Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Paper Towns by John Green

8 reviews

soyb3an's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad fast-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Grief, Death, Toxic friendship, and Mental illness

Moderate: Body shaming, Alcohol, Car accident, Cursing, and Bullying

fanboyriot's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny 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

5.0

Read For:

Road Trip

Small Town

Good Friendships

High School Setting 

Missing Person/Runaway

I loved the writing style of this book.  The adventure and mystery was so entertaining to read.  It felt a bit ridiculous but it was so enjoyable to read.  Though the ending wasn’t as satisfying as I was hoping for.

Release Date: 16, October 2008

POV: First Person

Spice: n/a

Rep: BIPOC (SC)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident and Bullying

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, and Alcohol

Minor: Ableism, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Sexual content, Homophobia, Bullying, Fatphobia, Cursing, Sexism, Suicide, Death, and Mental illness

shadow_seven's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted 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? It's complicated

4.75

It has such a strong and powerful meaning about frinedship, mental instability, regrets, abandonment, love, revenge and it is so impactful for teens who are graduating high school. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Grief, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Alcohol, Body shaming, and Car accident

Minor: Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Blood, Confinement, and Toxic friendship

All of John Greens books although may seem predictable they actually aren't and usually have a very strong connection with mental health/illness and a strong connection to personal relationships and parental support/involvement.

psliz's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

4.25

great deconstruction of the manic pixie dream girl trope with a mystery element 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Minor: Homophobia

b00ks_'s review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

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

2.0

Paper Towns by John Green wasn't terrible, but I’m not going to actively try and recommend it to anyone. It was a nice and quick read, but I have three major complaints. 1. The slang and jokes in this book are super outdated and didn’t age well. They weren’t anything I couldn’t deal with, but they definitely didn’t make me laugh. 2. Lacey had no personality, and it felt like the only reason she was included was to check the “female character included in story” box. It was really annoying. 3. Margo’s obvious mental illness was completely glossed over. She ran away enough times that people were no longer surprised by her disappearance and she basically idolized death. Instead of using Margo’s actions as a way to discuss mental illness, she turned into a stereotypical “manic pixie dream girl.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, and Cursing

Moderate: Fatphobia and Mental illness

a_sleepy_berry's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

1.0

I read it several years ago and thought it was good. When I reread it now it went way below my expectations 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Bullying, Mental illness, Death, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Car accident, Cursing, and Homophobia

maxiemumbo's review against another edition

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

4.0

Not much variation from the typical John Green formula, but it's still as poignant and entertaining as ever.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Cursing, and Sexual content

Minor: Toxic relationship, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Bullying, Animal death, and Abandonment

gray_713's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Suicide, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Ableism and Alcohol