Reviews tagging 'Panic attacks/disorders'

She Gets the Girl by Rachael Lippincott, Alyson Derrick

14 reviews

lkristin2018's review against another edition

hopeful lighthearted reflective 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? No

4.0

This is an adorable coming of age LGTBQ+ love story between two college freshmen. Both protagonists are dealing with various challenges from their pasts, and both learn to value themselves for who they truly are rather than who they think they should be.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Addiction, Mental illness, Alcohol, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Racism, and Xenophobia

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Sexual content, and Car accident

cats33's review against another edition

emotional funny 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Body shaming, Cursing, Car accident, Abandonment, Mental illness, Infidelity, Sexual content, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Vomit, Bullying, Drug abuse, and Grief

grace_b_3's review against another edition

emotional 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

5.0

An excellent sapphic romance set in college, She Gets the Girl tells the story of Alex and Molly. Alex and Molly run into each other at a college party, and Alex decides to help Molly learn to flirt and get the girl she has a crush on, but as they spend time together, they get closer and become friends. 

Told in dual perspectives, both of Molly’s and Alex’s issues are dealt with by the narrative while still maintaining a lighter tone. 

Overall, just a really a cute romance to curl up with on a rainy day.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Racism and Car accident

sammyb's review against another edition

hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol and Alcoholism

Minor: Toxic relationship, Racial slurs, Panic attacks/disorders, and Car accident

a_ticcy_tapinella's review against another edition

emotional inspiring 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

5.0

absolutely amazing, the ending sealed the 5 stars for me. Definitely enemies to lovers and slow burn (imo). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, and Racism

midnightbelles's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful 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

5.0

I kept putting this book off for so long but once I started reading I didn’t want to put it down. This book was so much fun and I really enjoyed reading it. I loved seeing Molly grow more comfortable being herself and I also loved seeing Alex change and learn to let others in. I wish we got to see more of them together after the final chapter but overall this book was really sweet and I can’t wait to see what the author writes next!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Sexual content, Racism, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Car accident

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders

sarah984'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? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Normally I don't like romcoms but something about this really charmed me. The plot itself is a romcom mainstay (the characters are forced to spend time together for a ridiculous reason) but the characters are designed well enough that it feels like something they would do, and the character growth throughout was great.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism

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

Minor: Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Bullying, Racism, Classism, Infidelity, and Sexual content

matheo's review

emotional funny lighthearted

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Alcoholism, Racism, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Toxic relationship, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, and Drug use

lolajh's review

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

5.0

Everyone shut the FUCK UP this was so fucking good. It’s a whole fucking book with the same energy as ‘How You Get the Girl’ by Taylor swift and Heartstopper but it’s about LESBIANS. Molly and Alex, two lesbians who are heavily based off of the wonderful married authors of this book and their love story (so fucking cute oh my god kill me) are very fascinating characters and do make an adorable couple, especially what with the slow burn and gradual pining that begins to develop over halfway through the book. Like them watching Wynonna Earp together, the dressing room scene, the roller skating date, the scenes in the library and at Molly’s dorm are so fucking cute. Also the fucking character development. These two make each other so much better independent from each other whilst loving each other on the way. Molly grows out of her comfort zone and faces her insecurities and anxieties about herself and how she thinks she is perceived by others, and Alex learns how to love others properly and emotionally and being vulnerable with them and herself about her feeling human emotions and not bottling them up as much. Also a plus: no coming out scenes! They both have major mommy issues though. The scene where Molly’s mum buys Alex clothes and makes her tear up fucking broke me! Also the pop culture references were lowkey tolerable only because of the Wynonna Earp references. Spot on dude. Jim is also lowkey an icon when he stood up for Alex when she was getting harassed? Go Jim! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Abandonment, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Racism, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Car accident and Sexual content

Minor: Racial slurs and Sexual harassment

yvonne_cl's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Addiction, Toxic relationship, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Abandonment, Car accident, and Xenophobia