Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven

16 reviews

radioheadfan's review

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Mental illness, Alcohol, Grief, Drug use, Car accident, and Suicidal thoughts

mnatale100's review

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Death, Child abuse, Grief, Suicide, Bullying, Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Vomit, Self harm, and Infidelity

Minor: Cursing, Eating disorder, Sexual content, Animal death, Alcohol, and Domestic abuse

psliz's review

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

2.0

loved it in high school, not so much now with their problematic mental health representation 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Death, and Mental illness

Moderate: Alcohol, Drug use, Physical abuse, and Ableism

Minor: Homophobia

chuckielittle's review

challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

It's exceptionally hard to rate this book, relating to and having lived so many of its events personally. The characters felt believable and real for once (which is rare in a YA novel) and weren't in the least irritating.

Parts of it did feel an awful lot like info-dumping, but it was all important, valuable, and relevant information that added to the storyline and filled it out more.

Heartbreaking, hopeful, and cathartic, to sum up.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Mental illness, and Bullying

Moderate: Death, Toxic relationship, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Car accident, Alcohol, Self harm, Animal death, Suicide attempt, Suicide, and Child abuse

mirandap442's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Self harm, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicide attempt, Death, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Moderate: Sexual content, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Bullying, Cursing, Emotional abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Gaslighting, Animal death, Drug use, Alcohol, Blood, Racial slurs, and Racism

charlie1995's review

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Definitely check content warnings before reading this book!

This book was hard to read. I felt like it did a good job of depicting how suicide, depression and mental illness through the lens of teenagers with how flawed (For lack of a better word) their thinking is. I feel like despite some of the flaws this is an important book. My only real issue with it is how much blame Violet put on herself foe

Spoiler

Finch’s death.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Domestic abuse, Self harm, Suicide, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Car accident, and Child death

Moderate: Eating disorder

Minor: Alcohol and Injury/Injury detail

haorey's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicide attempt, Grief, Violence, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Chronic illness, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Addiction, Child abuse, Grief, Medical content, Sexual content, Alcohol, Bullying, Physical abuse, and Sexual assault

Minor: Animal death, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Bullying, and Toxic friendship

jasmine_0206's review

adventurous emotional sad fast-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

3.75

This book was okay, It had so many great quotes and I loved the way the characters interacted and the different POVs. However I feel as if there could have been more, just more detail and the writing was definitely geared towards the YA audience.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Drug abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, and Physical abuse

Minor: Animal death, Bullying, Alcohol, Car accident, Eating disorder, and Gaslighting

kirsty_irwin's review

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring lighthearted sad fast-paced

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

4.5

If you liked The Fault in Our Stars, Five Feet Apart, Everything Everything, or Speak… then you will love this book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Child death, Death, Bullying, Suicide attempt, Car accident, Mental illness, Grief, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Violence

Minor: Forced institutionalization, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Sexual content, Alcohol, Car accident, Physical abuse, and Confinement

chipsqul's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective sad 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Death, and Suicide

Minor: Alcohol

would give you a good cry <3