Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

Stranger Things: Runaway Max by Brenna Yovanoff

6 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

bernard_black's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse

jesserebekah's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Racism

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

raqo's review against another edition

informative fast-paced

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

2.75

i liked that it gave me insight on max’s thoughts and backstory but there wasn’t much else to it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Racism

qi_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark relaxing fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

3.0

the ending was so wholesome i was dancing the whole way through and truly ate this shit up. 
objectively how good is this? it's actually not badly written so i'll give it that. the author didn't rely too heavily on the shows plot however, this is the only one of the stranger things books that place during the time of the show so i guess i understand why she felt the need to include crucial scenes for max's character. but, i did find those segments a little boring. only when she started to elaborate upon that was it much more engaging. 

tw: broken families and children of divorce are clearly a driving topic so if that may be distressing maybe give it a skip

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Physical abuse