Reviews tagging 'Panic attacks/disorders'

Alas de sangre by Rebecca Yarros

33 reviews

thisgirlreads_yay's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Violence, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders

_shaybiebaybee's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

2.0

Throughout the entire book I wondered if Rebecca Yarros had ever even considered getting Fourth Wing professionally edited. There are about seven phrases repeated ad nauseam in this book, which I may have noticed only because I was listening to the audiobook, but I honestly think I would have noticed it in print too. This was very annoying. 
Repetitive things I did not enjoy:
- mentions of gold flecks
- "good point" "fair point" "s/he has a point" (you could make a dangerous drinking game with this one)
-

Tairn is the mOsT pOwErFuL dRaGoN or any other reason why

no one really wants to mess with Violet
- mentions of brows doing things. 
- Mentions of "he gave me [such and such look that makes her horny] but noooo we aren't thinking about that right now"

This book is like if someone took Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series, removed the good worldbuilding, added even more racist stereotypes, combined it with the Divergent style revolution (not the well thought out Hunger Games one), got the sex scenes written by a Gena Showalter wannabe, then threw it in the dryer on high to felt. Like yeah I guess it was entertaining but it was kind of like a train wreck. Like others have said, this feels ripped right from wattpad. 

I will be reading the next book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Panic attacks/disorders, and Grief

Minor: Vomit

grayscale08's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious tense 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body shaming, Chronic illness, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Xenophobia, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Classism

Minor: Ableism, Animal death, Child death, Drug use, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Vomit, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

my_aesthetic_is_books's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny sad tense fast-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: Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Murder, and War

Moderate: Body horror, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Bullying

isaile's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Gore, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Grief, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Hate crime, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Vomit, and Alcohol

anilein's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious sad tense 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: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, War, and Injury/Injury detail

tuc39033's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

sabrinz's review against another edition

emotional funny sad medium-paced

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

3.5

To be fair, the book had me at dragons - and I'm happy to say there is a good amount of dragons in this book.

The story follows Violet, daughter of the infamous General Sorrengail, who is forced by her mother to become a dragon rider (and not as she intended a scribe like her father). Forced to go through the cruel and deadly school for dragon riders, Violet's life gets a lot more difficult. But her quick wit and empathy help her make some good friends who'll stand by her side (and she may even make friends she had not expected).

I liked the fact that Violet was not the typical heroin who was caught between two men - she was quite capable of deciding that one of them would suffocate her (despite how much he might like her). Although she could be somewhat annoying in how often she repeated how hot a certain someone was. There was also one scene towards the end where I was expecting a catastrophe, but Violet surprised me again by remaining level-headed (as much as was possible in this situation).

The end throws a curve ball at you and there are SO MANY questions left unanswered. But most of all I would like to know what happened to the rest of Fourth Wing!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Violence, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Murder and War

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders and Death of parent

sofia_mso's review

adventurous challenging inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Death, Genocide, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, and Toxic friendship

rachelrisseeuw's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring tense 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: Bullying, Death, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, and War

Moderate: Gore, Torture, Grief, Murder, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders and Vomit