Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Solitaire by Alice Oseman

34 reviews

aino_maria23's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Eating disorder, Self harm, Violence, Stalking, and Bullying

Minor: Alcohol, Outing, and Medical content

cdoubet's review against another edition

emotional mysterious tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Eating disorder, Fire/Fire injury, Bullying, Cursing, Homophobia, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

Minor: Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual content, Vomit, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

tetrootz's review

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

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

goobergio's review

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

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

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

m4rtt4's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

I put off reading this book for so long, because the synopsis made Tori sound insufferable — and yes, insufferable she was. So much. Despite all the pessimism this book ended up being the best Oseman novel I've read, partly (read: mostly) because Tori and Michael reminded me so much of me and my boyfriend when we were 17. Good times. (not really, I was so oblivious but also such a pain in the ass)

Now I've read every single one of Oseman's literary works, kinda weird to leave the debut till the very end but hey, maybe I just unconsciously saved the best for the last? None of her works have been bad though, she's my comfort author <3

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Medical content, Self harm, Homophobia, and Violence

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

booklover55's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective relaxing sad 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

5.0

This book is a constant favourite of mine I have listened and read it multiple time. This book is extremely relatable and it embodies so much emotion and it really makes you think about what u r doing in ur life. This book is for the people who don’t feel life anymore and for the people who need a comfort character who relates to you. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Abandonment, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Minor: Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Medical content, Abandonment, Self harm, Mental illness, and Violence