Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter

61 reviews

josefina_na's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Drug use, Abortion, Suicidal thoughts, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic

This was one of the most depressing books I ever read. Please make sure to be in the right mood before diving into this book.

mollieweitzman's review against another edition

dark emotional slow-paced

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

3.0

This was decent. Definitely depressing about the future and the workforce in the way that you want to scream at the protagonists the whole time. Some really cool and beautiful metaphors that we love! A tiny bit boring/repetitive but a quick audiobook 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion and Mental illness

emmareads013's review

dark fast-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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion and Mental illness

rmcatalina's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Mental illness, and Abortion

iridescencedeep's review

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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? Yes

3.5

Deeply unsettling, in an impressive way. But not that enjoyable to read. This is just stylistic preference but there were a lot of comma-separated lists used to build atmosphere; didn’t love that at the beginning and was kind of tired of it by the end.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion, Mental illness, and Drug use

Minor: Suicide

cholliworth's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Drug use

takneeah_c28's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion, Mental illness, Pregnancy, and Drug abuse

erachelc's review

challenging dark emotional reflective tense 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Mental illness

Minor: Abortion

tajosima's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad 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? No

5.0

Chapter 21: I knew I had to buy this book.
The way I feel about this book is the way I felt about The Bell Jar when I read it when I was younger. Now I’m older and I have Ripe to describe how i feel

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Pregnancy, Pandemic/Epidemic, Excrement, Drug abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Classism, Blood, Abortion, Mental illness, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Drug use, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Infertility, Body shaming, Fatphobia, and Racism

jdunn1's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Addiction, Death, Drug use, Pregnancy, Self harm, Suicide attempt, and Abortion

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic