Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

25 reviews

gubler2003's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

• 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

3.75

Touches on the complexity of physical disabilities and love as well as how to live in a world whoch is not catered for you. Both characters have a 'quirk' which is not accepted whether it's Will's disability or Lou's eccentricity 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, and Suicide attempt

I sobbed after Will's death

asurasantosha's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad 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

I don't know how I feel about this book. The prose didn't blow my mind despite seeming like it was trying to at times. But in that sense, the writing was good.

The themes of this book are really challenging though and broaching a controversial topic and showing all the nuance and grey area, I think was done really well.

I still don't know how I feel about the conclusion of everything though. I'm trying to separate my conflict about the topic at hand with the characters involved. Like, while I loved the banter between Will and Louisa, at the end of the day, I'm not sure Will is a good person. And I think he seems quite shallow and unwavering in those shallow values. But I think we the reader is supposed to feel sympathy for him and maybe even try to route for him or care about his intentions and logic. But his intense certainly is just so off-putting to me. Idk.

Anyway, I think this book is supposed to be a bit uncomfortable and it's supposed to make you think (and cry). So I'm not gonna rate it on enjoyment. I'd rather rate it on the success of what it's set out to do. And this book may be very successful in that regard. But I'm just gonna give it 3 stars for now because I'm still working out wether or not the theme is resting on an overly convenient lack of arc and too static character and wether or not that's ok.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Medical content, Grief, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Confinement, Infidelity, Rape, Dementia, Car accident, and Alcohol

Minor: Blood and Vomit

marylouisa_'s review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-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? Yes

3.5

This will always be one of my favorite books. It made me laugh, love, and cry all at the same time. The way Lou narrates her feelings makes you feel like you were in the story too. I was so sad when Will still decided to go with his plan, I cried for days after finishing the book! Yet, it will make you realize that sometimes all you can do is just stay with them until the last moment and that you cannot blame anyone even yourself for a decision they made. Sometimes all you can do is make them feel heard, loved, important and valued.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Grief, Car accident, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Bullying, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

katlinstirling_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

Completely heartbreaking! Sobbing my heart out, great read if you are needing something you can laugh and cry at. I completely adore Will & Lou! The last few chapters really got me! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail

mallorytyler's review against another edition

emotional slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Chronic illness, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Car accident

asourceoffiction'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

4.0

There's so much I can't say about this because I don't want to give any part of the story away. But oh this book hit all of my emotions. I was so glad I went in not knowing much at all; it deals with such complicated and upsetting moral issues, but still drags the joy out of every moment that it can.

I loved that so many of the minor characters got a chapter to really get into their mindset, and see part of Lou's story from the outside. It showed all the different sides of the story and made me more sensitive to how everyone felt. And even the unlikable characters (like Patrick and Steven) had motivations you could understand and nothing was a simple case of right or wrong.

Will's struggles were hard to read about and it's easy to see why he's so closed off at first. But as Lou understands him better, so do we. And there is so much humour in the book, particularly between Lou and Will but also in little throwaway scenes (the altercation with Lou's neighbours is just brilliant).

Right up to the end I had no idea what was going to happen. This might be the first time I can remember having to physically cover up the next pages in a book so I wouldn't skip ahead to see how it ends, I was that desperate to know.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Mental illness and Sexual assault

keestan's review against another edition

emotional funny 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

4.0

Picked this up because I watched the movie and absolutely love it. Moyes does a fantastic job creating characters that you immediately route for, flaws and all.

Having watched the movie, I knew the tragedy that was waiting for me at the end of the book but somehow I was so swept up in the story, I found myself holding out hope that this would be a happy ending.

I loved Moyes's almost comical writing style and immediately reached for book 2. Spoiler alert: this is a trilogy!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness and Suicide

Minor: Injury/Injury detail

geneav21's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted sad fast-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? It's complicated

4.0

My favorite romance book, even though I’m not a romance girlie; this book broke my heart but still has a place there. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Deadnaming, Death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Medical content, Grief, and Medical trauma

a_augustine12's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted 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

5.0

This book was beautiful. It was beautifully written, everything. I’d already seen the movie about a dozen times, so I wanted to try the book. As most people say, “The book is usually better.” That is an understatement here. If you haven’t read this book, you are seriously missing out. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Car accident, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Ableism, Mental illness, Self harm, and Medical content

itsbumley's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Death, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol