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Solitaire by Alice Oseman

53 reviews

codingclownofficial's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Homophobia, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, and Vomit

Minor: Toxic relationship, Stalking, and Outing

_pauline's review against another edition

3.5

while I didn’t enjoy the actual solitaire-storyline that much, I just love tori & having an entire book focused on her character. also- alice wrote this at 17??

edit:
1. I think you have to somewhat relate to this book in order to like it
2. (re)reading the quotes in some of the reviews makes me think I should give this a higher rating

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Bullying, Self harm, Violence, and Vomit

dielilla's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Mental illness, and Self harm

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: Vomit

delz's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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

4.5

Going into this 260 page book I thought this will be a quick read. ABSOLUTELY NOT! Tori Spring, who is Charlie Spring’s older sister is a depressed teenager. She is self loathing, and many time’s self destructive with thoughts of self harm. She becomes obsessed with the mystery of Solitaire, a mysterious person/persons terrorizing the school. As Tori’s friend, Michael points out, though all the the “pranks” relate back to her. Tori is fumbling through her life, not sleeping, worrying about solitaire and messing up her relationships with friends and the one boy, Michael who seems genuinely to care about her. This is the ultimate angst filled ya novel, written at the time by an actual teenager. Alice Oseman definitely knew what she was doing though and the characters  come across real and sympathetic. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Bullying, Vomit, and Alcohol

robinks's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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

4.75

As someone who read/watched Heartstopper first, I always appreciated Tori’s presence, but we never get to know what’s going on with her. Tori’s thoughts and feelings as she’s working through them are communicated very well. The last 70 pages flew by really quickly. I want to know what happens next!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Fire/Fire injury, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Eating disorder, Homophobia, Self harm, Violence, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol

Minor: Vomit and Injury/Injury detail

saraandherfilms's review against another edition

reflective fast-paced

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

3.0

Amo a Alice Oseman, pero creo que esta es la peor de todas sus novelas. Me han gustado detalles de ella, pero noto que falta mucho desarrollo de personaje en Tori y el resto de personajes. Me ha dejado una sensación agridulce. Se nota como Alice ha mejorado muchísimo su escritura desde que escribió este libro hasta sus últimas obras, hay una fuerte evolución.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Vomit

chasingpages1's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

Moderate: Stalking and Toxic friendship

Minor: Cursing, Gun violence, Vomit, Outing, and Injury/Injury detail

crunchycrystals's review against another edition

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Eating disorder and Self harm

Minor: Vomit

nindie's review against another edition

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? Yes

4.75

i started bawling my eyes at the end and i found this book to be relatable in a lot of scenarios, made me even more self-aware about how i feel and my interactions.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Hate crime, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Vomit and Alcohol

vercopaanir's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad tense 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? Yes

2.0

I’m not sure how I felt about this book.  Sure made me glad I’m not in high school anymore!  It was just kinda… weird to me.  It was like a mystery but also a story about mental illness (in fact it was incredibly mentally heavy, just as a warning to anyone interested) and friendship and being a teenager.  If you’ve read Alice Oseman’s other books you’ll recognize most of the characters, but the mood is apparently entirely different.  I have NOT yet read her other books, so I’m taking the author’s word for it.
For me the most intriguing part was the mystery of who Solitaire was, and the author seemed to do a decent job of dropping hints as well as a couple red herring (herrings? what’s the plural of herring?).
I also had mixed feelings about this audiobook version, because the narrator didn’t do much voice acting in terms of other characters.  When there was dialogue between two characters without dialogue tags, I couldn’t tell who was speaking because there weren’t distinct voices.  This isn’t a HUGE deal but definitely affected my understanding and enjoyment of the book at times.
Overall, it was okay, but not great and not likely one I’ll read again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Bullying, Eating disorder, Self harm, Violence, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Vomit and Stalking