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Solitaire by Alice Oseman

25 reviews

ophycore's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Bullying, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, Fire/Fire injury, Self harm, and Cursing

Moderate: Medical content, Misogyny, Emotional abuse, Blood, Alcohol, Homophobia, and Eating disorder

Minor: Drug use and Vomit

secretlybatman4's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Eating disorder, Cursing, Self harm, Physical abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Self harm, Bullying, and Suicidal thoughts

kirstenf's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Fire/Fire injury, Eating disorder, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Self harm and Physical abuse

Minor: Alcohol, Violence, and Homophobia

raegann4599's review

challenging emotional sad 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Cursing, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Homophobia, Suicide attempt, Outing, Physical abuse, Bullying, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Self harm, and Panic attacks/disorders

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

skylerher's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Mental illness, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Physical abuse, Bullying, and Eating disorder

Minor: Misogyny and Gun violence

atlas_shruggs's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad slow-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

3.75

Tori has been a favourite character of mine since the first time I read Heartstopper, and this love was reinforced by the Heartstopper TV series. Solitaire sees Tori as the main character of the story, and dives deeper into her character and the depression she's dealing with. It's definitely a darker story than Heartstopper, and is more in tone with volume four of Heartstopper. But something about this book didn't quite click with me. Tori somehow felt like a completely different character, which I suppose was sort of the point of the book; we see her as who she actually is rather than how Charlie sees her in Heartstopper. Still, I felt it was a bit confusing following her mood swings as well as trying to figure out the plot. Overall the book was pretty good, the characters were realistic in a way that none of them really fit into the stereotypes that were placed on them, but it also read very much like a teen novel. 
I do think this would make an excellent movie or mini series, so I hope Netflix gets on that ASAP. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Alcohol, and Homophobia

aisling872's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Eating disorder, Toxic friendship, Physical abuse, Bullying, and Violence

Moderate: Self harm, Violence, and Homophobia

scoutty's review

challenging emotional mysterious sad 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Self harm, Medical content, Eating disorder, and Mental illness

Moderate: Alcohol, Adult/minor relationship, Toxic friendship, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, and Bullying

Minor: Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Grief, Hate crime, Homophobia, and Medical trauma

kay_w's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Mental illness, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Cursing

Moderate: Self harm, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Homophobia, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Outing