Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Luna and the Lie by Mariana Zapata

17 reviews

teardropsonmypaperback's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny reflective slow-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gun violence, Abandonment, Child abuse, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

amy_sutt's review

dark emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Death of parent, and Child abuse

Minor: Addiction, Toxic relationship, Drug use, Physical abuse, and Violence

Most of the triggers are related to the FMC’s upbringing and some in the behavior of the oldest sister (next oldest to FMC). Occurs mostly off page

baylakressi's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful mysterious slow-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

Man, the way my eyes bug out of my head when Mariana slips in a “baby girl” half way (or more) through the book. Gets me every time.

I really liked this one! This has a lot of god tropes: grumpy x sunshine, workplace romance, enemies to friends to lovers, touch her and you die, age gap. The list goes on. Slow burn though which isn’t my favorite, but only Mariana could make me read a ~500+ page book where I wait until about 90% in for them to bang. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse and Child abuse

Minor: Physical abuse, Abandonment, Death of parent, Addiction, Drug use, Car accident, and Alcoholism

belenn's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.5

mariana zapata is one of my favourite authors, i read her books once in a while so i don't finish her backlist too quickly.

i really liked this! i've been in a reading slump, so it wasn't easy for me to be captured in a book, but from the very first page i fell in love with luna. i'll admit, at some point of the book her romance with rip felt like a subplot and i was fine with it. one thing about mz is that her characters inner dialogues are amazing. im always highlighting a lot of things and i loved luna and i learned a lot of thing from the way she views life. i related a lot to her so seeing the way she copes with things felt very familiar.

rip... wasn't my fav mz man but also wasn't the worst. at first i was just okay with him because he just felt like the usual grumpy man that says two words (im not hating, that's literally my fav trope). until half in the book when his character really develops. he really won me over, im not gonna lie! 

family dynamics are SO complex and not everything is black and white. this did a really great job highlighting that. 

luna my beloved i'd go to war for you <3

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent

melissalivanos's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse

Moderate: Death of parent

milesofkiles's review against another edition

emotional funny slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Violence, and Drug use

Moderate: Death of parent and Car accident

cariam's review against another edition

emotional relaxing medium-paced

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

4.0

It’s no secret I love Mariana Zapata books. Ugh. 

Of course it was a glorious slow burn, but it was so satisfying because the plot and the characters were  necessary to get to know before the love really kicked you in the gut. Rip and Luna were so wonderful! 

Definitely a recommend read! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Bullying, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Drug abuse, Abandonment, and Death of parent

charm0nix's review against another edition

emotional mysterious slow-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Abandonment, Panic attacks/disorders, Car accident, and Child abuse

Minor: Drug abuse and Death of parent

ava_mussell's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

The saving grace of this book was how good the romance was. Like, that's the whole point, but the plot itself was really stupid at times and I didn't feel like I got closure with so much that was going on.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident and Death of parent

Moderate: Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Acephobia/Arophobia, Abandonment, and Drug use

lotte5322's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Violence, Car accident, Child abuse, and Death of parent