Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

In Limbo by Deb JJ Lee

38 reviews

frenchpants's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicide attempt, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Body shaming, Racism, Mental illness, and Bullying

Minor: Alcohol and Fatphobia

flamesocks's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Toxic friendship, Mental illness, Suicide, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

hoops_literary_library_life's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Bullying

aformeracceleratedreader's review against another edition

medium-paced

3.0

A memoir that was heavier than I expected. Touches on lots of topics so check trigger/content warnings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Bullying, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Gaslighting, Medical content, and Racism

drbex's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

A tough but important story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Mental illness

thechroniclesofsiania's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Violence, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Mental illness

jackie_marion's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Dysphoria, Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, Suicide attempt, Racial slurs, and Grief

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Emotional abuse, and Self harm

Minor: Infidelity

questingnotcoasting's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

I thought this was such a beautiful read, mostly because I really loved the illustrations. I loved the way using one colour highlighted the textures and the blue theme matched the melancholy tone of the story perfectly - it's slow paced and it's a very personal coming of age narrative, dealing with some heavy themes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Violence, Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Bullying, and Racism

Moderate: Body shaming

mudlizard's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

picked this up and read a bit, wasn't in the mood. returned to it later and devoured it in one sitting. cried so much. didn't realize how much i'd relate to it, growing up as a mentally ill child at a similar time. tender and weirdly nostalgic for a childhood fraught with conflict (and good stuff too). don't have the same background as Lee but I really related to that disconnect with one's heritage as diaspora. gorgeous and devastating art (though the softer blue ink choice was a bit hard on my eyes personally). I really wish I had this when I was a teen.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse

Moderate: Mental illness and Suicide attempt

bookishsapphicshay's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Suicide attempt, and Mental illness

Moderate: Infidelity, Bullying, and Self harm