Reviews tagging 'Self harm'

Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel by Val Emmich

30 reviews

greenlivingaudioworm's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Death, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, and Self harm

Moderate: Abandonment and Drug use

kaylasbookgram's review

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad 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

5.0

“That’s what happens when people leave, I think. When they’re gone, you don’t have to be reminded of all the bad things. They can just stay the way you want them forever. Perfect.”

This book was everything I expected and more. As someone who was a complete nobody in high school I related so much to both Evan and Connor. I understood why Evan did what he did. Because already being at the bottom of the food chain you don’t really want to feed more fuel for the bullies to use against you. I knew from seeing the trailer to the movie I needed to read the book and I knew I was going to cry and be slightly trigger from my rough high school days. I can’t wait to see how well the movie does at remaking this amazing book! 

TW: Bullying. Suicide. Attempt Suicide. Drugs. Alcohol. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Bullying, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Mental illness

Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, Addiction, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

fairy_internet's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Drug use, Grief, Mental illness, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Self harm

sofiajearally's review

dark emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

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

3.0

I'm biased because I've been obsessed with the broadway soundtrack for two years and was dying to see the musical (thanks Covid :))) : I'm giving the book three stars but I probably would have rated it lower if it had been my first introduction to the story. I was super disappointed.
I found the writing dry and, without Ben Platt's voice, Evan was not endearing to me at all. My favorite parts ended up being Connor's points of view. However, the end of the epilogue was gorgeous.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, and Self harm

Moderate: Suicide, Addiction, Drug abuse, and Drug use

littlefreckles's review

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, Death, Grief, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Self harm

jstarshine16's review

challenging emotional funny informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Cursing, Death, Grief, Suicide, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicide attempt, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Addiction, and Medical content

Minor: Alcohol, Racism, Misogyny, Sexism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual harassment, and Stalking

sierra_rose23's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted sad medium-paced

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

4.5

I read this book awhile back after being obsessed with the musical and at the time I absolutely loved it. I still do. Knowing about the musical itself made the book even better, for I got to understand all of the characters back stories, but that being said, I don’t think you really need to know about the musical before reading this read. (Though if you do read this, listen to the soundtrack, it makes everything better). I’m a huge mental health advocate, and this book was one of those reads that’s filled with all kinds of mental health problems which I’m sucker for when it comes to learning about and educating. I believe that the authors (multiple) did a great job at describing some of these thoughts that are showcased. That being said, after reading other more big level books I started realizing how little the writing was. It was more basic level, so if you were wanting bigger level big words and metaphors, this might not be the book for you. (Though it does have a few good big sentences that really resonated with me). 
Overall I still love this book today and think it was a great read and great storyline and really told a good story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Self harm

I read this book such a long time ago, so if got my content warning tags wrong I apologize.

audriss's review

emotional tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

hannahmayhere's review

Got to page 68. Too triggering with content of suicide and suicidal thoughts. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Depression, anxiety

halfwaytoaugust's review

emotional funny lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

• Loveable characters? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Self harm, Drug use, and Drug abuse