Reviews tagging 'Panic attacks/disorders'

Pucking Around (includes That One Night) by Emily Rath

33 reviews

smartcookiesca's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Cancer, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Death of parent

garbage_mcsmutly's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

5.0

📝 Okay so this book was super long but it makes sense that it is? It's a why choose with 1 FMC and 3 MMC's, and we get POVs from all four of them. And the book doesn't end when they all get together, it actually spends a good amount of time grappling with what it would mean for famous-ish people to be poly.

🎧 The narration for these characters was really good and nuanced overall. There was one thing that kinda bugged me with one of the narrators, but I was able to look past it after a bit. They did a good job with the sexual tension and the sexytimes, as well as the "normal" thoughts and feelings.

🌶️ 5/5. There is no other way to rate this book... It was chock full of hot sex. Like almost all the possible configurations of the four of them happen, there's a ton of fun and playfulness, there's a little bit of kinky stuff. And there was just a lot of sexy scenes 😆

🏳️‍🌈✊ It's a foursome (MFMM), so there's straight, bi, and queer rep amongst the MCs. As for other forms of diversity, there were one or two side characters that were explicitly not white but they barely get any page time. Even class-wise, 3/4 of them are like mega rich, there's really not a lot of diversity besides sexuality. But you can't be everything for everyone all at once. It's good at what it is.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content, and Medical content

Moderate: Misogyny, Violence, Outing, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Biphobia, Cancer, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Abandonment

meowrie's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful 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

I know nothing about hockey. I don't care about hockey. But when a book is this full of MMF+M spicy scenes, I'll read a book about hockey. 
Rachel was sweet, had a sensitive side, but was strong and sexy too. 
The guys were a perfect blend of everything you want in a man. And there are 3 of them. She has 3 holes so it works out perfectly. 
The sex was hot and the scenes were varied. It wasn't 750 pages of the same thing over and over. 
This book has been recommended in so many book groups, and I'm glad I finally got to it. Fun summer read 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Edit. The audio is pretty bad. Amy Hall has this halting delivery, Ash Beverly forgets he is supposed to be Finnish, and Alex Kydd has this odd chuckle that he does. It really was hard to listen to. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Misogyny

Minor: Alcoholism, Bullying, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Medical content, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

cookreadrepeat'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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Vomit, and Dysphoria

shinyfox's review against another edition

emotional funny 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Violence, and Medical content

Moderate: Homophobia, Misogyny, Outing, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Pregnancy

peachmoni's review against another edition

emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

4.0

The page count had me stuck – why would a romance need to be damn near 800 pages?? But damn if I didn't enjoy nearly every page. (There were 1 or 2 bits of dialogue that repeated.) Overall, I liked this way more than I thought I would. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content, and Medical content

Moderate: Ableism, Misogyny, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cancer, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Abandonment

underscoresyd's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, and Outing

Moderate: Homophobia, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders and Pregnancy

sha's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual violence, Violence, and Medical content

beebowbabe's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted 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? It's complicated

3.75

I had no idea a why choose sports romance would make me think so much about my relationships and the flexibility of the human experience 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing and Sexual content

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Outing, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Biphobia, Homophobia, Sexism, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

heftsi's review

challenging slow-paced

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

1.0

I will never read a book like this again. This book is entirely too long and would’ve been great without the never ending sex scenes. I had to skip forward and play the audiobook at up to 2x speed in several cases. The backstory is interesting but unfortunately overshadowed by the unending sex scenes.

When I saw the audiobook was 14.5 hours I thought there’s no way a book needs to be that long. And the reason it’s so long is because it’s a bunch of drawn out sex scenes linked together by an interesting story. This bin could have been shorter. Way shorter. But apparently the sex scenes just had to be as long as possible. I wish there was a version I’d the book with less sex and more story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Toxic relationship

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Outing, and Injury/Injury detail