Reviews tagging 'Panic attacks/disorders'

The Last Time We Say Goodbye by Cynthia Hand

8 reviews

rachelelsya's review against another edition

reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

Finally read this book after a very loooong time in my TBR! You need to look up for TW thoo

3 stars but doesn't mean it's bad. It's just–this book is talking about losing someone important and how you try to survive the grief after that. It's a really heavy book for me. Books can impact my real life feeling so I feel hurt and sad when reading Lex's story. 

This book attacked my emotions although the writing was simple, not poetic or anything but the way it talks from Lex's pov is good (bc it hit me to the core). 

I almost cried, I could really cry but mostly I read it in a public area soooo— however, I seemly to intrigued by the romance aspect from this story. Such a classic high school romance but it was nice to see Lex not just feeling grieving. The friendship topic is good too. 

Also, the way it builds to how we discovered how Ty went away was the one keeps me interested (a touch of mystery but yeah)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Grief, Death, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Blood, Child death, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Cursing, Emotional abuse, and Alcohol

Cheating, Divorced, Therapy,

rayne_1906's review against another edition

emotional sad slow-paced

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

3.75

Audiobook - 5 hours 18 minutes - I thought this was a good representation of teen suicide - it wasn't oversensationalised, and I liked how it wasn't caused by a simplistic list of reasons, like in other media I could name. The perspective of an older sister was interesting to read from, the way she blamed it on herself even though she didn't know the reason why her brother took his own life. However, there were some parts that fell a little flat to me - I wasn't too keen on the subplot with Sadie talking about ghosts. I was scared that the book would lean into this too much, bordering on paranormal, which impacted my enjoyment of the book somewhat, but I am glad that that wasn't the way it was written.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Child death

Moderate: Alcohol, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, and Drug use

dattk's review

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicide, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Infidelity

shannanigans92's review

emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Grief, Death, Suicide, Panic attacks/disorders, and Child death

Moderate: Alcohol and Drug use

Minor: Cursing, Excrement, Blood, Bullying, Car accident, and Vomit

elecmod's review

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Blood, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Alcohol

msaturnine's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad 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

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Vomit, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Gun violence, Grief, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Cursing, Child death, Blood, Alcohol, and Abandonment

jayoz15's review

challenging emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.5

Reading about grief is never easy to do. Sometimes it brings up feelings that you want to avoid. I think Cynthia Hand did a great job at showing Lex struggling with the death of her brother, and shows all the stages she goes through. As a reader, it was as if I was experiencing the same pain that she was. However, this is not rated higher for me just because it took so long to get into the story. I was probably 50% of the way into the book before it really got going for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Panic attacks/disorders, and Grief

Moderate: Death

bookcaptivated's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Gun violence, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, and Death

Moderate: Alcoholism, Blood, and Vomit

Minor: Animal death and Death of parent