Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Una última parada by Casey McQuiston

30 reviews

dayniw's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted slow-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Terminal illness, Racism, Police brutality, Mental illness, Homophobia, Grief, Death, Confinement, Child abuse, and Biphobia

applesaucecreachur's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense fast-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? It's complicated

4.0

A New Girl vibe + A Schitt's Creek cast + Lesbians = one happy reader. I grinned, giggled, laughed out loud, and stifled reactions in public because of this book. I felt some type of way about reading certain scenes at work and kept reading anyway because I was not hitting pause on this story for love or money. Pancake Billy's House of Pancakes was a magical setting with a feeling that I can only dream of transposing onto my own stories, and the characters were either helplessly lovable or comically despisable.

The ending felt a bit self-indulgent, but I'm willing to let that slide because of how enjoyable the whole reading experience was.

This was an incredible world to get lost in, especially during Pride month. I'm glad to have spent time in it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Grief, and Alcohol

Moderate: Homophobia, Violence, Blood, Mental illness, Police brutality, Lesbophobia, and Hate crime

Minor: Death, Pregnancy, and Dysphoria

josxphinchen's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Drug use, Grief, Lesbophobia, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Abandonment, Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Racism, Biphobia, Death, Homophobia, Mental illness, and Vomit

cait_0310's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful inspiring lighthearted 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? No

4.5

*THIS CONTAINS NO SPOILERS*
This book was amazing. It had biracial relationships, lgbtq+ characters, transgender representation, mental health representation as well. It was amazingly written but due to the medium pace it was a 4.5 for me.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Transphobia, Biphobia, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, Racism, and Mental illness

dariamerr's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful medium-paced

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

3.5

 I feel so conflicted about this book. Because it was so good. The characters were amazing, August went through a great character journey, I loved the found family aspect and how the author created the atmosphere so I could feel how important New York was for the story, almost like a character itself. It also had a bunch of discussion on queer history and activism and how much people had to suffer and fight in the past. The only problem I had was that I couldn’t fully get into the romance.

And this was probably caused by my adoration towards enemies-to-lovers/ dislike-to-love stories. And one of the reasons I love this trope is because we first get to see the characters as flawed people. Because the character don’t understand each other, they easily find flaws that make them instantly feel more human to me.

In this book, however, August falls in love with Jane at first sight (which I’m not even going to comment on because who hasn’t randomly fallen in love for a few seconds with someone on public transportation?) and from then on, in her perspective, she’s perfect. And it’s perfectly normal to see your crush like they are the sun. But Jane retained this mystical, perfect feeling about her all throughout the novel that made me not be able to connect with her.

Don’t get me wrong, the romance was adorable and made my stomach do some weird flips a few times. But I wasn’t as invested into their relationship as I would’ve liked since this is still a romance novel. However, talking about relationships, I was so freaking invested in the found family aspect. I love Myla, Niko and Wes with all my heart. And I think Niko might be my new role model. I just love psychics and I think we need more stories about them. Please and thank you. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Grief

Minor: Mental illness and Drug use

annoyedhumanoid's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

August's roommates were my favorite part, i love the found family trope, which made me a little disappointed with their brief plot line resolutions, but other than that i enjoyed the plot and was satisfied with the ending. i appreciated the writing, it's improved from their debut Red, White & Royal Blue. i was extremely uncomfortable during the public sex scene 😬. 4⅜ stars
cover design review: ★★☆☆☆. yikes, it's just overwhelming. let's count the different typefaces: author name (1), bestselling author (2), title (3), "a novel" (4), Q line symbol (5), and tagline (6). all the different colors, three shades of purplish pink that don't go well together, the "S" is higher than the "TOP" in "STOP", Jane's posture looks stiff and unnatural, just very disappointing. the Spanish edition is gorgeous 😭 and the Portuguese edition is good too, love the art style and the easter eggs from the story but i think the character design is somewhat juvenile

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Alcohol, Grief, Sexual content, and Abandonment

Moderate: Hate crime, Mental illness, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Racism, Violence, Death, and Drug use

Minor: Fatphobia, Alcoholism, Antisemitism, Biphobia, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Transphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, Terminal illness, and Addiction

fiveredhens's review against another edition

emotional 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? No

4.0

i would like more gay escapist light sci-fi!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Racism, Fire/Fire injury, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Alcohol, Confinement, Mental illness, Death, and Drug use

hannahrogers's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Grief, and Death

Moderate: Homophobia, Hate crime, Biphobia, Violence, Mental illness, and Lesbophobia

haleyscomet_'s review against another edition

funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Deadnaming, Grief, Homophobia, Mental illness, and Murder

overbooked207's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective 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

5.0

📖 One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston Book Review 📖

9th book of January 2022 and 9th of the year: 

Another amazing book by a favorite author! I laughed my butt off throughout the entire book, fell in love with all of the characters SO quickly, and loved all of the representation and the queer found family aspect in it. I fully want to read an entire book series based on Jane’s life, and I also can’t wait to start the author’s newest book! Some author-provided TWs are (on page) drinking, light drug use(weed), semi-public sex, sexual content, exploration of depression and anxiety, memory loss and cognitive issues, familial estrangement, familial death, grief, missing persons, implied PTSD, and (off-page/past/alluded to) homophobic violence and hate speech, police violence, the AIDS crisis, racism, childhood neglect, arson, and a historic hate crime resulting in loss of life📚♥️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Cursing, Death, Hate crime, Homophobia, Transphobia, Racism, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Drug use, Xenophobia, Sexism, Physical abuse, Misogyny, Mental illness, Bullying, Grief, Blood, Abandonment, Violence, Police brutality, and Panic attacks/disorders