Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

11 reviews

mikeymara's review

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

I greatly enjoyed this book. It’s quick and short, read it during a road trip and now am going to buy it to read it again. I loved the characters and their relationship. Greatly recommend, fun ending twist.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Classism, Death, Grief, Death of parent, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Suicide, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Bullying, Murder, Alcohol, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, and Medical content

bookiemonsta's review

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective sad 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Child death, Addiction, Cursing, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Minor: Classism, Child abuse, Police brutality, Mental illness, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, and Medical content

kenna13's review

emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

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

5.0

I loved it much more the second time. It’s a clever book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Gun violence, Medical content, Mental illness, Violence, Cursing, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Death of parent and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Car accident

thatreadershadow's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Grief, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, and Murder

saara_ilona_muu's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Bullying, Grief, Gun violence, Classism, Medical content, Mental illness, Murder, Suicide, Violence, Death of parent, Drug use, Alcohol, Blood, Child death, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Physical abuse

crazy_cellist's review

dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

I loved the progression of the main character and others from the beginning to the end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Addiction, Hate crime, Classism, Death, Bullying, Child death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child abuse, and Gun violence

Moderate: Cursing, Abandonment, Medical trauma, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Self harm, Infidelity, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, and Stalking

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Chronic illness, and Abortion

ilovegilmoregirls's review

dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Torture, Mental illness, Gun violence, Cursing, Addiction, Abandonment, Child abuse, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Drug abuse, Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, Misogyny, Bullying, Death, War, Toxic friendship, Suicide, Police brutality, Murder, Medical content, Grief, Gaslighting, Drug use, and Alcohol

ammr8973's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Violence, Drug use, Death, Alcohol, Mental illness, Gun violence, Grief, Bullying, and Classism

sillymilly14's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A

4.75

THIS BOOK WAS SO AMAZING AND SAD AND JUST OMG IT WAS FANTASTIC. I normally don’t like they books they assign in school, but this was a exception. So good

RIP, Johnny 😭😭 I miss u

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Alcohol, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Blood, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Cursing and Drug use

sarah_ann_roth's review

challenging dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Child death, and Medical content

Moderate: Torture, Suicide, and Mental illness

Minor: Gun violence