Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

Elämäni seinäruusuna by Stephen Chbosky

126 reviews

cadybooks's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Incest, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Abortion, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

moraisemma's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Drug use, Physical abuse, Abortion, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

kim_lommaert's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Outing, and Alcohol

Minor: Child abuse, Fatphobia, Pedophilia, Suicide, Violence, and Pregnancy

andst's review against another edition

challenging dark 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

5.0

I feel like this book really encaptures self-improvement during high school. How, at that age, we feel aimless, worthless, unlikable and inadequate. How we tirelessly look for a sense of belonging and how somehow it's never enough. It's depressing, stressful, and deeply relatable. 
Throughout the book Charlie experience a sense of hopelessness while he sees the world (and the people) around him break down into pieces, just to realize that he cannot do anything to fix them no matter how much he tries. All the characters come with their own set of problems and we can see how these problems consume Charlie completely, even if they don't belong to him. Which is something some of us can deeply relate to.
This book makes you feel seen and understood. It encourages you embrace those around you despite their flaws, because we are not perfect either. We are all trying to get through life one day at a time, might as well just do it along those you care for.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, Abortion, Pregnancy, Outing, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Car accident and Toxic friendship

Minor: Suicide attempt

maggiemooreads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Homophobia, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Alcohol

Moderate: Death, Self harm, and Violence

Minor: Physical abuse, Rape, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Toxic friendship

breedawnwriter's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny inspiring sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

This is one of those books that changes you. 🫶

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Drug use, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Alcohol

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual assault, and Suicide

Minor: Death, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Racism, Car accident, Abortion, and Pregnancy

A main character is gay; multiple descriptions of F/M and M/M sexual encounters; someone uses the gay slur f-word;

and references to a character being sexually abused by an adult.

kyanasburger's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring 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

5.0

I love this book so incredibly much. It’s important to remember that you are never alone in your struggles. Someone has felt the same way you are feeling, even if they never admitted it to someone or themselves. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicide, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

lokes's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Incest, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Outing, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

matidareads's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

We are infinite . The most iconic quote in this book.This is an amazing book and is like a young high schoolers version of The Catcher In The Rye .But Charlie has hope and wants to be the best friend anyone can have .He try’s his best to make friendships work and does this out of love.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Homophobia, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Car accident, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

charlies_shelf's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful relaxing 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

5.0

And in that moment, I swear. We were infinite.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Violence, and Pregnancy

Minor: Sexual assault