Reviews tagging 'Panic attacks/disorders'

Even If We Break by Marieke Nijkamp

16 reviews

bradley's review

dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Suicidal thoughts, Addiction, Child death, Mental illness, Car accident, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Transphobia, and Violence

Moderate: Hate crime, Ableism, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Toxic friendship

mxajlikesbooks's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.5

Plot seemed messy and all over the place, too much going on at once with various character's personal circumstances. Book needed to be longer and go into much more depth about various things to get the feel I think it was going for. Felt like I didn't have time to properly absorb or care about character details. Some of the dialogue and text was too on the nose. I love a good found family, creating your own meaning from life and facing it together sorry, but I didn't need to be beaten over the head with that being one of the main themes. I really wanted to like this book and finished it out of curiosity to see how it ended but I couldn't get into it and just didn't care like it wanted me to.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Moderate: Car accident, Addiction, Bullying, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, and Panic attacks/disorders

parasolcrafter's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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? Yes

2.75

this book could have been so much better, but it fell miles short </3

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Death, Ableism, Gore, Grief, Drug use, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Body horror, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Toxic friendship

anniereads221's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Toxic friendship, Blood, Addiction, Drug use, Murder, Car accident, Drug abuse, Grief, and Panic attacks/disorders

madarauchiha's review

slow-paced

2.5

This feels like fanfic but not really in a good way. I guess if you like DND then you'd like this book. I don't, so I didn't. Also I'm an adult and I'm not into reading about being a teenager. Been there done that.

The writing was ok. I think it held suspense well enough. It was a very standard 'group goes to isolated location, gets picked off until the ending' story. 

The ending was irritating and felt shallow.

major plot spoiler

Spoiler

livia is the villain because all her friends are doing better than her. ok sure whatever. also she was abused as a child which made her evil.. Um. No.

content warnings
minor ableism, medical content, animal cruelty, animal hunting, 

medium child abuse, car accidents, injuries, ableism, transphobia, hate crime, 

major addiction, drug abuse, death, murder, gore, drug use, panic attacks, 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Death, Child death, Murder, Gore, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Child abuse, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Ableism, Transphobia, and Hate crime

Minor: Ableism, Medical content, and Animal cruelty

puttingwingsonwords's review

dark emotional reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Blood, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Murder, Violence, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Bullying, Ableism, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Transphobia

Minor: Animal death and Animal cruelty

serenitycaptain's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore

Moderate: Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Transphobia

mydearwatsonbooks's review

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Toxic friendship, Panic attacks/disorders, and Addiction

Minor: Bullying, Transphobia, Suicide, Grief, and Car accident

baponthecob's review

dark hopeful mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

I really wasn't connected to the friend group as a whole, but as individuals, Ever was my favorite and I related the most to Maddy. I really did not care about Carter at all, and I hated Liva with a passion. Her head was so far up her own ass that she could probably taste her breakfast. I understand that she was conditioned to be that way by her parents, but at some point she is responsible for her own actions, especially when her friends wanted to help. Finn was done so dirty by her. I got tired of her classism and ableism so quick. Also transphobia??? Really out of left field. Like she is a cis straight rich white girl out here belittling her queer, trans, and disabled friends who are not as well off 😟 and then had the audacity to say she still cared about them 😟 and that they made her do what she did bc they tried to be more than they should 😟 please get some help
And after all that, we've got Ever still feeling bad. They have so much compassion for everyone else and I love them for it, but they really need to care about themself too :( and that's where  the book takes us at the end. Freshly realized morals, taking one step at a time, all that cheesy shit.
Overall, I liked how this book discussed friendship and how some things may not last. The main message at the end was a little bittersweet but still hopeful. But it was just VERY in-your-face, which really took me out of the story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Blood, Drug abuse, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, and Violence

Moderate: Car accident, Chronic illness, Ableism, Fire/Fire injury, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Hate crime, Self harm, and Transphobia

denki_kinnie_'s review

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Death, Murder, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Ableism and Transphobia