Reviews tagging 'Eating disorder'

If He Had Been with Me by Laura Nowlin

62 reviews

trisjt's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-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

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Eating disorder, Mental illness, Rape, Self harm, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Car accident, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

calscozycorner's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

bella_i's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Eating disorder and Suicide attempt

lindsaymc74's review against another edition

emotional sad slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Pregnancy

I had seen many tik toks about this book so I had high expectations. I kinda already had an idea of how it ended going into it. However I felt the last 50 ish pages of the book felt extremely rushed, whereas the rest of the book dragged on. It took me soooooo long to get through the first half of the book because of how slow it was. If the book’s pace was a lot faster, I probably would’ve given it 5 stars. Overall worth the read tho.

dtzypig'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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Pregnancy

Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Suicide, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol

Minor: Eating disorder and Sexual assault

brooklyndays's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

Moderate: Eating disorder, Infidelity, and Vomit

Minor: Miscarriage

strangeweather98's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Car accident, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, and Abandonment

Minor: Eating disorder, Infidelity, Mental illness, Rape, Toxic relationship, Grief, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

shaleen64's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.5

A slow burn romance that most readers will be able to relate to; loving someone but missing your opportunity to be with them. 

The book centres on Autumn and Finn through their schooling years, which gives a YA genre feel, but without the writing style to match. 

The book will have you laughing, longing and crying. It’s worth the read if you enjoy a romance.

*Spoiler*
I do feel the ending was rushed and had we of had more time getting to know Autumn and Finn within a romantic relationship together the ending would have had a greater emotional pull. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Death, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Miscarriage, and Car accident

katie_23's review against another edition

hopeful mysterious sad medium-paced

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

5.0

this book is one of my FAVS, it’s so sad yet kept me on the edge of my seat. i would definitely get both the books because you’ll want to read the sequel. literally love the characters and the book!! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Car accident, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Eating disorder and Suicidal thoughts

vikart's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

This book is about a girl, to put it simply, going through her teenage years and discovering how she feels about different things.

I did enjoy the fact that I was put in a position where I could clearly understand why the main character felt in such ways at different parts of the story. Though, I think that it was a little bit predictable. The only thing I did not expect was the last twist since I was led to believe that the last 30 pages will be a simple epilogue. Unfortunately, I picked this up because I was expecting something to make me cry, but instead I just thought it was all complicated and the ending annoyed me rather than offering me a teary moment.

Despite all my words, I do think this is a good book. There are a lot of upsetting topics that can really grab in your feelings (even in my case where it was annoyance rather than sadness), just beware of the topics in this book as they may or may not touch you personally.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, and Pregnancy