Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman

79 reviews

ghostwitch's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense 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

Graphic: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, and Vomit

ghoulomatic's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Mental illness and Suicidal thoughts

ecravens's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Self harm, Medical content, Suicide attempt, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

dilan11's review against another edition

challenging dark funny hopeful 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? Yes

5.0

A wonderful book that I read with a young adult student. It is one of the best books covering mental illness that I have read. The alternating narratives between Caden's life at home and the hospital and then his imagined life on the ship make it so much more readable. It is also funny which helps the reader go deeper into the despair that Caden feels.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

jmeighan's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative slow-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Suicide attempt

eriley's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad medium-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? Yes

4.0

I think I would need to read this a second time to really understand everything that was going on; at times I feel like I wasn't really taking in all the prose. The ending also seemed a bit underwhelming for me. But I really enjoyed this. The short vignettes and the back-and-forth between the "worlds" worked really well, and I think the metaphors weren't too heavy-handed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Suicide and Suicide attempt

buplupblup's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative reflective sad slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Rape and Violence

Minor: Drug abuse

magdie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative 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? It's complicated

4.75

This was a rideeee I loved it. In the beginning I was so confused as to what was going on, what exactly was the ship and the in around the middle of the book it all started to flow together and make sense. This was by far the most interesting book on mental illness and hallucinations I've read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

leonkaspar's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Suicide attempt, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Child abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Suicide attempt

riereeds's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense 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

4.0

This was an amazing story. The confusion at the beginning was totally worth reading through. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Suicide attempt

Minor: Rape