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Solitaire by Alice Oseman

50 reviews

delz's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-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

4.5

Going into this 260 page book I thought this will be a quick read. ABSOLUTELY NOT! Tori Spring, who is Charlie Spring’s older sister is a depressed teenager. She is self loathing, and many time’s self destructive with thoughts of self harm. She becomes obsessed with the mystery of Solitaire, a mysterious person/persons terrorizing the school. As Tori’s friend, Michael points out, though all the the “pranks” relate back to her. Tori is fumbling through her life, not sleeping, worrying about solitaire and messing up her relationships with friends and the one boy, Michael who seems genuinely to care about her. This is the ultimate angst filled ya novel, written at the time by an actual teenager. Alice Oseman definitely knew what she was doing though and the characters  come across real and sympathetic. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Self harm

Minor: Alcohol, Bullying, and Vomit

robinks's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad fast-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

4.75

As someone who read/watched Heartstopper first, I always appreciated Tori’s presence, but we never get to know what’s going on with her. Tori’s thoughts and feelings as she’s working through them are communicated very well. The last 70 pages flew by really quickly. I want to know what happens next!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Eating disorder, Alcohol, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Violence, and Homophobia

Minor: Vomit and Injury/Injury detail

saraandherfilms's review against another edition

reflective fast-paced

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

3.0

Amo a Alice Oseman, pero creo que esta es la peor de todas sus novelas. Me han gustado detalles de ella, pero noto que falta mucho desarrollo de personaje en Tori y el resto de personajes. Me ha dejado una sensación agridulce. Se nota como Alice ha mejorado muchísimo su escritura desde que escribió este libro hasta sus últimas obras, hay una fuerte evolución.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicide attempt, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Vomit

chasingpages1's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Bullying, Homophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Suicide attempt, Self harm, Suicide, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Toxic friendship and Stalking

Minor: Vomit, Cursing, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Outing

crunchycrystals's review against another edition

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Eating disorder and Self harm

Minor: Vomit

nindie's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

4.75

i started bawling my eyes at the end and i found this book to be relatable in a lot of scenarios, made me even more self-aware about how i feel and my interactions.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Eating disorder, Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Minor: Alcohol and Vomit

vercopaanir's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad tense 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

2.0

I’m not sure how I felt about this book.  Sure made me glad I’m not in high school anymore!  It was just kinda… weird to me.  It was like a mystery but also a story about mental illness (in fact it was incredibly mentally heavy, just as a warning to anyone interested) and friendship and being a teenager.  If you’ve read Alice Oseman’s other books you’ll recognize most of the characters, but the mood is apparently entirely different.  I have NOT yet read her other books, so I’m taking the author’s word for it.
For me the most intriguing part was the mystery of who Solitaire was, and the author seemed to do a decent job of dropping hints as well as a couple red herring (herrings? what’s the plural of herring?).
I also had mixed feelings about this audiobook version, because the narrator didn’t do much voice acting in terms of other characters.  When there was dialogue between two characters without dialogue tags, I couldn’t tell who was speaking because there weren’t distinct voices.  This isn’t a HUGE deal but definitely affected my understanding and enjoyment of the book at times.
Overall, it was okay, but not great and not likely one I’ll read again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Suicidal thoughts, and Mental illness

Moderate: Bullying, Eating disorder, Self harm, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Alcohol, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Vomit and Stalking

val_theburrowofstories's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Vomit, Toxic friendship, Stalking, and Medical content

mightyfrenchbookworm's review against another edition

hopeful sad fast-paced

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

1.75

Avant toute chose, il est important de mentionner que je ne suis pas le public cible pour ce roman. C'est un livre écrit par une ado pour les ados. Des problèmes d'ado où la dépression est mis en avant plan. Souvent abordé avec un humour déplacé on parle de mort avec beaucoup de désinvolture. L'autrice n'avait pas encore maîtrisé le "show don't tell". Le FMC était difficile à apprécier.... Ce qui était le but recherché, je crois.  C'est juste que ça rendait le tout fort déplaisant à lire.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Homophobia, Eating disorder, and Vomit

vicke's review

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

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

4.75

Love this book so much. Definitely good for anyone going through stressful school years and just to relate to. Not for the weak tho.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm and Eating disorder

Moderate: Violence and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Vomit

Firstly, this book deals with someone relapsing their self harm, OCD and eating disorder(?) As well as hysteria and injury.

Safe reading :)