Reviews tagging 'Panic attacks/disorders'

Breakaway by Grace Reilly

38 reviews

readwithria's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted 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? It's complicated

3.0

Breakaway was cute, and sweet, and spicy, but it wasn’t quite what I was hoping for.

First of all, this book is SO LONG! I’m not usually one to say that a book could have been shorter, but I think this one could have. There are so many spicy scenes, and they don’t all do things for the characters or the story. Some of them definitely could have been cut, or montaged, and nothing would have been amiss. Even with how long it was though, it felt like it wrapped up too quickly. I wanted more resolution, and a more meaningful epilogue.

Now that that’s out of the way, it wasn’t a bad book. I liked Penny and Cooper, and their relationship. I also really liked the therapy rep, and think it was fine quite well. 

Overall I think this book was cute, but not well constructed. A good palette cleanse, but nothing exceptional. 3 stars

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Cursing

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Mental illness

Minor: Alcoholism, Death of parent, Alcohol, Blood, Sexual assault, and Violence

madicastle's review against another edition

emotional funny sad medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Addiction, Mental illness, Sexual content, Death of parent, and Sexual assault

mads_ione's review against another edition

lighthearted relaxing

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Addiction and Sexual assault

Minor: Death of parent

avidreaderandgeekgirl's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted 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? It's complicated

4.5

    Cooper, the college hockey player who's never had a serious relationship, and Penny, whose only serious boyfriend betrayed her. Hook-up and then they try to work on Penny's sexual to-do list to deal with her past trauma. But as they work through the list, they both start to catch serious feelings for one another.
     This book was quite steamy! Just the way I like romance, but also dealt with past trauma and mental health. It was a great balance of serious, funny, and spicy! Though a bit on the sad side at times for a college romance.
    Overall, an excellent book.

Narrator(s) Ratings: 5 stars
   Both narrators did an amazing job. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Mental illness, Sexual harassment, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexual content

Moderate: Grief, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Violence, Cursing, Blood, Bullying, Sexual assault, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Vomit, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual assault, Alcoholism, Addiction, Car accident, Death of parent, Body shaming, Cancer, and Drug abuse

The toxic relationship, emotional abuse, and gaslighting are not in the main romantic relationship but with some of the MC's family members.

amylouisereads's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted 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

I loved this, the characters were great, it was realistic and no 80% breakup! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Addiction

Minor: Addiction, Sexual harassment, and Emotional abuse

kay_chan's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Alcoholism, Car accident, and Panic attacks/disorders

ambercunningham's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted fast-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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Gaslighting, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Addiction, and Alcoholism

Minor: Car accident

kb33's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Panic attacks/disorders, and Alcohol

Minor: Cancer, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, and Addiction

ciara_fs98's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

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

4.0

This is an amazing story. The author does a great job of writing about traumatic/triggering subjects 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Blood, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Alcoholism, Car accident, Cancer, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Grief

Sexual trauma - being recorded without consent

njh_books's review against another edition

emotional hopeful medium-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? No

3.0

Enjoyed it, but maybe a bit less than the first book in the series.

 

These are smutty books, but this one was basically smut every other chapter. At some points it was like--do you all breathe? I understand sexuality and reclaiming sexual pleasure was a bit part of this book, but sometimes I would have rather seen a scene between Cooper and Penny rather than just the text messages back and forth.

Cooper is a big teddy bear. Penny is sweet until you mess with her and then she will burn you.

Does Richard hate all his kids? Had issues with James and now has issues with Cooper, and drives him to his toxic uncle. The toxic uncle storyline felt kind of slapped on.

Sandra is still 10/10 and enjoyed getting some Bex & James scenes.

Handled revenge porn/nonconsensual pornography well and Cooper was so patient and loving.

I'm pretty sure based off the last line of the book that Book #3 will be all about Seb & Mia getting together...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Alcohol, Death of parent, and Grief

Minor: Addiction