Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Umanii by Matt Haig

21 reviews

unablelemon's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted sad fast-paced

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

5.0

Funny and beautiful 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt

Moderate: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Self harm

Minor: Domestic abuse

immdanii's review against another edition

adventurous funny reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Infidelity, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Sexual assault, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, and Toxic relationship

booksbutmakeitgay's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

he_lena's review against another edition

funny hopeful lighthearted 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Infidelity, and Death

Moderate: Violence and Murder

Minor: Sexual content and Mental illness

ate_reads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Infidelity, Suicide attempt, Violence, Abandonment, Bullying, Cursing, Alcohol, Death, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

wayward_sara's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

It really was a journey, a beautiful and moving one. Maybe because I had some difficult moments lately, but this book was comforting without being too optimistic. There was pain and sadness in this story but there was also love and happiness. As for the writing style, I liked it, I especially liked the short chapters, to me it felt like reading a short letter from a friend, a little moment of calm before going on with my day. 
It's definetely become one of my favorite stories.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Infidelity

liz_ann's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

I was looking for something to read and since I liked the Midnight Library by Matt Haig so much, I gave this a read! I am quite impressed by Haig's creativity in this novel and just like with the Midnight Library, he's able to so wonderfully capture the beauty of human life and it just makes me feel a little more alive inside. I enjoyed the themes of this book and his writing, but the overall plot of it was not my usual cup of tea, which is why I gave it 4 stars and not more. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Alcohol, Grief, and Mental illness

whirl's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

This book has a bit of everything: funny and lighthearted, but also sad and emotional. I think the way you read it might depend a bit on your own state of mind at the time

Very enjoyable

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt

Moderate: Murder, Violence, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Death of parent, Death, Bullying, and Alcohol

Minor: Forced institutionalization

book_addict's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Death, Mental illness, Murder, and Infidelity

books_and_cream_cheese's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful inspiring reflective

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

3.5

The "alien-comes-to-earth-the-first-time"-concept is nothing new (in fact, I had to think of Marvel's first Thor movie a lot while reading this), but Matt Haig manages to put an interesting spin on it. It's funny and philosophical in a way that will stick with me for a long time. It DOES have its lenghts though and the last few pages contained some of the cringiest sentences I've ever read. I also think that it focused on the protagonist a bit toooo much and neglected the development of some side characters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Suicide attempt