Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Te daría el mundo by Jandy Nelson, Victoria Simó Perales

11 reviews

brookey8888's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring relaxing 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

4.0

This was really enjoyable. It was harder hitting than I thought it was going to be. I honestly forgot what this was about so it was basically a mystery to me. I loved a lot of the topics discussed like grief and family and coming of age as while as sexuality. I really enjoyed the characters even though they were really quirky. I didn’t really love the writing style and how everything was described like it was to arty for me. Which makes sense why because they are artists but it was too much for me at times. Also I didn’t love the age gap of a 16 year old and a 19 year old. They did discuss it but then they just continued on. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Outing, Suicide attempt, Car accident, Death of parent, Grief, Homophobia, Death, Addiction, Alcohol, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Adult/minor relationship

anneroza's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Bullying, Grief, Suicide attempt, Addiction, and Death of parent

Moderate: Car accident, Infidelity, Rape, Drug use, Homophobia, Medical content, Mental illness, Outing, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, and Violence

nenya's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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

4.75

I read this book to come out of a reading slump and oh boi, did it help. I think I knew what I was getting into when I started it - turns out I was wrong, luckily I guess. It seems like a love story at first and it is, but not how you‘d imagine it to be. While the romantic relationships play an important part for the plot and are very well done but actually it is about the love between twins who lose and find each other several times over the years. It’s got some great life lessons, inspirations and is generally a very well rounded , enjoyable story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, Gaslighting, Grief, Toxic relationship, and Abandonment

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Addiction, Chronic illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Terminal illness

Minor: Bullying and Homophobia

cepbreed's review against another edition

emotional hopeful 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? Yes

5.0

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHGH I CANNOT PUT MY LOVE FOR THIS BOOK INTO WORDS. I’m literally using every little neuron in my brain right now to type out these stupid sentences. These characters are so alive, I feel like I know and love them like a bestfriend. It’s like we’ve laughed and cried together and sending them off when I finished this book just crushed me. I wish I could read this forever, embed myself in the pages. I wish I could create art like this -writing or painting- but that means I haven’t learned shit from reading this. It doesn’t matter if I’m good, it doesn’t matter if I’m shit. I’m probably both at once. In the beginning I was so attached to Noah, I felt that he and I were too similar, then comes along Jude and it’s that same feeling a second time. Never have I felt like this twice in one book. It’s a quarter to one and I’m having a full blown crisis. Usually I assign a song to every book I finish but I don’t know anything that’ll sum up this experience (I STAND CORRECTED LOL)

Song: 

• Lost It to Trying - Son Lux 
• this is me trying - Taylor Swift 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Death, Outing, Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Grief, Homophobia, Infidelity, and Bullying

Moderate: Car accident, Drug use, Medical content, Sexual harassment, Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Self harm, and Sexual content

Minor: Mental illness and Injury/Injury detail

eurydice_books_09's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring 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? It's complicated

5.0

When I first started this book, I had no motivation to read it and was kind of iffy about it (that might be cause I read it for my school read for the unit), but then toward the end once everything started connecting I was so interested and was getting like whiplash from it all. It was truly such a beautiful book and honestly still haven’t processed it all. I recommend it a lot, especially if you’ve dealt with Greif or loss of any kind, it truly gave me a wake up call a bit and made me feel more grateful for my brother. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Mental illness, Death of parent, Homophobia, Grief, Drug use, Addiction, Death, Cursing, and Car accident

cayy's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced

3.75

while i liked the writing style and some ideas discussed, the plot felt weirdly chunky and i hate certain characters because of how they were written, it was like a good soup that was ruined by too many undercooked ingredients 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

hutaoghost's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Bullying, Car accident, Death of parent, Drug use, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Outing, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Violence

caitnicholla's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective relaxing 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

3.25

Although I did finish this book quite quickly, and I thoroughly enjoyed its writing style, the plot just folded together too nicely for my liking by the end, any would-be morally grey characters were redeemed and felt underdeveloped!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Death of parent, Homophobia, and Mental illness

roseadelia's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, and Mental illness

Moderate: Sexual content and Suicide attempt

Minor: Addiction

delainymaynes's review against another edition

emotional inspiring 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Car accident, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Homophobia, Mental illness, Outing, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Sexual content