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abby271's review against another edition
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, and Mental illness
fairy_internet's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders
Moderate: Toxic friendship, Cursing, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Stalking, Alcoholism, and Alcohol
Minor: Transphobia, Outing, Death, and Medical content
emmitt's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Violence, Sexual harassment, and Panic attacks/disorders
Moderate: Ableism, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Medical content, Alcoholism, and Stalking
Minor: Pedophilia, Classism, Grief, Drug use, Death, Adult/minor relationship, Transphobia, and Islamophobia
crufts's review against another edition
- 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
> Please, God, please, I want to believe. I want it to be real more than I want to be alive.
Graphic: Mental illness
Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, and Cursing
Minor: Drug abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Suicide, Transphobia, Death, Medical content, and Suicidal thoughts
Mental illness - Depression: Although not explicitly stated, it is implied that Angel is depressed as she clings to the Ark, the only thing that brings her any happiness.Mental illness - Anxiety; Disassociation: Suffered by Jimmy.
Alcohol, Alcoholism: Lister gets drunk... frequently.
Blood: A few characters are injured and bleeding.
Cursing: A number of F- and S-bombs are dropped.
Adult/minor relationship: Brief mention of one between a 16-year-old and a 32-year-old. It is immediately condemned.
Death: A few of Jimmy's family members have passed away. He also fears the death of a living relative.
Drug abuse: Mentioned in the context of the rockstar lifestyle.
Transphobia: A journalist makes a veiled transphobic remark to Jimmy.
Medical content: There is a brief mention of Jimmy taking his hormone replacement therapy medication via injection.
Suicidal thoughts: Angel and Jimmy suffer from suicidal thoughts during their darkest moments.
Suicide: It is heavily implied that Jimmy's great-grandfather passed away by suicide, following a struggle with severe anxiety.
There is no Islamophobia towards the Muslim protagonist, Angel.
There is no deadnaming of the trans man protagonist, Jimmy, nor any mention of him suffering gender dysphoria.
robinskye28's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders
Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Abandonment, Homophobia, Medical content, Dysphoria, Death of parent, Transphobia, Adult/minor relationship, Eating disorder, Sexual assault, and Drug use
*Grandparent not parent MC has anxiety/panic attacksross_emm's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Alcohol, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders
Moderate: Blood and Medical content
cdoubet's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Blood, Eating disorder, Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Violence, Vomit, Drug use, Alcohol, Outing, and Panic attacks/disorders
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Sexual assault and Hate crime
frey's review against another edition
- 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
3.25
Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders
Moderate: Alcoholism, Stalking, and Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Abandonment, Vomit, Blood, Deadnaming, Eating disorder, Medical content, and Transphobia
therainbowshelf's review against another edition
- 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
3.0
Graphic: Stalking, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Grief, Death of parent, Self harm, Alcohol, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Sexism, Violence, Medical content, Alcoholism, and Abandonment
teslis's review against another edition
- 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
Now I've read all the four big books by Alice Oseman and this one is absolutly my favorite one out of them.
In this book we get to follow Angel who is a big fan of the most popular boyband at the time: "The Arc". She is truly one of my favorite character in this book, along with the whole band. Angel feels like a real person with what she say and do. I can totally see us as friends.
The part I really enjoyed with this book, was that we also get to follow Jimmy who is one of the members in "The Arc". He struggles with allot of anxiety both personally, but also from being in the band. To follow his bandmates thinking and doing was a big highlight of this book.
I really felt like Angel allot of time while listening to the audiobook. I think we have allot of similarities, example of that being to have dedicated allot (if not all) of my teenage years to fan-girling over different bands (and fictional characters). Listening to allot of things that she and her friends talked about was something that brought back memories.
I loved to see the differences of the same thing from the two perspectives. That is truly what I liked the most about this book. Some dual p.o.v. can be messy, and hard to understand, but Oseman know how and when to switch and what to keep and what to not. So to live thru Angel as a fan, but also to see Jimmy's point of view as someone in the spotlight was what I loved. To be reminded of the good parts that allot of famous people experience, but most importantly all the bad things that a fan don't see.
I would like all people to read this book, I loved it (!!), but especially all the fans of bands and other real and famous people to see what can be going on behind the cameras. It's not all sunshine and rainbows and it's important to understand that.
Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Alcohol, Medical content, and Mental illness
Moderate: Alcoholism, Vomit, Stalking, and Adult/minor relationship