Reviews tagging 'Panic attacks/disorders'

The Pisces by Melissa Broder

7 reviews

brookeslots's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

Lady discovers mermaids are real and instead of being shocked is like “what is the fastest way I can sleep with him?” Respect. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Animal cruelty

eliya's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

so sad i didn’t review this after i read it 

took me about 9h 48m to read this book 

i imagine me reading this as a 22 year old sobbing, clutching it to my chest curled up while Retired From Sad, New Career in Business by Mitsky plays loudly, so distressed i’m not bothered by the hair of mine that was caught on the wall as i slid down. 

i read this book and i began to see myself from back then in such a different light. sympathetic but pitiful. i get why i lost all my friends, i guess. the aching desire to not be alone spun me around more than anything else. i did love this book. 

when the dog died, i saw the signs coming and i was truly devastated.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Sexual content

Moderate: Grief, Mental illness, Classism, Chronic illness, Cursing, and Panic attacks/disorders

nahochacon's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-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? Yes

3.75

Creo que the pisces es un libro que nos ilumina las adiciones más allá de las drogas y el alcohol. Creo que muestra la soledad y el abandono de buenas formas y la desesperación de tener a alguien a tu lado. Me gustó bastante porque si bien pensé que el final iba a ser trágico, quedo contenta con el rayo de esperanza. El libro no debe ser visto como una historia , sino como una realidad más común de lo que esperamos.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Grief, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Drug use, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, and Suicide attempt

literarytaurean's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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? Yes

5.0

Melissa Broder just solidified herself as my favorite author alive (Rooney is probably second). She is always so raw and ugly in the most realistic sense while sucking you into mentally and sexually disturbed scenarios. Her writing is honest and twisted and relatable and I couldn't find anything better for myself. She's the only author I can read 150+ pgs per sitting, she's incredible.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Excrement, Grief, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Medical content, Medical trauma, Sexual assault, Stalking, and Toxic relationship

bree_klass's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

a beautiful mess of a book

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Stalking, Sexual content, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Addiction

frappy's review

dark emotional funny 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship

hungeberg's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

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

1.0

This review is slightly graphic but won't be too spoilery. 

First of all  - i did debate giving this 0 or 0,5 stars. However i do find small things of marit in this book. Second of all I was recommended this which is why i choose to finish it even though i struggled with the getting through it. 

Let's start with the good; 
- It's a complicated story about love addiction with a magical realism twist which I in the big whole like. 
- Lucy as a narrator was decent. 

Things i disliked
- I'm not one for smutty/erotic books and especially not when the character participating in the sexual acts are not even enjoying it? Why would I want to read about bad hurtful sex in such detail? AND SO MANY TIMES?! And then when Lucy finally found a partner who she enjoyed to fuck then it was some weird very specific "kinky"  shit that not everyone would like (least of all me?!). 
- I am not a classics student or for that matter a literary one and therefore I don't really have any claim on knowing Sapho's poems that well. However I do as a queer woman find Sapho to be a queer icon/character who participates in romantic/sexual relationships with both genders but especially with women. And somehow the use of her as a character in this book to justify this heterosexual bullshit rubbed me the wrong way. 
- the treatment of other women in this book is horrendous. 

Things I hated
- Does such a thing as toxic heterosexuality exist? Because then this would be it? 
- Lucy seems to learn a few lessons by the end of a book. BUT NOT NEARLY ENOUGH??? At least it wasn't written out in a way that make it seem like she will become a better person ESPECIALLY to the other women in her life. 
- The treatment of the dog. Nough said. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Panic attacks/disorders, Excrement, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Cursing, Animal cruelty, and Alcoholism