Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

You'd Be Home Now by Kathleen Glasgow

40 reviews

booksofautumn's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

danaaliyalevinson's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

So, I admittedly went into this one not realizing it's YA, which is not my genre. That said, considering this as a YA book, I think it's an important read about teenage addiction and its impact on families that many teenagers are going to feel seen in. 

I was also heartened by its brave ending that refused to give easy answers, and even further heartened by the author's note explaining her own addiction and sobriety journey, which is most certainly a big part of why, for me, as someone who also has a history of addiction and several years sober at this point, the narrative felt so honest.

Sometimes it did feel like that YA thing where an adult author is imagining what kids these days are like and it's not quite right. 

But overall, a good read and I think an important YA entry.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Sexual content, Grief, Car accident, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Classism

wishyouweresober's review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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

This book broke my heart in so many ways. Justice for Emory and Joey...they just deserve to be happy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Violence, Car accident, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Death, Sexism, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Minor: Sexual content

This book deals with A LOT of triggering things. So please check the warnings before reading.

addidason's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Mental illness

Moderate: Car accident and Sexual harassment

Minor: Alcoholism, Self harm, Suicide, Terminal illness, and Pregnancy

erose119's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Mental illness, Car accident, and Sexual harassment

kaitlynellataylor's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Mental illness, and Car accident

Moderate: Bullying

Minor: Cancer

pages_rewritten's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Addiction, Bullying, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Grief, Car accident, and Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Suicide attempt

lindseyhall44's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes

4.0

A thought provoking read on addiction and its affect on others, this novel is hard to forget.
“You’d be Home by Now,” follows Emory as her brother struggles with addiction and what it means to truly recover. It was an interesting choice to depict this struggle from the eyes of a loved one instead of the person dealing with addiction, but one I truly appreciated. From a different standpoint readers saw the impact of drugs on everyone around the user, shaping life as they know it.
The conversation surrounding this topic were handled well, and so were discussions on slut shaming and economic class.
There were some plot points which weren’t my favorite as well as social media and gen z comments which felt forced. It was hard for me to rate this unbiased, because How to Make Friends with the dark was such a staple in my own grieving process.
Overall, I would recommend (but please check trigger warnings before reading).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, and Car accident

Moderate: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, and Abandonment

Minor: Chronic illness

prachidayal's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

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

3.0

• Easy read (4 - 6 hours)
• There was a lot of ‘white woman rainbow and sunshine’ bullshit. The whole movement thing was reminiscent of Moxie. The author, in both books, seems detached from the reality of teenagers. This stuff never happens. In both books, I hated the inclusion of social media because it was so poorly executed. The voices of teenagers written by Glasgow are so unrealistic, it makes me cringe. Also, Em having no knowledge of nudes and sexting made no sense. Lastly, the whole school bullying stuff was overdone and dramatic.
• I liked this book better than “How to Make Friends With the Dark.” The writing felt more mature, though I still found myself confused about the characters’ ages.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Mental illness

Minor: Child abuse and Sexual harassment

jil_m's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad 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? Yes

4.75

A book about an invisible girl with a lot of vision. 

Summary:
We follow Emory, a freshman who is traumatized by a car crash. Her brother, Joey is in rehab, to slowly get rid of his drug addiction. After the summer holiday she has to get back to school where she gets confronted by a girls death caused by her? Joey is not doing well, even in rehab he had more freedom. Their parents are making a cage for both of them. Joey has no life anymore and Emory has to deal with two awful lives. But they will escape, eventually. 

Review: 
She did it. Kathleen Glasgow did it once again. She made me cry, laugh, freak out, fell in love, think about life and many more emotions I can’t explain. This is a story that many others experience. “There are many other Emory’s and Joeys who should not be invisible.” And the writing made it even more real. Her way of describing situations, characters and feelings is absolutely incredible. Books are made to be thought about, and this novel really succeeded that mission. 
:))

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, and Car accident