Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel by Steven Levenson, Benj Pasek, Val Emmich

13 reviews

rori_does_art's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This book is incredible, especially if you are a fan of the musical. It elaborates on the plot quite a lot and it is really emotionally investing.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Child death, Cursing, Death

Minor: Bullying, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Classism

emiemilka's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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i just loved it!!!! its not everyone's cup of tea: the writing style, the story, the issues happening, but its mine. i love it. i love you mike faist thank you for reading all of the connor's parts

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Suicide attempt

Moderate: Addiction

Minor: Bullying, Cursing, Drug use, Self harm, Violence, Abandonment, Alcohol

caitlyn_drago_1226's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Suicide attempt

Moderate: Cursing

emmaward55's review against another edition

3.0

sad

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Oof. Those trigger warnings are no joke.

Some quick thoughts: 

Evan was a character that I loved to hate - right until *that* twist in the end. He's inappropriate, makes poor and harmful choices, and prioritizes his own need for comfort over others (even when his narration is insisting the opposite is true). In essence, he's a realistic teenage boy. 

I got such strong secondhand embarrassment from his words and deeds, that reading this book often felt like a minor anxiety attack.

Until like the final 90% or so of the book, I genuinely thought it had been mis-shelved as LGBTQ+. The straight "romance" is excruciating thanks to a certain dramatic irony. 

I dreaded every scene between Evan and Zoe and that KISS? Gross. 

Evan just kept crossing lines so blatant that a person with their eyes closed could have seen them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Suicide attempt

Moderate: Cursing, Abandonment

Minor: Drug use, Antisemitism

Child death: It's a teenager (a senior in highschool)

bookish_manatee's review against another edition

4.0

challenging emotional reflective 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

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I love the soundtrack of the Dear Evan Hansen musical, and it’s gotten me through some rough times. I’ve always had mixed feelings about the story, however, and the book didn’t help that. The writing style was engaging and overall I enjoyed it, but I didn’t like how Evan was written. I found him to be very unlikeable, even if that was meant to make him more realistic. I also didn’t like how the themes of mental illness and suicide weren’t addressed as well as they could’ve been. I did love reading the chapters from Connor’s POV though, and I wish we could see more from him.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Grief

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Abandonment

Minor: Fatphobia

littlecharming's review against another edition

3.5

emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, Death, Suicide, Grief, Suicide attempt

Minor: Toxic relationship, Medical content

yk_cadence1's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide

Minor: Drug use

bedwellbooks's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I found this book good, but definitely not as good as I had imagined it to be. From the hype surrounding it, I thought it would be this amazingly profound story with tons of reflection on life. It did, and maybe I have just read too many books for this one to stand out. I did rate it a 4 because at the end, Evan’s mom said something that stuck with me and I connected to personally. She said, “do you remember the day your dad drove by to get his things? … it was a few weeks after he moved out … your father and I were both nervous about how you’d handle it, watching all his stuff get taken from the house. But you were so excited when you saw that big moving truck in the driveway you barely seemed to notice … and then a few hours later your father was gone, and the truck was gone, and it finally set in. It was just you and me, all alone in that big house.” That stuck with me personally because it was a mirror image of the night my own father moved out. I do appreciate the story about Connor and developing his personality and finding more about him as the story goes on. I also like how they did not demonize him at all in this book for taking his own life. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief

Minor: Homophobia

thattheatrekid's review against another edition

4.75

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I adore this musical above all others and this book did not disappoint! Heavy swearing but there were some extra scenes not seen in the musical that really added to the story. It’s told in a conversational manner and you don’t even realize how fast you’re turning the pages until it’s done. This plot and these characters will always have my heart.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Grief

Moderate: Child death, Death, Suicide, Suicide attempt

Minor: Drug use

kaylasbookgram's review against another edition

5.0

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

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

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