yeah.
THAT SAID, out of the three books in this series that i've read thus far, this is my least favorite. again, it was really good! just not my favorite. there's so much happening everywhere all the time with everyone and everything felt kind of scattered? so all the elements of the story kind of just... float aimlessly towards the ending? i don't know. i felt i was kind of grabbing at too many strings at the same time, and it made the story feel perhaps longer than it was. could be because this is also the book that's taken me by far the longest to finish cause i've been busy!
can't wait to dig into trk!

i'm beyond heartbroken about persephone and jesse dittley. i loved them both so much
also, i was half expecting neeve to make a comeback sooner or later, but i wasn't expecting that ending! she knew piper's name but the latter hadn't ever told her what it was. so either she guessed it with her powers somehow, since she's such a powerful psychic, or she was there the whole time and overheard it when blue, the gray man, etc... were still there. creepy. why does she even make an appearance such a long time after they escape? like did she just stand there watching piper fading in and out of consciousness for however long that was???
i don't know how i feel about gwenllian! and i'm having trouble believing the guy blue found with maura actually is THEE artemus???? guess we'll see.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Grief, Gun violence, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal cruelty, Blood, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, and Cursing

limiwh's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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: Death, Gun violence, and Violence

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, and Ableism

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, and Rape

carlyisnotliterate's review against another edition

adventurous 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

5.0

boyfriends who frame their Latin teacher for unspeakable crimes against children together, stay together <3

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Blood, Cursing, and Pedophilia