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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
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
asurasantosha's review against another edition
dark
emotional
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
3.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, and Alcohol
Moderate: Gun violence, Homophobia, and Eating disorder
good_names_dont_exist's review against another edition
dark
emotional
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
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Eating disorder
Moderate: Suicide attempt, Self harm, Homophobia, and Cursing
Minor: Alcohol
virtualvoid's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Self harm and Alcohol
frqnc22's review against another edition
emotional
funny
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
relaxing
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
don’t have the words right now, but can’t leave this empty: i feel that alice’s books speak right to my soul. as if my brain can’t even comprehend what happens, but i feel it.
needless to say, i love solitaire, even if it’s a bit messy and all over the place, this is how tori’s mind is. i love seeing the world through her eyes, and i love to see her navigate it and work on her relationships and do better. i cried at the end, and mostly because charlie showed up. their relationship means so much to me, just two people who love each other, but feel like they’re failing each other and that’s the last thing they want.
don’t even get me started on michael and how much love i have for this dork and his spontaneous personality. the world isn’t fair to these characters, they’re sometimes not fair to each other, people are unfair, but maybe that’s not always true, kinda depends on your perspective. you’re not alone, there are people who feel just what you feel, and there are people that are gonna stick by your side because they care. might be hard to believe, but you’re worth it, and tori tries to see that.
needless to say, i love solitaire, even if it’s a bit messy and all over the place, this is how tori’s mind is. i love seeing the world through her eyes, and i love to see her navigate it and work on her relationships and do better. i cried at the end, and mostly because charlie showed up. their relationship means so much to me, just two people who love each other, but feel like they’re failing each other and that’s the last thing they want.
don’t even get me started on michael and how much love i have for this dork and his spontaneous personality. the world isn’t fair to these characters, they’re sometimes not fair to each other, people are unfair, but maybe that’s not always true, kinda depends on your perspective. you’re not alone, there are people who feel just what you feel, and there are people that are gonna stick by your side because they care. might be hard to believe, but you’re worth it, and tori tries to see that.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Alcohol, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, and Bullying
Minor: Injury/Injury detail and Eating disorder
catwhisperflubbs's review against another edition
dark
emotional
funny
informative
reflective
sad
tense
fast-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
5.0
this book was funny, haunting, heartbreaking, and wild. 6 stars.
victoria "tori" spring is a 16-year-old girl with a mental health at rock bottom. she's tired of everything and she worries about her 15-year-old brother, charlie and his anorexia/o.c.d. (obsessive compulsive disorder) relapses.
one day at school, she finds an online blog under the name "solitaire," pulling pranks and tricks around her school. tori hates having her life disrupted and when a weird, obsessive boy named michael holden won't leave her life either, she falls into a rabbit hole of chaos and confusion. (this is not a love story.)
*please check the content warnings below before reading*
thank you, solitairians
patience kills
(iykyk)
victoria "tori" spring is a 16-year-old girl with a mental health at rock bottom. she's tired of everything and she worries about her 15-year-old brother, charlie and his anorexia/o.c.d. (obsessive compulsive disorder) relapses.
one day at school, she finds an online blog under the name "solitaire," pulling pranks and tricks around her school. tori hates having her life disrupted and when a weird, obsessive boy named michael holden won't leave her life either, she falls into a rabbit hole of chaos and confusion. (this is not a love story.)
*please check the content warnings below before reading*
thank you, solitairians
patience kills
(iykyk)
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol
Moderate: Eating disorder and Suicidal thoughts
ariak07's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
inspiring
mysterious
tense
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? Yes
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcohol
Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Homophobia, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Eating disorder, Self harm, Mental illness, Fire/Fire injury, Cursing, and Suicide attempt
Minor: Toxic friendship
robinks's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
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? Yes
4.75
As someone who read/watched Heartstopper first, I always appreciated Tori’s presence, but we never get to know what’s going on with her. Tori’s thoughts and feelings as she’s working through them are communicated very well. The last 70 pages flew by really quickly. I want to know what happens next!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Dysphoria, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Eating disorder, Alcohol, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Violence, and Homophobia
Minor: Vomit and Injury/Injury detail
icarusandthesun's review against another edition
reflective
sad
slow-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
the delulu is strong with this one♥
lemme tell you what i think—tori spring is insufferable.
i guess i'm just too old for these books, i really believe that. because 12-year-old me would've eaten this up for sure. melodrama and excruciating self-pity, and "i'm so different", and "everyone else is stupid and immature but not me."
i shared these thoughts with tori once, and maybe that's why i hate her so much. because i used to be insufferable, too. the only difference is, i was insufferable at 12, she's still insufferable at sweet 16.
seriously, if i were this advice-resistent and on top of that incredibly rude to my parents (ignoring their questions for no reason other than being an absolute asshole) they would straight-up disown me for sure. at one point, tori's dad sighs and mutters "teenagers" under his breath and she goes on that tangent that her being a teenager doesn't explain everything about her, ... but it really does though.
i literally chuckled at her dad's remark because man, that's what i was thinking for the whole 390 pages this book sports.
i believe this behavior comes from a place of deep narcissism and lack of empathy. tori is incredibly close-minded and i understand that depression can do that to someone. it makes you selfish and self-centred and short-sighted. but the older you get the more you're able to put it into perspective. you realize that you're in fact not the only person who suffers, and you realize that the people you called "stupid" or immature for liking "basic" things have a complex internal life just like you do. they're simply not being as insufferable as you.
i also really don't understand why the characters in this book kept trying to become friends with tori. she's boring, she's no one, she's got no personality at all. she's not passionate about anything, and again, i understand depression can do that to you, but worse, everything her friends suggest or ask her about, it's always just "i hate it." i hate this, i hate myself, blah blah blah.
what's interesting about a person who hates everything, who keeps running away, who keeps shutting everybody out, who keeps venting without permission, who keeps seeking pity from herself and everyone around her?
this whole book was just so excruciatingly boring. literally a bad fanfiction. the diary of a thoughtless, selfish teenage girl. the ending felt like a fever dream and was more than unrealistic (it was literally "and then everybody clapped"). so many bad choices. remarks on depression and suicidal thoughts were thrown around like they mean nothing. pretentious ahh quotes.
i feel no pity towards tori, i'm really sorry. i can't muster up any pity for someone who desperately tries not to get better, who's an inactive, inanimate charity case, who can't say a single smart thing, instead pulling the whole "i hate myself, i want to die so bad, i'm nothing, i'm horrible" spiel on the reader over and over and over again. she's so delusional, it hurts.
i agree, she does need to seek professional help, and not only because of her depression.
maybe look into sociopathy, too.
lemme tell you what i think—tori spring is insufferable.
i guess i'm just too old for these books, i really believe that. because 12-year-old me would've eaten this up for sure. melodrama and excruciating self-pity, and "i'm so different", and "everyone else is stupid and immature but not me."
i shared these thoughts with tori once, and maybe that's why i hate her so much. because i used to be insufferable, too. the only difference is, i was insufferable at 12, she's still insufferable at sweet 16.
seriously, if i were this advice-resistent and on top of that incredibly rude to my parents (ignoring their questions for no reason other than being an absolute asshole) they would straight-up disown me for sure. at one point, tori's dad sighs and mutters "teenagers" under his breath and she goes on that tangent that her being a teenager doesn't explain everything about her, ... but it really does though.
i literally chuckled at her dad's remark because man, that's what i was thinking for the whole 390 pages this book sports.
i believe this behavior comes from a place of deep narcissism and lack of empathy. tori is incredibly close-minded and i understand that depression can do that to someone. it makes you selfish and self-centred and short-sighted. but the older you get the more you're able to put it into perspective. you realize that you're in fact not the only person who suffers, and you realize that the people you called "stupid" or immature for liking "basic" things have a complex internal life just like you do. they're simply not being as insufferable as you.
i also really don't understand why the characters in this book kept trying to become friends with tori. she's boring, she's no one, she's got no personality at all. she's not passionate about anything, and again, i understand depression can do that to you, but worse, everything her friends suggest or ask her about, it's always just "i hate it." i hate this, i hate myself, blah blah blah.
what's interesting about a person who hates everything, who keeps running away, who keeps shutting everybody out, who keeps venting without permission, who keeps seeking pity from herself and everyone around her?
this whole book was just so excruciatingly boring. literally a bad fanfiction. the diary of a thoughtless, selfish teenage girl. the ending felt like a fever dream and was more than unrealistic (it was literally "and then everybody clapped"). so many bad choices. remarks on depression and suicidal thoughts were thrown around like they mean nothing. pretentious ahh quotes.
i feel no pity towards tori, i'm really sorry. i can't muster up any pity for someone who desperately tries not to get better, who's an inactive, inanimate charity case, who can't say a single smart thing, instead pulling the whole "i hate myself, i want to die so bad, i'm nothing, i'm horrible" spiel on the reader over and over and over again. she's so delusional, it hurts.
i agree, she does need to seek professional help, and not only because of her depression.
maybe look into sociopathy, too.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Mental illness and Suicidal thoughts
Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Violence, and Eating disorder
Minor: Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, and Alcohol
miles's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
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? Yes
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts
Moderate: Self harm and Eating disorder