Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

32 reviews

stephmcoakley's review against another edition

emotional hopeful lighthearted 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Biphobia, Death, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Lesbophobia, and Abandonment

nakole's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

𝓞𝓷𝓮 𝓛𝓪𝓼𝓽 𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓹
By: Casey McQuiston
Contemporary LGBTQ+ Romance

𝒪𝓋𝑒𝓇𝒶𝓁𝓁: 4.5/5
𝒮𝓅𝒾𝒸𝑒: 4/5

𝑅𝑒𝓋𝒾𝑒𝓌: This shit is so cute. Literally fucking giggling out loud, dying on the floor of laughter, and kicking my feet. Honestly, I love that most of the characters are members of the LGBTQIA+ community. It’s nice to read something different than what seems to be the typical. It was so funny and lighthearted but also made me feel all the feels. All the characters are amazing. I feel Noodle the Poodle deserves to be mentioned. The lovely drag queen Annie Depressant also deserves a mention here because honestly the name is enough.

𝒜 𝐹𝒶𝓋𝑜𝓇𝒾𝓉𝑒 𝒬𝓊𝑜𝓉𝑒: “Coffee girl” - Jane “Subway Girl” - August

𝒯𝓇𝑜𝓅𝑒𝓈: Insta-Love; Time Travel; Amnesia; Found Family; Meet Cute

𝒯𝓇𝒾𝑔𝑔𝑒𝓇 𝒲𝒶𝓇𝓃𝒾𝓃𝑔𝓈: Sexual Content (consensual); homophobia/Lesbophobia (mentioned); Alcohol use; drug use; hate crime (mentioned); Police brutality (mentioned); Body Dysphoria

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Homophobia, Mental illness, Grief, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Hate crime, Violence, Police brutality, and Dysphoria

savreads28's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racism, Sexual content, Antisemitism, Grief, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Alcohol

kemperwrites's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Homophobia, Mental illness, Transphobia, and Lesbophobia

fmt23's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing 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

4.0

Come for the L, stay for the BTQ+.

For real, I thought the side characters were a bit more interesting than the main characters

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Biphobia, Homophobia, Mental illness, Transphobia, Xenophobia, Lesbophobia, and Dysphoria

laurenipsum's review against another edition

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Sexual content, Kidnapping, and Grief

carefulfearanddeaddevotion's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

6/5 stars. loooooved it. loved the

subway sex

way less, but the book was enjoyable enough that it could be overlooked. was worried at first, bc chapter 1 August was insufferable, but i'm so glad she let her roommates love her. the supporting cast was very fleshed out and three dimensional, which allowed the book to be as immersive as it was. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Sexual content, and Grief

Moderate: Death, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racism, Xenophobia, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Deadnaming, Drug use, Police brutality, Abandonment, and Alcohol

kappafrog's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

4.0

I really loved this book. The writing was great, the cast of characters sparkled off the page, and the mysteries were really fun with a slow build to unraveling them all. I loved the steamy romance. This book made me feel more confident as a queer woman. It made it easier to imagine a community and I loved the found family. I was totally absorbed while I was reading it and while I had a few quibbles, overall I found it a wonderful world to escape into with a fresh and fun concept.

Edit: dropping my review from 4.5 to 4. When the excitement of being in the story has worn off I have a few more criticisms of some of the racial dynamics in the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Death, Drug use, Hate crime, Homophobia, Police brutality, Grief, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Cultural appropriation, Alcohol, and Classism

Minor: Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

peggy_racham's review against another edition

5.0

Time travel, the subway and saphic romance, what more is there. Very emotional and well writen love story. The amount of detail about the 70's and 80's queer protests was so good. I loved feeling like a part of this little queer family.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racism, Sexual content, Police brutality, Grief, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

Minor: Addiction, Cursing, Death, and Car accident

piphux's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Abandonment

Moderate: Death, Homophobia, Mental illness, Sexual content, Lesbophobia, and Alcohol

Minor: Alcoholism, Biphobia, Drug use, Racism, Transphobia, and Police brutality