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Solitaire by Alice Oseman

144 reviews

sophie42's review

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Eating disorder, Mental illness, Homophobia, and Alcohol

Minor: Vomit and Self harm

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

3amonline's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful 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
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder, Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, Violence, and Alcohol

Minor: Toxic friendship and Stalking

grimdark_dad's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Self harm, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, Bullying, Eating disorder, Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Homophobia

booknerdz28's review against another edition

dark hopeful mysterious 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? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, and Self harm

Moderate: Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Bullying, Cursing, and Eating disorder

Minor: Homophobia and Sexual content

delz's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-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

4.5

Going into this 260 page book I thought this will be a quick read. ABSOLUTELY NOT! Tori Spring, who is Charlie Spring’s older sister is a depressed teenager. She is self loathing, and many time’s self destructive with thoughts of self harm. She becomes obsessed with the mystery of Solitaire, a mysterious person/persons terrorizing the school. As Tori’s friend, Michael points out, though all the the “pranks” relate back to her. Tori is fumbling through her life, not sleeping, worrying about solitaire and messing up her relationships with friends and the one boy, Michael who seems genuinely to care about her. This is the ultimate angst filled ya novel, written at the time by an actual teenager. Alice Oseman definitely knew what she was doing though and the characters  come across real and sympathetic. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Self harm

Minor: Alcohol, Bullying, and Vomit

jennylo's review against another edition

fast-paced

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

I came to this from Heartstopper, and it's different to the beautiful, heart warming loveliness of that bubble. Slightly darker, though I understand the re-release was edited to remove some even darker aspects. 
I didn't connect with Tori. I was hoping she'd be a strong female lead, but she seemed oblivious to what was going on around her until it was pointed out by other (male) characters. Yes, she "doesn't care", but she's also written as very clever, so how did she miss these things? 
I still enjoyed it, and read it very quickly. I think I more enjoyed it as getting some other back ground to what's happening in Heartstopper. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, and Mental illness

odette_tbdk's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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

5.0

Esperé tanto para leer a Tori y ya lo hice. Me tardé en escribir esta review, pero es que me hirió tanto este libro, ouch.

El personaje de Tori ya me parecía relatable y muy interesante desde que leí Heartstopper. Aquí tenemos una narradora oscura y con mucho sarcasmo y humor negro al estilo de Daria. Entiendo si hay personas a las que les disgustó o les desagradó su personaje, pero a mi me parece brillante.

Michael es todo lo que está bien, empieza siendo un chico torpe y completamente opuesto a Tori, pero esconde mucho más de lo que aparenta,

Todo el misterio sobre Solitario fue INCREÍBLE. La resolución quizás no estuvo tan épica, pero no creo que fuera eso a lo que Alice quería llegar. Es un gran misterio que como audiencia tenemos que resolver y aunque Tori no se quiera involucrar, termina estándolo más de lo que debería.

El final me hizo llorar mares de lo tan representada que me sentí. Es inexplicable el amor y el odio (por hacerme sufrir) que tengo por este libro. LEÁNLO.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Violence, Suicide attempt, Self harm, Eating disorder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Stalking, Toxic relationship, and Mental illness

Minor: Outing, Addiction, Alcohol, and Homophobia

captainoliimar's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

2.5

I really enjoyed other Alice Oseman books so I dove into this one expecting the same thing. Unfortunately I didn't click with this one the same way I have with others. I struggled to connect fully with Tori, even though I like her character in other books. It kinda just felt like she was existing in different places for the whole book and never fully engaged with the plot herself. I also unfortunately found Michael quite awkward and irritating. Something about the way he barged in to the meal just felt quite icky to me and I think that overshadowed his other appearances. 

Characters: 6/10
Atmosphere: 7/10  
Writing: 4/10
Plot: 5/10
Intrigue: 4/10  
Logic: 6/10  
Enjoyment: 5/10

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Eating disorder, and Alcohol

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Sexual harassment

theintrovertsbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing

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

Minor: Blood, Alcohol, Homophobia, Eating disorder, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexual content