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Solitaire by Alice Oseman

142 reviews

ravenn15's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I was not expecting the second half atall the way it escalated was crazy

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Mental illness

Moderate: Alcohol and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Vomit

marleen02's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad tense

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Alcohol, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Eating disorder, and Fire/Fire injury

cecilielaugesen's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.75

I really like Tori. Not necessarily who she is as a person, but the way she is described is just very real. I’m not saying I agree with all her choices, but I understand them. Honestly she is an asshole at times, but you can’t help but feel for her.
I loved the first half of this book, but I felt it was longer than it needed to be, and honestly it felt liked it just dragged on in the second part.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, and Mental illness

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, Suicide attempt, and Eating disorder

Minor: Alcohol and Blood

tetrootz's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Mental illness

Moderate: Medical trauma, Homophobia, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Self harm, Panic attacks/disorders, Eating disorder, Drug use, Cursing, Outing, Mental illness, Dysphoria, Toxic friendship, Violence, Blood, Bullying, and Medical content

fanboyriot's review against another edition

emotional funny sad medium-paced

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

5.0

🫶 Hurt/Comfort

💻 Anonymous Blog

☀️ Grumpy x Sunshine 

I don’t think there is ever going to be a book I dislike from Alice Oseman.  This book was fantastic.  Tori Spring has always been a favorite character of mine and her book was amazing.

This book dealt with a lot of heavy topics but it was written so nicely.  Tori dealing with undiagnosed depression, her complicated relationship with her mother, her brother’s mental health, the odd age of figuring life out only to find she doesn’t care about anything.

The asexual rep in this was lovely and I liked how the relationship with Tori and Michael was written.  This whole book was just so lovely in a hurt/comfort way.

Spice Level: n/a

Release Date: 02, May 2023

POV: First Person

Rep: Asexual (MC), Pansexual (SC), Gay (SC), Bisexual (SC), LGBTQIA+ characters, Depression 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Cursing, and Stalking

Moderate: Suicide, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

Minor: Vomit, Grief, Chronic illness, Suicide attempt, Self harm, Outing, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Blood, and Alcohol

iconicavocado's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Cursing, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

peggy_racham's review against another edition

4.75

So unlike Heartstopper but so good still. Really liked Tori's perspective and the slow unfolding of everything going on with her and the main plot.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Eating disorder, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Self harm, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcohol, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

goobergio's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Blood, Bullying, Homophobia, Misogyny, Eating disorder, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Child abuse, Cursing, and Medical content

sophie42's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Eating disorder, Mental illness, Homophobia, and Alcohol

Minor: Vomit and Self harm

eyescanbecruel'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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Cursing, Alcohol, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Self harm, and Violence

Minor: Medical content, Sexual content, Blood, and Bullying