Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez

1151 reviews

butterflypasta's review against another edition

4.5

funny hopeful medium-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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Abandonment

Minor: Violence

ashkayec's review against another edition

3.0

emotional funny hopeful medium-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

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Content Warnings

Minor: Emotional abuse, Mental illness

kmf0023's review against another edition

4.5

emotional funny lighthearted tense fast-paced

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Abandonment

sehenry20's review against another edition

4.0

emotional funny lighthearted medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Abandonment

Moderate: Vomit

katbsc's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark funny hopeful reflective tense medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Medical content, Dementia, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

danigmzr's review against another edition

4.75

emotional funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Grief, Abandonment

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Death of parent

sammymilfort's review against another edition

4.5

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol

paigefrost28's review against another edition

5.0

emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment

burritokay's review against another edition

5.0

emotional funny lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Mental illness

averysbookclub's review against another edition

3.5

emotional lighthearted sad fast-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

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I really don’t know how I feel about this book. I really like the idea of it and the basic plot outline is really interesting, but the way it is written annoys me. I just don’t like the way everything plays out and most of it was honestly pretty boring. Maybe that’s the point though? That they’re just boring people and boring people can have nice love stories too, but boring people living boring lives makes for a boring book.

Anyway, that is me being hateful. It is actually a sweet story and I really did enjoy the heavier issues, I thought they were fairly well written.

I may also just be a hater of contemporary romance, because I hate reading and seeing things like “AITA” and “unalive” and “snap”. It just ruins it for me.

Also they were way too in love way too fast. Justin was lowkey insane for all of that. And despite the fact that he contains the qualities that could make him a great book bf, I kind of hated him. I felt like he was pretty selfish towards Emma the whole book. He kept saying “meet me where I am” all because he wanted a girl he knew for a few weeks to give up her entire life to raise his siblings with him in Minnesota? And the way he spoke about her getting help in his last chapter really felt like he hated her. Like she had gone through such hell and he spent six months moping about how she should’ve stayed with him?? No, actually she shouldn’t have, she couldn’t have healed her trauma and PTSD while maintaining  a healthy relationship for the first time and raising three children. He just really angered me.

Pretty negative review, but it actually isn’t a bad book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Abandonment

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Vomit, Medical content

Minor: Car accident, Death of parent