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Solitaire by Alice Oseman

30 reviews

smalljoys's review against another edition

challenging dark inspiring sad 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

I preferred loveless and radio silence more than solitaire. However, I did enjoy learning more about Tori Spring and her life experiences. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Mental illness, Eating disorder, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Homophobia and Hate crime

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

glen3's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Mental illness, and Self harm

Moderate: Hate crime, Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcohol, Eating disorder, and Homophobia

Minor: Toxic friendship

emily_p1's review against another edition

dark lighthearted mysterious slow-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Eating disorder, Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, and Hate crime

Moderate: Suicide and Suicide attempt

Minor: Alcohol

scoutty's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Self harm, Medical content, Eating disorder, and Mental illness

Moderate: Alcohol, Adult/minor relationship, Toxic friendship, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, and Bullying

Minor: Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Grief, Hate crime, Homophobia, and Medical trauma

gottheart's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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

5.0

“If you can’t accept things you don’t understand, then you’ll spend your life questioning everything. Then you’ll have to live your life in your own head.”

Solitaire had me hooked from the first chapter. I knew a bit about Tori from the Heartstopper books but this really opened up her personality and her issues. I could definitely relate to her, I went through something similar at her age. 
This book was a wild ride but it showed life with depression without explicitly talking about it, and it had a great mystery throughout that always left you guessing. 
I definitely recommend this book to anyone who wants to read about mental health issues, love, friendship and mystery! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Eating disorder, and Hate crime

julesadventurezone's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Suicide attempt, and Mental illness

Moderate: Alcohol, Blood, Cursing, Eating disorder, Fire/Fire injury, Hate crime, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Mental illness, Self harm, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Vomit

angrboda's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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

5.0

absolutely adore this book, it’s rare to find a protagonist you relate to 100% , where you agree to all their thoughts, feelings and actions. i’ve never seen a character like tori spring before, she’s a fictional embodiment of me. a person who thinks like i do. i read this book very quickly and enjoyed every moment of it, i cant express how perfect it is.

although i do wish that tori and micheal’s romantic relationship at the end was explored further, i love them both

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Cursing, Violence, Bullying, Eating disorder, Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, Blood, Self harm, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Hate crime, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Outing, Medical content, Stalking, and Vomit

abbrillopezz's review against another edition

dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Fire/Fire injury, Hate crime, Homophobia, and Injury/Injury detail

hannahmayhere's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Hate crime, Mental illness, and Self harm

fayereadsbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

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

2.5

I spent the entirety of this book being confused, honestly I had no clue what was going on most of the time.

I love Alice Oseman as an author and I love Heartstopper so I will definitely read more of their work in the future but this book just wasn't for me at all. If it wasn't by Alice Oseman, I probably would have stopped reading pretty early on.

It was so incredibly dark. Definitely check the content warnings for this book as it covered lots of very dark topics that could potentially be very triggering.
 
 

My favourite quotes:

p160 "I would be nothing without Becky, I think. Even though things are different now. Sometimes it makes me tear up thinking about how much I love her"

p262 "Michael still has that spark. That light.  But there's more there now. Things that cannot be seen; only found"

p270 "My hobbies are drinking diet lemonade and being a bitter asshole"

p272 " As I open the door, her murmurs: 'Nothing's going to change until you decide you want it to change"

p278 "Some people aren't meant for school, that doesn't mean they aren't meant for life"

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Eating disorder, Hate crime, Homophobia, Medical content, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Violence

The r-word used as an insult, depression,

fire, burns from fireworks,

harm