Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Heel me by Tahereh Mafi, Sandra C. Hessels

18 reviews

annikenr's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Death, Abandonment, and Child abuse

Moderate: Torture, Racism, War, Suicide, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Self harm

loo_09's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny 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

4.75

Spoiler

THE ENDING PLEASE?? WARNER AND JULIETTE TOGETHER SINCE THE BEGINNING??

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Gun violence

Moderate: Death of parent and Abandonment

Minor: Child abuse and Suicidal thoughts

hayleythegoose's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Cursing, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Child abuse, Abandonment, Death of parent, Murder, Grief, Torture, Violence, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Vomit, War, Transphobia, and Sexual content

Minor: Gore, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Infertility, Infidelity, Cancer, and Alcoholism

akane_shio's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Confinement, Abandonment, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Kidnapping, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, and Violence

Minor: Grief, Islamophobia, Racism, Alcohol, Deadnaming, and Injury/Injury detail

taliatalksbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional 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? No

4.0

Restore Me by Tahereh Mafi was just as fast paced as the first three books in Juliette’s story. I love being able to see the other side, as well as the edition of Warner’s point of view. I feel like this book allows us more insight into both characters, and allows us to see Warner’s pure feelings. I also think these books are a great representation of mental illness, and living through them. This was a really fast and quick read, much like the other before it, and I’m really excited to see where this series goes from here! If you’ve enjoyed the first three in this series, it’s a safe bet you’ll enjoy this one, too!  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Panic attacks/disorders, and Mental illness

Moderate: Blood, Death, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Addiction

claire_fitzgibbon13's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? No

5.0

I continue to love this series. But god shits  about to get real real. THE ENDING. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Abandonment, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Alcoholism, Sexual content, War, and Alcohol

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

gullicksen31's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Transphobia, Abandonment, and Child abuse

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders

valreadssometimes's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

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

2.0

What did I just read?

The first half (if not more) of the book felt like white noise. I wasn’t really interested in Juliette and Warner and their relationship drama, which was made especially ridiculous by the fact that they’d only been dating around a month. Also, the “issues” Juliette is facing are kind of silly and mostly stem from her being an idiot thinking that the role of Supreme Commander would be easy. I had so much secondhand embarrassment from reading about her trying to be good at politics. 

The other half of the book was just confusing. Everything happened too quickly and things came out of nowhere, making me feel like I was either missing something or losing my mind. 

I’m not going to add any spoilers because I don’t even really know what was revealed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Gore, Torture, and Abandonment

Minor: Sexual content, Transphobia, Child abuse, Outing, and War

molly_rose's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Confinement, Racism, Sexism, Transphobia, Death, Gaslighting, Murder, Grief, Gun violence, Islamophobia, Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, and War

themoodreader's review against another edition

dark 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

Moderate: Death, Violence, Abandonment, Confinement, and Murder

Minor: Kidnapping, Death, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Genocide, Islamophobia, Gun violence, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Alcohol, Blood, Child abuse, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, and Transphobia