Reviews tagging 'Bullying'

The Awakening: As Told by the Boys by Susanne Valenti, Caroline Peckham

24 reviews

lotte5322's review

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Child abuse, Blood, Bullying, Murder, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Alcoholism, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Torture, Toxic friendship, and Abandonment

Minor: Car accident

hannahwriightt's review

dark emotional funny tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Death, and Sexual content

Moderate: Child abuse, Violence, Alcoholism, and Incest

Minor: Death of parent and Car accident

kaireadsbooks's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying

brandilawson56's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Violence, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Torture

dkgreads's review

adventurous dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.0

There’s two sides to every story, which is why I freaking love dual POV books. I’m glad I decided to read this before jumping into book two, because having a peek into the boys’ heads during the events of The Awakening was super enlightening. However, now matter how compelling the reasons behind their actions were, I still hope the twins come into their power and completely hand the boys their a$$es.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Torture, Violence, Physical abuse, Bullying, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual content

briochebun's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

4.25 out of 5 ☆’s.

”The darkness is your closest friend, but it’s time to let it go.”

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This retelling of the first novel FAR exceeded my expectations!

(I still cannot believe that I had such a wondrous — and at times painful — time reading about these events that I already knew the outcome of…)

Going into this novel, I was a bit worried that my decision to read “The Awakening: as Told by the Boys” before ”Ruthless Fae” would prove to be an unwise one because I would be interrupting the flow the story (therefore potentially sending me into a slump if I didn’t end up enjoying ”The Awakening: as Told by the Boys”). 

Now that I’ve finished the novel it’s clear to me that I did in fact make the correct decision by reading this first! (yayyy 🥳)

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Getting to see everything that the male characters were up to during the events of TA was an eye-opening experience, and I’m sooo glad that I got more insight into their personal lives as well as their thought processes (especially Caleb’s) during all of the chaos…

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I’m just itching to begin “Ruthless Fae“ and continue this story! ♡

P.S. Orion still owns my heart. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Sexual harassment and Death

charhollyx's review

dark sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

A really interesting insight into how the boys perceived the awakening and the events following.
As I read this after book 7, I found it was difficult to reread the boys without their character development, Seth in particular who I grew to love.
I would recommend reading it last, because although the characters are still hard to swallow, there is a little too much  obvious foreshadowing which annoyed me a bit. 
I would have preferred all of the boys pov’s, as it was mostly Darius and Orion with a splash of Seth and Caleb and only one chapter of Max - I wanted equally distributed chapters for all the heirs and Orion, but it was still a fun read and I have missed Solaria and Zodiac Academy a lot!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Sexual content, Alcoholism, and Bullying

katvou's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Sexual content

Moderate: Emotional abuse

Minor: Alcohol, Car accident, Death, and Death of parent

kat1105's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

Minor: Trafficking and Slavery

psydneigh's review

dark medium-paced

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

3.5

This is the spice i was looking for in the awakening. I really liked seeing the guys perspectives though I feel like this book dragged a bit. Their thoughts felt a bit repetitive and i found myself losing interest at points, but im glad i read this before continuing on with the series so i know where they are at too

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Suicidal thoughts