Reviews tagging 'Panic attacks/disorders'

Diamond in the Dark by Poppy Jacobson

4 reviews

misswirum's review

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

2.75

Lmao, this book..... I don't even know what to say.
The book started good and gave me such high hope, but the FMC cries ALL.THE.TIME. She's suppose to be this strong and independent woman who takes no shit, but she cries in every other page. One time she even cried over a newspaper because she missed reading it so much lol.

The word "cried" is used 41 times in the book. "Cry" is used 23 times. "Cries" two times and "tear/tears" 88 fucking times.

The sentence "I needn’t have worried." is used 6 times.
This author need an editor (or a better editor).

Spoilers below:




This is an extreme fast-burn and insta-love. The whole book takes place over a 3 week-span. They tell each other "I love you" after knowing each other for THREE WHOLE WEEKS and they only hung out 1 (O-N-E) week. It's ridiculous.

Some other reviewer pointed out the 180° turn the MMC's did in the end is extremely unrealistic. They have built up their whole operation from scratch and suddenly want to throw the whole thing out because of a girl they have hung out with ONE week?!
Also, the FMC SA the FMC in day one (or was it two). She stills "miss them" and "love them" after one week. Bfr.

Alexi being the bad guy was clear from day one, absolutely no plot-twist what so ever.

They also calls each other "married" and "wife" even tho they aren't married yet. The FMC even lost a contract because of the "morality clause" because she was married to some gangsters (even tho she wasn't!!). Makes no sense.

Don't think I will read the second book.

2,5/5⭐️
1,5/5📝
3/5🌶

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

abicaro17's review

challenging dark emotional funny tense medium-paced

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

3.0

Honestly I would have loved this book had it not been for the blatant sexual assault in the first %50 of the book. Reviews mentioned something that was hard to get past in the beginning of the book but nothing prepared me for that. Quite honestly I was debating DNFing about 100 pages in. If you're uncomfortable with anything resembling CNC I definitely wouldn't read this. Once you get past that, the relationship between Ginerva, Liam, Rian, and Cormac is actually very balanced and pleasant for a mob poly relationship. It never feels like one member gets more time than another and everyone has important roles both in the mob and the relationship. The plot is well written and sensible, making every choice reasonable and action sensible. This being said I wouldn't read this again or recommend it solely based on the first 150 pages. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Murder, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

sarge_books_galore's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

2.5

This is a dark mafia romance that is also a why-choose romance. This book deals a lot with Dom/sub relationship dynamic’s. It has CNC, knife play, and a few other kinks that I don’t know the specific names for. The CNC is strange at first and I did not like it. It felt like it was missing the first C in the CNC, if you get what I mean. It wasn’t really r***, it was more like she was reluctant to like what was going on. The men also didn’t have the best intentions at the beginning of the relationship, as in they had full intentions to harm her. A safe word is talked about and used but not until later in the story. It was kind of a hard read at times, but I really liked the relationship at the end of the book. All things considered the ending is way better than the beginning and it’s not really worth the read unless you have a hard core CNC kink and don’t mind the consent being ambiguous.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Eating disorder, Misogyny, and Sexism

Minor: Domestic abuse

Her eating disorder is more of her not taking care of herself and then they feed her.

tguccione's review

dark tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Torture, Violence, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Trafficking

Minor: Pregnancy