Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

118 reviews

bookerbride's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Self harm, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Toxic friendship and Death of parent

Minor: Vomit

annnakane's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Medical content, Mental illness, Car accident, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

acasiamae's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Self harm, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Car accident, Vomit, and Suicidal thoughts

hecticglow's review

emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Slow to start but as soon as I got into it didn't put it down. A classic John Green story with a flawed main character, loveable friends, kind love interest and a mystery Intertwined throughout. Really felt for the character throughout and her journey through this time in her life. Mental health and the struggles not swept under the rug but spotlighted as well as the impact it can have on those around you.

the ending was one that felt very real and brought me peace but I worried it wouldn't in the lead up. Hearing that her battles continue but she will lead a life and somewhat "go on" through it all brought me a lot of hope in the end

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, and Grief

Minor: Car accident

tiffyd's review

hopeful mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Self harm, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Toxic friendship, and Car accident

giuliana_ferrari's review

challenging dark emotional informative 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

3.75

As always, John Green is able to make teenagers seem relatable even to people who have long past their adolescence. I can't say I wasn't expecting a bit more development on the investigation part of the story, but it's clear that this was just a decoy to talk about mental illness, compulsive and intrusive thoughts, and losing people you care about. The characters are flawed and selfish and stupid and therefore, human. A sad read, but one you can pick up in just a couple of days.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm and Mental illness

Moderate: Death of parent and Medical content

Minor: Gore, Car accident, and Suicidal thoughts

audriew9's review

emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

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

3.5

This book is great for a YA novel. The writing was a little on the nose and at times cheesy. However, if I read this at 16 I would have felt seen and for that this book is amazing. I love the OCD and anxiety representation and often this is not done well. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Mental illness

Moderate: Grief, Death of parent, Death, and Car accident

gzaborski's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

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

3.5

While I commend John Green for highlighting the often-neglected point of view a character with OCD might experience, I feel like the overly-philosophic and reflective nature of this novel contributes to characters that seem almost flat and underwhelming. While this may be in part due to the main characters self-centered pov

(addressed in the conflict with Daisy), it also keeps me from being truly invested in anything other than Aza’s self-image, which doesn’t really change much throughout the book (not that it has to in order to be good, but it would be nice to have some change in either internal or external dynamics).

  I really found the depiction of OCD via writing style effective though.

Aza, the main character, is compelling, but the book either feels too short or just incomplete in drawing a full picture of Aza,

and the use of the weird over-used framing method in the final chapter of “writing down and learning from your past” frustrated me.

Strong ideas and pov, interesting relationships, but overall just slightly off.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Self harm

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Suicide

squatruhh's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Addiction, Alcohol, Car accident, Death, Grief, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

jesse_5's review

challenging dark emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Mental illness, Medical content, Car accident, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Vomit and Suicidal thoughts