Reviews tagging 'Acephobia/Arophobia'

A Toca das Raposas by Nora Sakavic

14 reviews

riccii's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

3.5

It's been a while since I read these books. The writing is not amazing and it has a lot of faults. AND YET I devoured this within about 24 hours. I do appreciate the fact that this book mostly sets up the next two books. I like these early iterations of the characters less, but also that is the point, to see how they develop over the series. Especially

Andrew on his meds

is just much less appealing to me as a character, compared to later in the series. 

This does mean that I'm looking forward to the next book(s)! 

I do have to say, that the writing definitely already picks up towards the end of the book, from

the showdown at the tv show

on you already get a good idea of what the next two books are going to look like, as far as character dynamics go.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Acephobia/Arophobia, Addiction, Drug use, Alcohol, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Death of parent, Child abuse, Death, Sexual assault, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

_persephone's review against another edition

dark funny fast-paced

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

4.25

neil shit-talking riko

at the end is half the reason i'll be reading the next book. get his ass!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Alcohol, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Drug use

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Acephobia/Arophobia, and Suicide

viivacious's review against another edition

emotional hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

I greatly enjoyed this, though it was a bit hard to read at times.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Acephobia/Arophobia, Alcohol, Addiction, and Sexual harassment

jjnich's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Biphobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Cursing, Hate crime, Homophobia, Medical trauma, Acephobia/Arophobia, Addiction, Blood, Child abuse, Drug use, Drug abuse, Misogyny, Grief, Murder, and Violence

star_witch's review against another edition

dark funny tense

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

4.0

I loved it. 

Seth's death was a plot device. Change my mind. You can't cause I'm right.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Death, and Child abuse

Moderate: Acephobia/Arophobia, Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Abandonment, and Alcohol

camachoc's review against another edition

dark tense fast-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

5.0

I'm rereading this triology and i am having the time of my life. The writting is very basic, but nora sakavik really does  know what we readers want to read, and that's why this book is soooo fast pace. I was having a reading slump, and this series was just what i needed. Now I’m actually excited to continue my TBR!!!!
Most of the characters are/were fucked up. I mean…👀

Neil still remembered Kevin's breakdown […]

And this😌

“God damn it, Minyard. This is why we can't have nice  things”
“Oh, coach,” someone said over Neil’s  head. “If he was nice, he wouldn't be any use to us, would he?”
“He's no use to us if you break him”
“You'd rather i let him go? Put a band-aid on him and he'll be good as new ”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Torture, Sexual violence, Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, Cursing, Drug use, Homophobia, Mental illness, and Rape

Moderate: Addiction, Acephobia/Arophobia, and Self harm

Minor: Car accident, Child abuse, and Death of parent

wynterymess's review against another edition

dark emotional funny sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Acephobia/Arophobia, Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, Alcoholism, Body horror, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Body shaming, Child abuse, Cursing, Murder, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Violence, Gun violence, and Panic attacks/disorders

rose_reads_'s review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense 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

3.75

I didn't know anything about the book at the start but it was recommended to me so I decided to read it. It took a while for me to get into the story but by about half way through I was invested and wanted to know what happens. Do check the trigger warnings for this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Violence, Sexual violence, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Murder, Acephobia/Arophobia, and Vomit

gracefully_jk's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

4.25

A friend censored the particularly violent parts for me, which I appreciate greatly. The sports part made me think of Haikyuu and I’m sure I’ll be just as obsessed with this series as that!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcohol, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Violence, Bullying, Drug use, Medical content, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Mental illness, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Acephobia/Arophobia, Child abuse, Torture, and Vomit

fanboyriot's review against another edition

dark emotional funny 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

Read For:

Gay Sports

Hurt/Comfort

Chaotic Gays

Found Family

College Setting

This book is addictive and all things chaotic from the characters to the plot.  While it is filled with problems and poor choices it’s such a comfort series that I couldn’t imagine not re-reading it time and time again.

While there isn’t much that happens in this book (compared to the other two in the series) this book gets the setting out in place, you get to know the characters and no I have no idea why Nicky is so damn creepy in this book but trust me he gets better in the other two books.

It’s fun re-reading this series because you can see the slow burn settle in while if you’re reading this for the first time you’ll be just as confused and oblivious as Neil.  It’s truly amazing.

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ (5/5)

Release Date: 15, January 2013

POV: Third Person

Spice: n/a

Rep: Gay (SC), BIPOC (SCs), Mental illness (everyone)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Child abuse, Gore, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Grief, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Cursing, Death, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Addiction and Abandonment

Minor: Acephobia/Arophobia, Murder, Religious bigotry, Hate crime, Misogyny, Rape, Vomit, Gun violence, and Pedophilia