Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

As de picas by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

55 reviews

kaitlynbowron's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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: Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicide attempt, Violence, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Murder, Mental illness, Gun violence, Death of parent, Death, Car accident, Bullying, and Blood

biiianca's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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: Racial slurs, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, and Racism

Moderate: Car accident, Mental illness, and Outing

Minor: Death of parent, Suicide attempt, Violence, and Fire/Fire injury

lakuna's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious medium-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Panic attacks/disorders, Outing, Mental illness, Homophobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Bullying

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Sexual harassment, and Gaslighting

Minor: Classism, Death of parent, Death, and Drug use

liaandersson's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

I am beginning to understand the true depth of racism. The book gave me a lot of insight and made me realize how afraid I have been on the topic of racism. Every page gave me knowledge. Read this book!

Update: It has been a couple of months since I read it and I can tell all of you reading this review, hand to the heart, it is constantly in the back of my head. I have started my own journey towards becoming an anti-racist, and this book is one of the many reasons why. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Racism, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Physical abuse, Bullying, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, and Outing

Moderate: Car accident, Fatphobia, Death of parent, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, and Grief

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

blackandwhitejacket's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective 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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Homophobia, Mental illness, Murder, Outing, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Chiamaka’s gradual discovery of her own identity… so excellent. she would resonate with several of the points made on the Lesbian Masterdoc

emmasbookshelf27's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-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? It's complicated

4.5

extremely dark book. know that going in. The characters are so well developed. Probably the most well developed out of all the books I have read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Car accident, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Murder, Outing, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Violence

quinn_eats_rocks's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racism, Homophobia, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, and Car accident

Moderate: Racial slurs, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Outing, and Mental illness

jacobandthefrogs's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

Content warnings for racism, assault, and a lot of other smaller things you should definetly look at befote reading
This book is definently one of my contenders for book of the year, wow. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Car accident, Death, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Murder, and Physical abuse

bibeanenergy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective 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? It's complicated

3.75

A great mystery with interesting characters.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Racial slurs, Sexual harassment, Homophobia, and Murder

taelights's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

I really loved this book. I was so stressed towards the whole third part of the book but I had such a good time reading it. The mystery was so fucked up but fascinating and I was so deserperate the whole time to get to the end and find out all the answers. There were so many good twists to this mystery. Some of them I guessed while others genuinely surprised me. 

I adored both of the main characters. I felt so bad for them throughout the book and was constantly worried for their safety. 

Devon I loved from the start. He felt so real and I really enjoyed his characterization. I felt so bad for him throughout the book because he deserved so much better with everything in his life. My past self could also relate to some of his struggles relating to his sexuality. 

It took me awhile to come around to Chiamaka. I hated her at first because I usually hate "mean popular girl" type characters. But the more I learned about her and started to see her as more than that stereotype I began to really love her character and care about her a lot. 

Also I absolutely adored Terrell and enjoyed Andre's character as well. 

I loved the representation of having two gay and bi black teens as the main characters. Plus having a few prominent side characters also be black queer teens was also very refreshing. 

I really hope this author puts out more books in the future because I would love to read more by her especially if she hopefully writes more queer black main characters in the future. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Car accident, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Misogyny, Outing, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Torture, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent, Drug use, Murder, Police brutality, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt