Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Do You Dream of Terra-Two? by Temi Oh

35 reviews

kit's review

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Car accident

sarah984's review

dark emotional slow-paced

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

2.0

This book was way too slow and boring for me - the first really exciting to occur in the book happened around the 76% mark. Most of the book was just the teen characters arguing and complaining about everything. It doesn't make sense to me that any of these people were cleared to fly. They all have extremely obvious issues, their personalities clash constantly (they will have to live together in a confined space for 23 years!) and they always seem to take the opportunity to make a bad decision. The religious aspects were also really off-putting to me, and it's weird how the writing leans so hard into psychological issues but always seems to shy away from racism and colonialism when they come up.

There were a few quotes I liked (plus the one exciting thing and a couple of the adult characters) but it's not enough to ever recommend this to anyone.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, and Grief

Moderate: Ableism, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

Minor: Racism

sabrinamc's review

adventurous emotional sad tense slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Suicide, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual content, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

perditorian's review

dark reflective tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Mental illness, and Suicide

Moderate: Bullying and Eating disorder

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders

caseythereader's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful tense slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

England is about to send the first manned mission to Terra-Two and found the first interstellar colony. The crew of the Damocles is made up of several seasoned senior astronauts, and under them is a crew of six teenagers who began training singlemindedly for this moment as children and were chosen from among hundreds of hopefuls for this mission. With the available technology, they will reach Terra-Two in 23 years. But, of course, things immediately begin to go wrong. 

I absolutely could not put DO YOU DREAM OF TERRA-TWO? down. The book has an uneasy atmosphere and I was immediately drawn in. Each character was compelling in a different way, and I felt actually stressed when things went wrong for them. 

I won't get too much into the plot since things take a turn pretty early on. I'll just say if you like books about people having FEELINGS in SPACE and commentary on the ethics of interstellar space travel, give this book a try. 

Content warnings: suicide, eating disorder, physical abuse, emotional abuse, cancer, attempted murder, hallucinations. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Suicide