Reviews tagging 'Panic attacks/disorders'

The Long Way Home by Jessa Hastings

11 reviews

folded_between_pages_of_books's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage

Moderate: Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Toxic friendship, Car accident, Death, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Drug use, and Panic attacks/disorders

emmaasbokhylla's review against another edition

emotional funny sad tense medium-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: Abortion, Alcohol, Car accident, Death, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, Drug use, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Self harm, Toxic friendship, Pregnancy, and Child death

headinthepages's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Violence, Vomit, Abandonment, Alcohol, Car accident, Child death, Sexual violence, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy

iemilia's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense medium-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

Please check trigger warnings before picking up this book.

I’m glad I didn’t give up on this series. The first book was okay, I enjoyed it but wasn’t overly impressed. The second book, Daisy Haites, was not for me. Didn’t like the writing style and found it difficult to connect with the characters. This book however exceeded all of my expectations. I loved seeing glimpses from the early days of Magnolia and BJ relationship, their past, all of it. It was an emotional rollercoaster and the ending.. gosh. In a way this book made me want to re-read the first book. 5⭐️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Death, Infidelity, Pregnancy, Car accident, Miscarriage, Alcohol, and Child death

savbowmer's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Blood, Emotional abuse, Rape, Medical trauma, Violence, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Alcohol, Vomit, Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, Infidelity, Cursing, Alcoholism, Miscarriage, and Grief

isabel_hanna's review

dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted 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

This book had me in a CHOKEHOLD!!! Close to 700 pages and it wasn’t long enough. Why don’t I hate these characters?? I literally don’t know. Why am I rooting for them? Couldn’t tell you. 

Their back and forth should drive me crazy and it doesn’t. This book is magic. I think I love it more than I loved the first. It gives so much more context to these very complex people. I never reread books and now I want to reread book 1 knowing what I know now. This book was perfection. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, and Car accident

kenzieburke's review against another edition

emotional sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Death, and Panic attacks/disorders

midnight_rose_reads's review

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home is the third book in the Magnolia Parks Universe. It picks up a year after the events of the first book. Magnolia is living in New York after the dramatic events of the end of the first book. She comes home for her father’s wedding.  BJ has been in therapy to work on his issues and hopefully to win Magnolia back. While she’s in London for the wedding she gets a job offer from Tatler  to be their new style editor. She accepts and she and BJ try to navigate their way back to each other.

This was another emotional installment in this series. Big secrets and revelations about Magnolia and BJ’s past get brought to light making you look at the first book very differently. There are once again beautiful passages about their love for one another and how they view their relationship. However, I believe this book is a bit too long. I think it would have been much tighter paced had it had 100 pages or so shaved off. As it was, some things felt very repetitive, such a scenarios and/or phrases. Other than that, it’s another solid edition to the series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Toxic friendship, Child death, Medical content, Death, Grief, Cursing, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Medical trauma, Rape, Sexual assault, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders

toofondofbooks_'s review against another edition

emotional reflective sad 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

5.0

Another roller coaster of a book from the Magnolia Parks Universe and while I am extremely emotionally compromised (Jessa, I'll be sending you my therapy bills <3) I cannot say that I am disappointed. When I say I'm emotionally compromised, I mean it, like, I'm not going to sleep tonight, in all likelihood, and if I didn't care about spacing these books out so that they last me longer, I would be picking up Jessa's latest immediately. HOWEVER I'm going to exercise self control and just continue crying and singing the praises of these dumbass characters that I love way too much for my own good. I don't know if this is so much a review as it is just me having a mental breakdown....but I'm going to try and write something actually constructive. 

I love how much more in depth BJ and Magnolia were explored as characters, particularly the focus on the shared trauma they've been through as well as individual traumas. I feel like prior to this book neither of them really looked their problems in the eye and saw shit for what it was but they started to make some headway in that department here and I was thrilled to see it. Sure, it was messy as well, but doesn't that make it more delicious? 

bj ballentine you are my beloved and you are so important btw *blows a kiss for him*

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Grief, Medical content, Miscarriage, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Sexual content, Classism, Infidelity, Cursing, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, and Violence

Minor: Death of parent

lyla_wicks's review against another edition

emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.25

really loved the first part of this book, and the ending absolutely stunned me, but i do think that it got a tiny bit repetitive during the second part. didn’t really like how everyone treated jordan, but i do understand that that was to show flawed characters. so in love with this universe, and can’t wait to figure out what’s going on (also adored the daisy and christian snippets throughout it)!!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, and Panic attacks/disorders