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frogwithafrog's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts
Moderate: Suicide
Minor: Car accident
epeolatrist's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
This book did a lot of things for me. After being unable to write for many months, I finally found it in me to add more to the stories that I've been working on for so long. Eliza inspired me to do that. Her devotion to Monstrous Sea made me realize how much I miss being passionate about my own creations. Francesca Zappia is an inspiring author--someone that I now look up to. If I could thank her for this book, I would a thousand times. This reminded me of how much I love books. That feeling keeps me going on my worst days.
Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, and Mental illness
Moderate: Suicide, Death of parent, and Car accident
jenminicricket's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders
Moderate: Car accident, Self harm, Suicide, Bullying, Death of parent, Grief, and Suicidal thoughts
simobae's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Eliza and Wallace
Eliza and Wallace's relationship was simple and sweet. A good display of first love and how to figure out flirting for the first time. I loved, how they both made mistakes and even with the fact that both of them struggled a lot with communication, they both tried to talk with each other about their feelings and respect each other's boundaries.
Eliza and her family:
At this point, I did have some problems with Eliza which is the only reason this was not a 5-star read. Eliza spends a lot of time complaining about her family and how they don't understand her, yet she also doesn't try to understand them. She sees her family as weirdos because they're into sports and she isn't, she sees her brothers as twins because they're a year apart and have similar interests.
Even though she spends so much time feeling like her family doesn't understand, she also doesn't try to let her parents understand, she just closes up every time her parents try to let her explain her online life.
Ending:
The character development at the end was well-executed and how it showed that it doesn't just happen from one day to the next but that it is work, that we as humans need to keep fighting against our monsters every day, but that we have to remember that we aren't fighting the fight alone.
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, Death of parent, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicide attempt
averyconfusedhomosapiensbooks's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Blood, Car accident, Grief, Mental illness, and Suicide
Moderate: Gore
Minor: Medical content
hapalyn's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Mental illness and Panic attacks/disorders
Moderate: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Cursing, Car accident, and Death of parent
Minor: Bullying and Injury/Injury detail
mezzoanddolce's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders
Moderate: Death of parent, Death, Car accident, and Grief
chickenlady's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Mental illness
Moderate: Death of parent and Suicide
Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Car accident
willowshelter's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Car accident, Suicide, and Panic attacks/disorders
inkyinsanity's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
ALL OF THEM
AND TISSUES
Ok
Words.
So.
This was beyond amazing. I cried through the last third of it. This is not a light book, and while I found the ending happy and really enjoyed reading it and laughed and marked lines, it’s also not a lighthearted book.
Eliza has severe social anxiety and, although the book names only the anxiety, she’s also very depressed.
I have never read such good representation of anxiety and depression. I mean, I probably have because I read so much I do forget a lot of it most of the time, but this was amazing in the way it voiced things I’ve thought almost word for word. The way it creeped into my mind and everything *clicked.*
I…
I think this might have genuinely helped me when I was a teenager. Maybe not, but. But. I waited so long to get treatment for myself when I knew I needed it and pretended so hard that I was making it all up that I actually started believing my own lies until things started going too far for what I could believe. And this. Is. Everything. This is IT.
I’m not making sense and I’m on too much of a book high to even care.
I’m looking at the cover of the book right now, at the little word bubble saying “her story is a phenomenon, her life is a disaster” and like.
Disaster?
That could have been me.
Not Eliza’s life, but her feelings. Her single focus, the one thing and maybe another thing on a good day that made it possible to do everything else, and still not be able to do enough to be like a person. To be anything other than vaguely functional. Go to school. Eat. Shut down your family when they try to talk you because you can’t let them know how bad it is inside you, and or because you already have to live through it and you’re sure as hell not going to talk about it and have to live through it *again* but you NEED them to see you and talk to you because you're dying and you're trapped and you don't know what to do.
You Find something (in her case, someone) you genuinely like, convince yourself you can be like a real person, you can have fun, you can fall in love, you can talk to people. Only to have everything crashing down by something that you can’t help, but what if you did things differently? Could you have stopped it? It doesn’t matter you were barely able to live, because that’s in the past and you’re in the now.
Because you don’t choose to be so stressed you can’t breathe, or so sad you feel sick. But it’s so, so hard to believe that and this book. Got. It.
Um, warnings of depression, anxiety, panic attacks, mentioned harassment, and suicidal thoughts.
On the bright side, the fandom rep was PERFECT and the bits of Eliza’s web comic that are shown are really cool!
Graphic: Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Car accident, Death of parent, Bullying, and Stalking