Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Without Merit by Colleen Hoover

103 reviews

petal_01's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Vomit, Terminal illness, Incest, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

lily_sutton's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Animal death, Terminal illness, and Incest

Minor: Homophobia

lindsayjcallaway's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, and Mental illness

leahhmorriss's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

This is literally the first Colleen Hoover book that I haven’t loved. I guess I just wasn’t expecting it? I feel like the lack of a plot let this book down for me, it was definitely a story that was very character driven. And when you don’t love the characters, it’s hard to properly enjoy the book. 
I think all of the characters in this book were extremely fucked up, perhaps not including Sagan. There was a lot of character development for the whole family (and I did end up not hating merit’s dad) however I feel like some things were unforgivable and should’ve not have been that easy to get over

(the main one being Utah literally sexually assaulting his sister).

The overall message about mental health and depression was well written. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Incest, and Mental illness

saoirse10's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

MINOR SPOILER ->

Great book ,a good few plot twists which is always a plus but on many occasions religion has been discriminated against by the characters in this book.Near the end of the book it became quite cringey by the way characters would talk (flirt) with eachother.Apart from the above it was an easy book to get through and I would recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Vomit

Moderate: Medical content, Cancer, Alcohol, Animal death, Medical trauma, Drug use, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, and Panic attacks/disorders

ravenclaw_percabeth's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful 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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Sexual assault, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Animal death, Terminal illness, Incest, and Drug use

Minor: Murder, Genocide, Vomit, Car accident, Cancer, Ableism, Death of parent, Violence, and War

jannetommo's review against another edition

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

2.0

I don’t get it. Did I read a mental health book? A romance? A mystery? I’ve got no clue

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness and Suicide attempt

Minor: Terminal illness, Cancer, and Death

brunick's review against another edition

emotional sad fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, and Suicidal thoughts

reneeschauer's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt and Suicide

Minor: Infidelity, Mental illness, Cancer, and Chronic illness

ashleyneidick's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Sexual assault