Reviews tagging 'Grief'

How It Feels to Float by Helena Fox

29 reviews

autienaut's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

Hauntingly beautiful, so incredibly raw and honest I will never have the words to do this book justice 🖤

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders and Grief

Moderate: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Death of parent

cecilielaugesen's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense 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? It's complicated

4.5

This book is so beautifully written, it’s like the sadness and awfulness jumps from the page. 
The plot was tragic, but felt so realistic and relatable!
It’s one of those stories where you see it’s going in a devastating direction, Biz is getting more and more derailed, but you can’t do anything but follow her.
Definitely understood it a lot better on my second read though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Dysphoria

lottie1803's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Toxic friendship

neliadiedenise's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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

Graphic: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

Moderate: Child death, Cursing, Death, Homophobia, Medical trauma, Car accident, Outing, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

victoria_bnb's review

emotional funny sad fast-paced

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

4.0

I really like the writing. I thought the author accurately represented depressing thoughts and represented what depression can feel like.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Mental illness, and Grief

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, and Death of parent

revolutiondeathsquad's review

emotional reflective sad 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

3.0

I really really liked this book but I feel it is probably better suited to someone way younger than me. I feel like this could be a 5 star book for someone in the 16-19 age range. Still a great read though!!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness and Grief

calamityin's review

challenging emotional sad slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Death of parent, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Ableism, Cursing, and Car accident

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Blood, Kidnapping, Abandonment, and Alcohol

kelsreadsthings's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Death of parent

Minor: Homophobia

ourgraylives's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

kirb's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad 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? N/A

3.5

This book focuses on Elizabeth Grey. It talks about mental health, and it goes in depth with it. There are many parts of the book where it shows you how Elizabeth herself sees the world around her and it also shows her feelings she has in the book. The relationships she makes in the book, help her find out more about her

dad. She wants to learn more about him and where he grew up, so she takes a journey with one of her close friends to find out more about him. she ends up having a tragic incident which leads her to stay in a psychiatric hospital. there she meets her bestfriend, but the bestfriend is so shocked with Elizabeth's health, she couldnt take it so she left. she would occasionally send Biz emails and text messages, but Biz wouldn't open them nor respond, because to her Grace was dead. Towards the end of the book she finds happiness and she's glad she went on that adventure. She is happy to be herself again. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Medical content, Kidnapping, and Medical trauma

Minor: Bullying, Gun violence, and Grief