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I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver

18 reviews

batbaby's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Deadnaming, Transphobia, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Eating disorder, Deadnaming, Abandonment, Outing, Domestic abuse, and Dysphoria

nightshaderoots's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective 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? Yes

4.25

I wish there was more development with the side characters but that's to be expected when the main character is a heavy focus in the book. That being said I really wished I had this book when I was younger. I'm so glad that it is here for people to read and fall in love with.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Dysphoria, Panic attacks/disorders, Abandonment, Homophobia, Mental illness, and Transphobia

Moderate: Eating disorder

Minor: Alcohol

Throughout the book they talk about how Ben has little or no appetite. I wish there was more focus on that instead of it being brushed aside.

jachnax's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective sad 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 is the first book that accomplished to tear me up. Maybe because I read it in a very emotional moment idk. What I do know is that I couldn't put this down either. This is also the first book ever that I read in one sitting. Normally my brain does not have the attention span to read 100 pages in one sitting, but this book was so damn good I stayed up until 3 am just to finish it and fuck up my sleep schedule. 
This book is so important and I am so thankful that it exist. Everything feels so real and very well described. As someone that experiences panic attacks myself, this is the first book where I can say 'yep that is exactly what it feels like'. I am in love with this book. This book deserves 6 ⭐️. It deserves everything. All I can really say is to please read this book because it handles so many important themes so very well. I honestly just can thank Mason Deaver that they wrote this and I will from now on read anything they will publish.

Additional Content Warnings:
Misgendering, Mental illness, Therapy content

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Homophobia, Dysphoria, Panic attacks/disorders, Religious bigotry, and Transphobia

Minor: Child abuse, Eating disorder, and Sexual harassment

miri42's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, and Abandonment

Moderate: Eating disorder, Outing, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, and Deadnaming

demawenda's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing 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

Świetnie się bawiłam przy tej książce, połowę przeczytałam jednym tchem i siedziałam po nocy by ją skończyć. Oczywiście książka typowa dla YA, szukanie siebie, szkolne życie,  pierwsze miłostki, ale szczerze bardzo mi się podobała. Dobrze napisana, bogate słownictwo, humor trafiający w mój gust. Były też momenty na reflekje, smutek i łzy w oczach. Idealna mieszanka emocji, niczego za dużo, niczego za mało. Postacie nie nazbyt rozbudowane ale nie odczylam tego az tak bo nawet w realnym życiu nie wiemy o innych wszystkiego. Książka po prostu prawdziwa, jkazujaca dobre i złe strony życia, że nie wszystko jest cukierkowe i piękne. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Body shaming, Transphobia, Self harm, Deadnaming, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Religious bigotry, Suicidal thoughts, Dysphoria, and Eating disorder

kai_okay's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, and Transphobia

Moderate: Religious bigotry

Minor: Eating disorder and Domestic abuse

roxanned's review against another edition

emotional hopeful 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

Ben De Backer's story is necessary and important. It is also emotional and beautiful. 

In this book important topics

like identity, sexuality, family, therapy, anxiety and how to recover from a terrible event

are addressed respectfully and in a way everyone can understand them. It is about

what it means to be nonbinary, people being different than expected and different types of love (among other things)

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I'm not nonbinary so it's not my place to say something about the quality of Ben's representation. The intentional imperfect portrait of their support system seems realistic though. Hannah, Thomas and Nathan are trying their best but also make mistakes

with pronouns and other gendered words

. It is one of the possible situations that could happen in real life.

Deaver calls attention to things that make Ben uncomfortable

like gendered clothing, gendered toiletries, coming out

, which shouldn't be an issue in modern society but they still are. Thus, the book invites reflection and discussion.

Overall a cute and meaningful story, that isn't romance heavy but has a lot to do with love.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Abandonment, Homophobia, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Alcohol, Dysphoria, Gaslighting, Mental illness, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Pregnancy, Outing, Body shaming, and Eating disorder

rickireadss's review

4.25

this was heartbreaking but also it put my heart back together so nicely. i cried a lot while reading, especially the scenes between ben and their parents. their parents are absolute TRASH, and it hurt to see them mistreat ben. there is a romance subplot (and it made my heart very happy!!), but it’s not the main focus.

⚠️: transphobia, panic attacks/disorders, homophobia, emotional abuse, abandonment, child abuse, religious bigotry, disordered eating, grief, mental illness, dysphoria, suicidal thoughts

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Religious bigotry, Panic attacks/disorders, Emotional abuse, Transphobia, and Homophobia

Moderate: Mental illness, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, and Dysphoria

silasreads's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Deadnaming, Mental illness, Grief, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Transphobia, and Vomit

fernthatenby's review against another edition

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? It's complicated

3.25

everyone cries a lot

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Transphobia, Emotional abuse, and Eating disorder

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Sexual harassment