Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Do You Dream of Terra-Two? by Temi Oh

35 reviews

stayshomeandreads's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Vomit, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

girasol's review against another edition

adventurous reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Blood

Moderate: Eating disorder, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cancer and Car accident

nyoom's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Colonisation

Moderate: Incest

Minor: Ableism, Infidelity, Xenophobia, and Antisemitism

macthekat's review against another edition

The way the book handled depression was heavy handed if not outright harmful - frankly I was surprised that it was YA

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness

Depression

cerilouisereads's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Suicide, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Body horror, Bullying, Chronic illness, Confinement, Eating disorder, Terminal illness, Grief, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Cancer, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Sexual content, Car accident, and Acephobia/Arophobia

yaelaed's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Suicide

Moderate: Bullying, Confinement, and Mental illness

Minor: Eating disorder

cleo_wylde's review

adventurous challenging dark hopeful mysterious tense 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? It's complicated

4.0

Terra-Two - a distant planet 23 years of travel away, which young teenagers compete frantically to land on. But space is cold and unforgiving and the type of perfectionist, ambitious, striving people who make it there have flaws too, and that's very much the case for these young adults.
I really enjoyed the writing style, but this feels unfinished to me - I want to read a follow-up!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Mental illness, Suicide, Vomit, and Medical content

Moderate: Confinement and Sexual content

rainbowshelves's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• 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

Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Suicide, and Medical content

katieconrad's review

challenging tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, and Grief

Moderate: Cancer, Eating disorder, and Terminal illness

Minor: Car accident

imrereads's review

adventurous emotional hopeful tense slow-paced

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

4.0

This wasn't what I thought it was going to be, but I found myself sucked into the stort nevertheless. The biggest way it diverged from my expectations is that it's very much a character-driven books, rather than plot-driven. 

There's quite a diverse cast of characters, many whom I loved and a few which I very much disliked (looking at you, Harry). 

While at it's heart this is a stoey about reaching this utopian planet Terra-Two, a more thsn two dacade long journey away, it's much more and much less than that. All these different characters with all their conplexities and flaws gets their moment in the spotlight. As the main characters are very young, there's very much 'young drama' as well, which sometimes felt a bit meh (to me as an adult), but I had a great time in this story. I didn't think I was going to be all that invested in the beginning, but by the end I was very emotional. 

If you're looking for a character-driven sci-fi and don't mind inaccurate and (what I completely unedcuatedly assume is) somewhat unrealistic space travel history, you might just love this! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cancer, Confinement, Death, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Suicide, and Grief

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Violence, Vomit, and Medical content

Minor: Car accident