Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Heartstopper Volume 4 by Alice Oseman

54 reviews

michelle_my_belle's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Eating disorder, Medical content, Outing, and Mental illness

Moderate: Homophobia, Biphobia, and Self harm

Minor: Transphobia

charliewarliee's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective 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

5.0

Heartstopper Volume 4 is an amazing book, and my favourite in the series so far! They are an amazing set of books and I’m honoured I got to read them! I love how Oseman deals with mental health and how she recognises that different treatment helps different people!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Eating disorder, Outing, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Bullying, Homophobia, and Suicidal thoughts

tilo's review

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Eating disorder

Moderate: Outing, Biphobia, Bullying, Self harm, Cursing, Homophobia, and Medical content

Minor: Transphobia and Hate crime

miles's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Eating disorder, and Mental illness

Moderate: Self harm

hannah_and_her_stories's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Eating disorder

Moderate: Biphobia, Bullying, Homophobia, and Self harm

Minor: Medical content and Transphobia

sophieamreacher's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative lighthearted reflective 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

5.0

Gosh my heart hurts. So nice to see a teen romance that doesn’t have love fixing everything though. I love these two.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Biphobia, Bullying, Self harm, Mental illness, Eating disorder, Homophobia, and Abandonment

aformeracceleratedreader's review against another edition

lighthearted fast-paced

4.0

Also didn't love this one like the first two but I appreciate the discussion on mental health. The discussion of eating disorders/disordered eating still made me uncomfy as it's something I struggle with from time to time though.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder, Medical content, and Mental illness

hewbear13's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder, Medical content, Self harm, and Mental illness

Minor: Bullying and Outing

cozyreader9752's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Bullying, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Self harm, and Transphobia

piperclover's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted 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? No

4.5

I really enjoy the way mental health and illnesses are described in a light hearted but still serious way.  It's dealt with appropriately but it's not so heavy that it feels a pit in your stomach. I absolutely love that therapy and medical intervention is so well highlighted and encouraged in this series. There's a whole lot of nuances but it's really nice to see, especially in the context of teenagers. The other thing I love is that Nick flat out tells his dad and brother off and says to his dads face that he isn't being a good parent.  I can't stand it when characters, especially teens/young adults, aren't vocal in telling the people hurting them how they're hurting them. 

I think the author has found a very good balance between sounding like authentic teenagers but keeping it clean and not harmful. At the end, Charlie jokes about Tao being homophobic when he complains about Charlie and Nick kissing too much.  That's such a realistic thing for friends to joke about but its never taken any farther so it's always funny. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Medical content, and Mental illness