Reviews tagging 'Death'

Solitaire by Alice Oseman

8 reviews

mbrogs2024's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Alcoholism, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Suicide, Self harm, Alcohol, Chronic illness, Fire/Fire injury, Bullying, Eating disorder, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Homophobia

v1l25's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Blood, Bullying, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Homophobia, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicide attempt

tomoonarmy's review

dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Violence

Moderate: Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Mental illness, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Blood, Bullying, Dysphoria, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Death, Eating disorder, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Self harm

anastasia_raf's review

challenging emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

I've just finished this book. Like, literally not five minutes have passed and I'm already trying to process everything so I can write a somewhat decent review. It's not the perfect book in any way. I found it lacking in many things and some problematic,for me, stuff... But,
The truth is words fail me. I think this book has said everything. My darkest thoughts, my lowest days, my reality. As a pessimist I identified very much with Tori.  While thinking she's not the best person but not the worst? I identified to her in a entirely "human" way. Like is anyone truly bad or entirely good? Who's to judge that? Without having undertaking the circumstances, sympathizing with many factors and justifying many actions?

What breaks me is the " having noticed, expected it but didn't do anything." How many have I thought of that? How many times have other people thought of that? Yet again I wonder if s*ic*de is such an illogical action? Not to say that this book romanticizes it or anything... But as a depressed person with s*ic*da* thoughts I wonder why people take such pleasure in hearing a person thirst and will to live, and such horror in hearing the opposite? Since when one become normalized and the other an illness? Since when is wanting to leave all this pain behind, the hating, racist, homophobic, all in all messed up society- considered a sin, a sickness, selfish... and wanting to live in that very society is praised?
Since when it's okay to ask people to stay just because you love them, you need them even though they are in incredible pain? And when a person decides to not stay because of that very pain is selfish????
It's always "it's your life, do what you will with it," but your de*th? Is not yours. It's the universe's, your god's, your illness's, your fate's...
This book hugs me in a way of saying that not that everything is going to be okay, but I'm here to read me when they are not, because they're not.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Eating disorder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Alcohol, Death, Misogyny, and Vomit

aerial_bysshe's review

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Mental illness, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Death and Eating disorder

anaguana's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Eating disorder, Grief, and Mental illness

Moderate: Abandonment and Alcohol

Minor: Death

evelyn_hughoe's review

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, Suicide, and Self harm

Made me cry

zzzleeping's review

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

• 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

4.0

As much as i painfully relate to the MC, i feel the plot wasnt as gripping as it should

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Homophobia