Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

If This Gets Out by Sophie Gonzales, Cale Dietrich

17 reviews

elliott_the_clementine's review against another edition

Review on another edition. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Homophobia, Medical content, Child abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Biphobia, Car accident, Mental illness, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, and Outing

Minor: Suicide

miss__manga__'s review against another edition

emotional inspiring slow-paced

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

4.0

Loved the plot but it felt like something was lacking. The ending left a lot to be desired. I felt like it was very weak and not the right place to end it - I don’t mind an open ending but it wasn’t incredibly satisfying. 

I feel like I did not know all the characters, such as Jon and Angel, but even Zach and Reuben to some degree.

There were some wonderful moments and I cried once, but overall something felt like it was lacking.

I keep moving between a 3 and 4 star review.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Addiction, and Alcohol

Moderate: Homophobia and Mental illness

queerloras's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Car accident, Sexual content, Biphobia, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Racism, Abandonment, Gaslighting, Addiction, Drug use, Homophobia, and Mental illness

katrina_5's review against another edition

challenging funny 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

I truly enjoyed this book, I loved reading how Zacks character came to terms with his sexuality and how he developed throughout the book.
The bands friendship worked really well together, relationships within this book were really well thought out and written. 

However,  the reason I deducted a .5 was due to the lack of concern over Angel, I feel his addiction was overlooked and made his relationships between everyone in the band seem worthless. No one ensured his safety until he was far to gone. Furthermore, his recovery was glazed over - I would've loved more detail over how that impact him and the band mates especially since most situations he was joking about the love interests. 
Another fault was within a Zacks dynamic with his mother, she is comforting and open yet when he comes out she compares him to his father who had little relevance within the story. It felt like a poor choice - yes not every one has a nice coming out story, but this felt like they felt the need to make another plot for drama within a book which has a dramatic theme from the beginning.

Overall, I feel this book was well written and thought out. I truly enjoyed the romance, I'd recommend to anyone interested.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Drug abuse, Alcoholism, Homophobia, Drug use, Addiction, Mental illness, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Car accident, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, and Blood

Minor: Outing

lara_08's review against another edition

emotional inspiring

1.75

The book was cute but th relationships between the characters could be better written.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Mental illness, Outing, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

august__'s review against another edition

emotional lighthearted

• 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: Drug abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Alcohol, and Emotional abuse

taleofabibliophile's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Outing, Alcohol, Drug use, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Cursing, Homophobia, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Addiction, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Confinement, Vomit, Sexual content, and Car accident

Minor: Abandonment and Racism

CW: Forced closeting/

markedwithanm's review

emotional funny lighthearted fast-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, and Homophobia

zoemain's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

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

2.75

I did like the concept. However, the characters have 0 variety. Ruben and Zach were so painfully similar that I couldn’t differentiate between their POVs as I was reading. Also, the miscommunication between the boys was dragged on for too long. (The pair only started having proper discussions within the last two chapters.) So if miscommunication is a pet peeve of yours, I would stray away from this book without a second thought. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Car accident, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, and Mental illness

amibo's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring 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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Drug abuse, and Mental illness