Reviews tagging 'Panic attacks/disorders'

Lord Loss by Darren Shan

4 reviews

johnathanwet's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.5

I read this series as a child and can’t believe I got through them. I was such a scaredy cat over everything but absolutely loved these. Good news: the horror elements absolutely hold up.

What I didn’t remember was the misogynistic introduction to our main character. I was shocked but guiessi shouldn’t have been in a “boys” book, unfortunately.

This book is also veeery slow. High octane beginning slows into a crawl through the middle, before revving back up for the finale.

Ultimately a fun, easy read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Suicide attempt, Body horror, Blood, Gore, Murder, and Torture

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders

charlizardbookboi17's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Animal death, Gore, Murder, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Grief, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Child death

darkefyres's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Body horror, Death of parent, Violence, Child death, Death, Murder, and Blood

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Panic attacks/disorders, Confinement, and Animal death

Minor: Infidelity and Medical content

ludmireads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense 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? No

3.5

I was sceptical at the beginning, because I’m not the target audience anymore but my friend loves this series (he’s been trying to get me to read it for years) and he gifted me his whole collection and I promised him I’d give it a try. 

And I enjoyed it! It was a bit darker than I thought, but I loved that. I’m mad that it took me so long to listen to my friend and read it because younger me would absolutely love this!

There was one thing that was very confusing and that I didn’t like that much and it was the format (NOTE: I read the Czech translation and have no idea if this is in other languages too). It was kinda weird that the paragraphs weren’t visibly separated. I’m used to stopping in the middle of chapters so sometimes I had no idea where I stopped reading and it’s also “aesthetically” not that pleasing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Blood, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Death, Animal death, Child death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder