Reviews tagging 'Bullying'

I Am Not Okay With This by Charles Forsman

8 reviews

therainbowshelf's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

2.0

I didn't enjoy this graphic novel. The whole story feels underdeveloped and disjointed, and I forgot entirely that it was following the main character's journal so the author didn't make good use of that idea. It felt like this was just too focused on being edgy and shocking and forgot to do the rest of the story building. There's also a lot of unconsensual kissing in this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Murder, Bullying, Death, Mental illness, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Sexual content, Homophobia, and Sexual assault

ohboysidd's review

dark reflective tense

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Drug abuse, Child death, Death of parent, Homophobia, and Suicide

eurydice_books_09's review

dark sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

tbh I don’t know how I feel about this book LOL. Not what I expected at all, i loved the show when it came out so much so checked this out and it was so much crazier than I could imagine. Still pretty cool but so sad.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Lesbophobia, Medical content, Vomit, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Gore, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Violence

hayleythegoose's review

challenging dark sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Death of parent, Lesbophobia, Murder, Vomit, Cursing, Hate crime, Rape, Sexual content, Bullying, Drug abuse, Child death, Grief, and Suicide

Minor: War

taaya's review

challenging dark sad slow-paced

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

2.0

WTF? 

This feels like depression and trauma being written by somebody who has never experienced it themselves. Like somebody who has a mentally ill person around them trying to portray said illness without ever actually asking the person what that feels like. Like ...here it looks like the illness doesn't make any sense at all, like there's no logic, like there's no in-depth psychological character study the mentally ill person creates of themselves.

And the added weird superpower? Why doesn't Syd talk to anyone about it? Get help? Why is she constantly insulting people she claims she likes (and no, calling somebody bitch is NOT okay and it is dehumanising). 

And ... I just don't get it. There's either so much going on between the lines without being verbalised, so not accessible for people with my kind of neurodivergency, or the dealing with the topic is very, very flat.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Murder

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Biphobia, Bullying, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Rape, Addiction, Misogyny, Toxic friendship, Body shaming, Self harm, Sexual assault, and Mental illness

Minor: War

jjb1313's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Suicide, Child death, Grief, Mental illness, Death of parent, Drug use, and Bullying

Moderate: Sexual violence, Violence, Lesbophobia, Vomit, Gore, and Rape

Minor: Misogyny, Domestic abuse, and Pregnancy

barefootbetsy's review

adventurous challenging dark sad fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicide, Bullying, Drug use, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, and Blood

Moderate: Death of parent, Rape, Homophobia, and Medical content

Minor: Abortion

sweetmusic22's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death of parent, Homophobia, Suicide, and Gore