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ross_emm's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Alcohol, Panic attacks/disorders, and Mental illness
Moderate: Medical content and Blood
cdoubet's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Blood, Eating disorder, Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Violence, Vomit, Drug use, Alcohol, Outing, and Panic attacks/disorders
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Sexual assault and Hate crime
xeniba's review against another edition
- 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
4.25
Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Alcohol, and Alcoholism
Moderate: Drug use
Minor: Adult/minor relationship
therewillbenewsuns's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Alcoholism, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Sexual harassment
Minor: Toxic friendship
emburke's review against another edition
- 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
4.5
Graphic: Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders
Moderate: Cursing, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Addiction, and Eating disorder
Minor: Outing, Drug use, and Adult/minor relationship
a1n2n0a5's review against another edition
- 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
5.0
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Alcoholism
frqnc22's review against another edition
- 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
4.25
Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Alcoholism, Mental illness, and Addiction
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Dysphoria, and Blood
Minor: Bullying
betweentheshelves's review against another edition
- 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
I also appreciated that there's no central romance in this, it's more focused on friendship of the main two characters. They're both trying to figure out their place in the world, and finding each other kind of helps with that. Oseman really just excels at writing those kinds of relationships in her books, and that's what keeps me coming back to them.
Anyway, I can now say that I've read every single one of Alice Oseman's books, so yay! Can't wait for what's to come next.
Graphic: Alcoholism, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders
Moderate: Addiction, Blood, and Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Transphobia, Outing, and Adult/minor relationship
dalek_caan's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- 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
Graphic: Alcoholism, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Panic attacks/disorders, Stalking, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Biphobia, Homophobia, Outing, Transphobia, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Racism, Sexual harassment, Emotional abuse, and Sexual assault
teslis's review against another edition
- 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
Now I've read all the four big books by Alice Oseman and this one is absolutly my favorite one out of them.
In this book we get to follow Angel who is a big fan of the most popular boyband at the time: "The Arc". She is truly one of my favorite character in this book, along with the whole band. Angel feels like a real person with what she say and do. I can totally see us as friends.
The part I really enjoyed with this book, was that we also get to follow Jimmy who is one of the members in "The Arc". He struggles with allot of anxiety both personally, but also from being in the band. To follow his bandmates thinking and doing was a big highlight of this book.
I really felt like Angel allot of time while listening to the audiobook. I think we have allot of similarities, example of that being to have dedicated allot (if not all) of my teenage years to fan-girling over different bands (and fictional characters). Listening to allot of things that she and her friends talked about was something that brought back memories.
I loved to see the differences of the same thing from the two perspectives. That is truly what I liked the most about this book. Some dual p.o.v. can be messy, and hard to understand, but Oseman know how and when to switch and what to keep and what to not. So to live thru Angel as a fan, but also to see Jimmy's point of view as someone in the spotlight was what I loved. To be reminded of the good parts that allot of famous people experience, but most importantly all the bad things that a fan don't see.
I would like all people to read this book, I loved it (!!), but especially all the fans of bands and other real and famous people to see what can be going on behind the cameras. It's not all sunshine and rainbows and it's important to understand that.
Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Alcohol, Medical content, and Mental illness
Moderate: Alcoholism, Vomit, Stalking, and Adult/minor relationship