Reviews tagging 'Panic attacks/disorders'

Lilacs and Leather by Thora Woods

4 reviews

booksnart2023's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny inspiring sad tense slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, and Sexual assault

Minor: Biphobia, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Car accident, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

rileyk's review against another edition

dark emotional tense 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

amy_sutt's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful sad tense 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? It's complicated

4.0

Good queer rep (all the pack members are queer).  The Omega who is our FMC and a victim of abuse and comes out of a fundamentalist religious background and abuse is hiding from her family and ex. She is attracted to an alpha while working at a wedding for the florist shop she works for and the rest, as they say, is history.  The relationships are complex and I think the author does a great job of bringing those complexities to life as well as the complicated history on both sides.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Religious bigotry, and Gaslighting

Minor: Rape

Lydia's past involves many of these triggers.

her past of religious fanaticism results in her narcissistic mother and family gaslighting her abuse and her abusive, rapist ex-boyfriend threatening her when he finds out where she lives

There is also mention of a past relationship of the pack that is abusive emotionally and involves blackmail .

unicornofthesea's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism