Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell

46 reviews

vici24kl's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted reflective 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

4.5

i love Baz. Thats all. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Animal death, and Sexual content

Minor: Child death, Death of parent, and Homophobia

lennie_reads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Animal death and Cursing

Minor: Homophobia, Violence, and Sexual content

betweentheshelves's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

5.0

Okay friends, I'm going to try to put my thoughts into words here without any spoilers! In reality, this book is three stories in one, focusing on Simon and Baz, Penelope and Shepard, and Agatha. They overlap in some ways, but you really get a lot of character depth in each of these three plot lines. 

This book is more character driven than plot, at least in my opinion. It's about healing, moving beyond the past, and figuring out what that means for the future. I think Rowell did an excellent job with this, showing us how all of the characters are healing through their trauma. Also I promise if you're looking for Simon and Baz moments, you get a lot of them.

I might have to write a full review for this one for the blog, but I'm going to wait a bit until more people have read it. Just prepared for it to tug on all of your heartstrings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Mental illness, and Sexual content

Moderate: Death of parent and Cursing

Minor: Biphobia, Homophobia, and Fatphobia

gothicmoon's review against another edition

adventurous emotional lighthearted reflective 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

4.0

the three plots never did interconnect did they. the demon curse and the goats felt irrelevant... which is a shame bc i Would read 600 pages of goat farmcore shenanigans 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Grief, and Mental illness

Moderate: Child abuse and Sexual content

Minor: Body horror

nyssbomb's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective

• 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: Grief and Mental illness

Moderate: Animal death, Blood, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Medical content, and Sexual content

Minor: Abandonment, Fatphobia, and Homophobia

toriplen13's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Mental illness