Reviews tagging 'Outing'

Heartstopper Volume 4 by Alice Oseman

305 reviews

luca_max's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring sad slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Mental illness, and Self harm

Moderate: Biphobia, Homophobia, Bullying, Outing, and Panic attacks/disorders

amartinios's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective 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

5.0

Ik heb dit boek net voor de tweede keer gelezen, zoals ik ook de eerste drie volumes heb herlezen, ter voorbereiding voor het lezen van het nieuw uitgegekomen vijfde volume.

Tot dusver is dit boek misschien het meest emotionele, gezien de moeilijke onderwerpen die aan bod komen. In het bijzonder verwijs ik hiermee naar de mentale gezondheidsproblemen, eetstoornis, en nieuw gediagnosticeerde OCD van Charlie. Het is prachtig om te lezen over Charlie's worsteling met deze problemen, de liefde en steun die Nick hem geeft, en hoe deze problemen niet magischerwijze genezen en weggaan. Charlie blijft worstelen, ook wanneer het beter gaat, hij hervalt hier en daar in zelfschadend gedrag, maar hij blijft gesteund worden door zijn geliefden en blijft vooruitploeteren.
Het is zo uitzonderlijk en fantastisch om deze onderwerpen zo goed vertegenwoordigd te zien worden, de moeilijkheden die ermee gepaard gaan, zonder ook het ietwat onschuldige en hoopvolle karakter van de serie te verliezen.

Zoals altijd, een meesterlijke werk van Alice Oseman.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Eating disorder

Moderate: Self harm, Biphobia, and Homophobia

Minor: Outing

writewithapendragon's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Self harm, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Outing, and Eating disorder

arcus's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, Mental illness, Self harm, Homophobia, Outing, Cursing, and Emotional abuse

trisreadssometimes's review against another edition

fast-paced

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

5.0

I cannot rate this series anything but five stars. Sorry not sorry. Nick and Charlie have my heart and so do the rest of the characters!!!!

I absolutely love that Alice Oseman touched upon codependency in this volume!!! Very relatable first relationship experience. Every topic is handled with such grace while also keeping things realistic. Acknowledging that mental health might be a life-long battle is a hard to swallow pill for most (me lol), but it does give you a new perspective on how to handle it better rather than trying to get rid of it. Seeing Charlie and Nick come to that realisation was cathartic!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Eating disorder, and Mental illness

Moderate: Biphobia, Homophobia, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Outing

kaitieg97's review

emotional hopeful reflective slow-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

5.0

Nothing but love

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Outing, and Mental illness

Moderate: Biphobia, Homophobia, and Self harm

abbyycadabbyy's review against another edition

3.5

     This book got kinda dark, I thought this was the best one out of all the books. I liked how the end was the journal entries.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Eating disorder, Homophobia, and Outing

mfrisk's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective 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

3.75

This is another great read in the series which goes a bit more in depth on topics of mental illness, codependency in relationships, and navigating difficult family and friend relationships.

 I enjoyed this one for the most part but similarly to the last book felt like some topics as explained felt like the characters should already have had more base knowledge on as teenagers in high school. One example in this read I can think of is the page where both Nick and Charlie are wondering if boys can have eating disorders. Moments like these sort of take me out of the story a bit because it seems odd the characters wouldn’t know or understand that at their age and having grown up on the internet. That’s not to say some things can’t still be new to people - but I would think the conversations could go a bit further. 

Otherwise though I really loved this book and that it emphasized that romantic relationships aren’t the end all be all and that mental health is a journey and not a one-episode arc. Those themes to me were really great messages. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Mental illness

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Medical content

Minor: Outing and Homophobia

litbrett's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Mental illness, Cursing, Outing, and Panic attacks/disorders

katievallin's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Mental illness, Outing, Medical content, Cursing, Homophobia, and Grief

Moderate: Self harm