Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Stars Above by Marissa Meyer

7 reviews

noellegrace8's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced

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

4.0

This is basically like seamless fanfiction because it's done by the author and therefore perfectly congruent with her series. Some stories are better than others, I would venture to say, and The Little Android is a bit of an odd one that breaks away from the rest of them. I was only mildly disappointed because 1, I was hoping more of it would be focused on our main characters rather than random backstory characters, and 2, I thought for certain that the wedding teased in Marissa Meyer's interview was going to be between Winter & Jacin. I wouldn't say I was super disappointed, just surprised, and it ended up making sense that she chose that couple. The ending was very sweet, and I loved the story that showed us Kai's perspective of meeting Cinder.

I feel like I've ranked Rebecca Soler's performances so many times at this point that it's getting redundant, but I can only give her a 4/5 this time around unfortunately, due to whoever produced this audiobook. She was obviously sick or recovering from respiratory illness! I don't understand why they would force her to record before her voice was fully back to its normal state. It made the performance grating, as she sounds clearly stuffed up.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Ableism, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Terminal illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Cursing, Gun violence, Infidelity, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Colonisation, War, Classism, and Deportation

The thematic elements of this entire series would stand to warn about topics revolving around one group of people being willing to rule over another in personal relationships and culturally. This book in particular mentions those concepts but doesn't go into details. The story I would give the biggest trigger warning about would be Winter & Jacin's, "The Princess and the Guard." This is where most the sexual assauly and suicide warnings come into play.

risten's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Mental illness, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: War

inkysplodge's review against another edition

emotional 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Suicide, Blood, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Alcoholism, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Violence, Death of parent, and Pandemic/Epidemic

gattolinos_nerdy_nook's review against another edition

adventurous emotional

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

5.0

I love this world and these characters. This series was what first got me into sci-fi and I'm so happy that we do get these stories to help build out the world before I finish the series until my next reread.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Mental illness, Suicide, and War

Moderate: Xenophobia

msradiosilence's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective sad

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

3.0

TLDR; 3 rating, it’s an anthology, and a couple of these were in the backs of the books already.
Content warnings at the bottom. :)

Every anthology I’ve ever read has had hits and misses. Most of these, unfortunately, were misses. I love The Little Android, which is the one exception, but most of these stories were in the backs of the original books. The one with Cinder’s dad, for example. And when I said I wanted Winter and Jacin’s relationship to be fleshed out, I didn’t mean that I wanted Winter to be unwittingly a player in someone’s continued sexual assault. It’s icky.

I wanted more of the Rampion crew. I know there’s the graphic novels, but I wanted more like the wedding story, which was very short and very rushed, if you ask me. And the fact that Kai upstages it by proposing to Cinder? The story says there’s a time skip, but they both seem like the immature teens they were in the series. UGH.

Rating: 3
Would I recommend? No, you could probably find The Little Android and the Rampion wedding story online somewhere.

Content warnings: Body horror, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Ableism, Child abuse, Bullying, Blood, Genocide, Torture, Violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Gun violence, Death of parent, Child death, Car accident, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Rape, Medical content, War, Pandemic/Epidemic, Death, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Classism, and Body shaming

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

marenm's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.0

CINDER-KAI FANS ARE WINNINGGG

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Blood, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

janaya's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny informative lighthearted reflective sad 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? It's complicated

3.75

Just a collection of short stories about the characters from the series. Some of them were in the past, some weren’t.  I liked some more than others. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Physical abuse, Violence, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail