Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Restore Me by Tahereh Mafi

4 reviews

abicaro17's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.5

Honestly other than the end, this book was a snooze. I'm not sure I could tell you anything that happened that was super significant. I adore Juliette but this entire book was just like a backtrack from the last one. Warner has seemed to evolve so thats cool. I'm hoping the next book is better. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

lozzo_bozo's review against another edition

funny mysterious 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, Child abuse, Deadnaming, Transphobia, and Alcohol

kynthebookworm'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

5.0

This was a roller coaster of emotions and the plot was just so good

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Religious bigotry, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Child abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Alcohol, and War

Minor: Alcoholism, Bullying, Torture, Toxic relationship, Islamophobia, Kidnapping, Grief, and Alcohol

zc2's review against another edition

dark emotional funny lighthearted sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

The ending. Jaw dropping. Leaves me wanting to finish the whole series can’t wait to read the novella after this.

I can’t decide if I like her parents or not they like  Annihilated  her friends at the end they bring her home and act like nothing changed and they have the audacity to use her birth name and be like “ oh honey dinner is getting cold come down stairs and eat” whilst she’s in power restraining binds.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, and War