Reviews tagging 'Dysphoria'

Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin

21 reviews

beeper's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Outing, Alcohol, and Dysphoria

Minor: Infidelity, Vomit, Dementia, Religious bigotry, and Car accident

mvenable's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Alcohol

Moderate: Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Dysphoria

ashslibrary's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.0

An interesting read and really fucking depressing. I had to stop and close the book a few times just to think about the things that Gilda was saying.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Chronic illness, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, and Dysphoria

Minor: Alcoholism, Biphobia, Death, Homophobia, Misogyny, Self harm, Suicide, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Car accident, and Lesbophobia

nicoledgn's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-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

Raw, vivid perspective of depression and anxiety. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Grief, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Homophobia and Lesbophobia

kathleenivy's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious reflective medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Car accident

Moderate: Alcoholism, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Vomit, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Body horror, Drug use, Self harm, Blood, Dementia, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

parislexi's review against another edition

dark funny reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Grief, Murder, and Dysphoria

danaaliyalevinson's review against another edition

dark emotional funny 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

4.0

This book was a quick read and oftentimes laugh out loud funny. As someone who deals with an anxiety disorder, I thought it was a great representation of what untreated anxiety looks like. I also thought the way that the book physically laid out intrusive thoughts, circuitous thinking, and catastrophizing, on the page to be really on point and effective. There was some genre bending stuff that didn’t really work for me. And also

the subplot with Eli was ill-advised imho. I’m a trans woman. Professionally, I am a writer, and I’m also a transgender media consultant. While the storyline wasn’t necessarily offensive, it treated Eli’s trans identity as a sidebar and also made it all about the external experience (his hair, the stealing of clothes, the nail polish, etc). It was very basic and I found it unnecessary and not given enough space to be good trans representation. Also I am using he/him pronouns to refer to this character because those are the only pronouns used in the book and in an imaginary world where this person is real, we don’t yet know what pronouns he’d use.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Religious bigotry, Car accident, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Bullying, Medical content, Dementia, Fire/Fire injury, and Dysphoria

itsbumley's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Death, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Transphobia, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Cannibalism, and Car accident

nialiversuch's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective sad medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Death, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Cursing, Eating disorder, Misogyny, Medical content, Dementia, Car accident, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Vomit

loraora's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Grief

Moderate: Alcoholism, Medical content, and Alcohol

Minor: Animal death, Drug use, Homophobia, Self harm, Suicide, Vomit, Pregnancy, and Dysphoria