Reviews tagging 'Child death'

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

21 reviews

goldnhabitx's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Drug use, Alcohol, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Mental illness, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Child death, Violence, and Suicide

Minor: Abortion, Alcoholism, Death, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Sexual content, Rape, and Infidelity

michaelion's review

reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

This is my full review, the paragraph following is just nitpicking: Everything about that boy is gay and autistic and it makes no sense that he isn't. That's it. That's my review. Thanks for reading.

Maybe it's me, maybe I missed something, maybe I gotta give it a reread but I feel like the childhood assault was placed in there randomly at the end. It didn't feel wrong, but it didn't feel right. Not like csa ever could, but there's a time and place, ideally, and this just didn't make as much sense narratively, especially that close to the end. I suppose one could argue real life is full of surprises and the book is supposed to depict that, but to that I say bullshit. Little moments here and there about his auntie, alright, but it's a very touchy subject and I don't think it got the respect and conversation it deserved. So, negative points.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Child abuse, Bullying, Homophobia, Rape, Pedophilia, and Drug use

Minor: Child death, Suicide, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Murder, Mental illness, Racism, and Racial slurs

kiran__'s review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

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

5.0

It was quite relatable in a way. Quite sad. Follows a boy's life through his childhood/ teenage years. I think the story behind it is very intriguing and it offers depth into the life and emotions of a regular person. His shy and awkward persona really resonated with me, it made me connect with in on a really personal level.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Homophobia, and Child death

Moderate: Rape and Mental illness

readerreading234's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

This is a really good book but a bit heavy at parts so just be prepared :) i hope you like(d) it as much as i did!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Mental illness, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Abortion, Alcoholism, Death, Body shaming, Physical abuse, Outing, Drug use, Drug abuse, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, Rape, Addiction, Alcohol, Grief, Cursing, and Child death

Minor: Body shaming, Eating disorder, and Medical content

koplomps's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Homophobia, and Alcohol

Moderate: Child abuse, Drug use, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide, Drug abuse, and Pedophilia

Minor: Infidelity, Racism, Vomit, Child death, Incest, and Pregnancy

rory_john14's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Sexual violence, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Child abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Alcoholism, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexism, Alcohol, Grief, Misogyny, Outing, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Addiction, Drug use, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Abortion, Car accident, Eating disorder, Medical content, Pregnancy, Incest, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Dementia, Emotional abuse, Racism, Vomit, Child death, Toxic friendship, and Bullying

thestorydoer's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful 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

3.25

Going into this book, I thought I was genuinely going to hate it. I personally feel the film is the best coming of age film Ive ever seen, and starting this book did not make me feel hopeful. 

For the first 70 pages of this book, the story moves at a breakneck pace, which was quite problematic because as this is an emotional story, it introduced very serious themes very quickly which didn't give me a lot of room to feel the gravity of the situation it was. 

However, after the first 70 pages, the book flips a switch. The pacing decelerates almost immediately into something which is still fast, but far more comfortable to read. The characters are given so much depth. The book suddenly becomes a very intelligent and important piece of YA Fiction. 

If the whole book were like those final 160 pages, this would've easily been a 4.5 star review. However, inconsistency is hard to look past and I didn't enjoy reading the first 70 pages which is a too large a portion of the book for me to look past it. 

The author wrote the screenplay for this book and adapted it into something holistically more consistent which I am glad for. I believe after the 70 pages, all the themes discussed were discussed maturely, naturally, and intelligently. Be careful for the trigger warnings though, as this book can be quite confronting at times.

Overall, a 4.5 star book dragged down by it's 1.5 star introduction due to very poor pacing. Holistically 3.25/5 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion, Pedophilia, and Rape

Minor: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Suicide, and Child death

lida_magg's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Addiction, Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Grief, Homophobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, and Sexual harassment

sarahsbookss's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Alcohol, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Grief, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Toxic relationship

shio's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault and Child abuse

Minor: Suicide, Self harm, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Homophobia, Car accident, Alcohol, Racism, Child death, Pedophilia, Outing, and Domestic abuse