Reviews tagging 'Bullying'

Rooms by Lauren Oliver

3 reviews

coymeld's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

1.5

Touching passages about grief are ruined by the

anti-abortion

propaganda twist ending.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Car accident, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

bookbug26's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

4.0

Unbelievable.
So many twists and turns, I'm genuinely speechless. 

Check the warnings please, other than that, what a strong story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Car accident, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

ninaevan's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

I’m having a hard time giving this one a 3.75 bc usually the books I put in that category are weakly written or sorta “fluffy” but I enjoyed them so I give them more than 3.5, just not quite 4. In this case. The writing was fairly sophisticated and enjoyable, but the plot was just too lacking to give it a 4.
At 200(of 300) pages I was still waiting for something to happen with these characters that had been so developed. A few things happened but nothing like the bang I was expecting (or hoping for). I often enjoy character-over-plot type books but the characters in this book didn’t engage me enough to carry the story. There was no one I particularly cared for or rooted for or even hated enough.
Also, for a ghost story, the ghosts really didn’t contribute much. They were semi involved with one of the characters but I would have liked to see more from them. The whole ghost aspect just didn’t contribute much to the story despite being a selling plot point of the book.

For a further discussion of my thoughts, check out the next episode of my podcast: Books without Borders. https://anchor.fm/books-wo-borders

My scoring: 
5.00 | = everyone in the world must read this book 
4.75 | = between 4.5 and 5
4.50 | = dessert island book
4.25 | = between 4 and 4.5
4.00 | = great, solid, recommendable book
3.75 | = almost a 4, but not quite 
3.50 | = not a 4, but I had a good time
3.25 | = rough patches, but not bad
3.00 | = meh, read-able but nothing to write home about
2.75 | = between a 2.5 and 3
2.50 | = there’s something I liked here but it wasn’t enough to be good 
2.25 | = between a 2 and 2.5
2.00 | = not good and there was nothing I liked 
1.00 | = bad

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Vomit, Grief, Car accident, Abortion, and Fire/Fire injury