Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Fly With Me by Andie Burke

19 reviews

aboyer's review

challenging emotional medium-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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Mental illness

mel_j's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad medium-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

1.25

Both Olive and Stella were a bit bland. A lot of telling instead of showing in this novel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Lesbophobia, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Transphobia, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Blood, Vomit, Alcohol, and Racism

kal17's review

emotional funny 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

I really liked this one. It was comedic but also serious and had me tearing up a lot. Defenitely some hard topics dealt with, and I think they were dealt with well.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Medical content, Sexual harassment, Mental illness, and Sexual content

Career based sexual harrassment and typical romance novel sexual content. 2.5 spice stars.

hmatt's review

challenging emotional medium-paced

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

3.0

There were parts of this that were very cute, and I think the characterization of the MCs were pretty well done, but I was disappointed by the flimsy fake-dating. It felt sloppily inserted into their otherwise much darker, more challenging (and WAY more interesting) lives. I also wasn't a fan of how the author repeatedly side-steps describing important events by inserting a plot twist - this is hard to describe without spoilers, but it's something that I noticed after it happened more than twice. It felt lazy, and I guess laziness is the main issue I had with the book. The gay-is-okay is a little on the nose at times, and there is a very bad trope-y stalker ex plot

that doesn't get resolved!!!

that I would describe as lazy too. It makes for a weird balance when these bits intersect with the nuanced, well-done exploration of tough topics like  mental health and terminal family illness. I felt these serious bits were well done most of the time

, but even some of these don't get resolved at the end

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcohol, Chronic illness, Gaslighting, Stalking, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Death, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Mental illness

Moderate: Sexism

Minor: Biphobia and Religious bigotry

smleeth93's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Chronic illness, Medical trauma, and Sexual content

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, and Car accident

Minor: Death, Sexism, Transphobia, and Homophobia

amford's review against another edition

dark emotional lighthearted sad medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Biphobia, Chronic illness, Lesbophobia, Death, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Car accident, and Grief

Minor: Sexual harassment, Emotional abuse, and Alcohol

slowburnsrus's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship

Moderate: Medical content, Mental illness, and Stalking

Minor: Car accident

radish_gal's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful sad medium-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Death, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Sexism, Sexual content, Mental illness, and Misogyny

Minor: Lesbophobia

dianafraser17's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

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

1.5

This book is in the wrong genre IMHO. It's largely a book about caregiving, grief, and loss - which is not to say romance or love cannot coexist or happen during those activities, but rather that those activities supercede the pacing and dynamics of a romcom structure. 

I skipped 100 pages in the middle. It's deeply sad and anxiety-producing amidst stalker tendencies, family feuds over a loved one's final wishes, and sexism. Are the depictions of those things accurate? Yes. Are they a great space to foster or provoke romcom plotlines? Not really. 

There are also some cruel things said to one another that they gloss over to get to the ending, and I don't love that. 

Mostly I'm sad, disgruntled, and unsatisfied, and need to go calm down. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Sexism, Child death, Stalking, Terminal illness, Death, and Emotional abuse

joannchristine's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted sad tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Bullying, Car accident, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicidal thoughts