Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks

29 reviews

lildookz's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Drug use, Eating disorder, Grief, Addiction, Alcoholism, Mental illness, Abandonment, Death, Drug abuse, and Suicide

lilacwhisker's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Eating disorder, Addiction, and Suicide

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Bullying, and Death of parent

Minor: Alcohol and Abortion

chemical_crash's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Abortion, Addiction, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Medical content, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Cursing, Death, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Violence, Alcoholism, Body horror, Body shaming, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Vomit, and Toxic friendship

addyson_raelynn's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective 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

4.5

I don’t really have a lot of words to describe my thoughts on this book yet. But I did thoroughly enjoy my time reading it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, and Rape

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, and Grief

Minor: Abortion

swearwords's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense fast-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

5.0

Oh my god this book is probably one of my new favorites. Usually I'm the kind of person who reads a quick meet cute rom-com but this book intrigued me when I saw it on the banned books table at Barnes and Noble, and sucked me in deeper when I saw it was in a diary format. There's something so much more intimate about it being a diary that also left an air of mystery since there were things being left out and background information we weren't told about. Despite the ending of this book, I love the message it has and the power of the story. It was a realistic ending and the main character's multiple relapses with drug abuse just shows that this isn't a quick detour on her road to happiness, it consumed her life. From the lack of updates in the journal to the shorter entries, this book did such a heartbreaking but breathtaking job of depicting drug addition in teens.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Addiction, Sexual assault, Death, and Eating disorder

whiterabbitslibrary's review against another edition

challenging dark funny mysterious fast-paced

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

2.5

As a book this wasn't great, but when you take into account the history and mythos surrounding it it's quite intriguing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Mental illness, Self harm, Drug abuse, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Suicide, and Sexual content

Moderate: Homophobia

sweetchocolatez's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Addiction, Forced institutionalization, Death, and Mental illness

Moderate: Bullying

Minor: Rape and Sexual assault

quills4days's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Bullying, Forced institutionalization, Addiction, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Toxic friendship, Body shaming, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Eating disorder, Biphobia, Homophobia, Incest, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, and Trafficking

Minor: Alcoholism, War, Alcohol, Racial slurs, Abortion, and Suicidal thoughts

vixenreader's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-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

1.5

The text is not an authentic text. It is written by someone who has no idea what real addiction looks like. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Adult/minor relationship, Suicide attempt, Homophobia, Addiction, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Lesbophobia, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Trafficking, Alcohol, Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Death, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Drug use, Dysphoria, Outing, Sexism, Physical abuse, Racism, Self harm, Sexual assault, and Suicidal thoughts

If you have ever struggled with addiction, pick another book to read. Pick one that captures addiction in a compassionate way.

gavinneedham's review against another edition

dark 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

1.75

Don’t read this book, it is not good. This is 200 pages of conservative puritanical backlash to the hippies. How they ever got away with marketing this as nonfiction I don’t know. The plot is so badly devised and unrealistic. The narrator is one of the most annoying in fiction.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Addiction, Fatphobia, Drug use, Body shaming, Eating disorder, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Self harm, Sexual violence, Forced institutionalization, Rape, Homophobia, Ableism, Trafficking, Injury/Injury detail, and Mental illness

Read at your own risk. Problematic in every sense of the word.