Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Gone by Michael Grant

11 reviews

mags1018's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child death, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Violence, Medical content, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

jakubus's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense 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

4.5

Doesn't hold back on the cruelty as well as the hope that arises from severely traumatic situations. Great building of story and characters, and gives each character some sense of redeemability, allowing the reader to, while they will certainly pick a side, at least understand the actions of different characters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

gilmargirl's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Death, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Racism, Violence, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

booklov3r5019's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

4.75

Very very very very violent, a lot of death and a lot of times it is more graphic than not, but it's still an amazing book. I would reccommend this to anyone who likes to cry over books, characters who have some psychological issues, really anything violent.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Addiction

Minor: Cursing, Cannibalism, and Death of parent

hcgambrell's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Eating disorder and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Mental illness and Vomit

123urmom's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Eating disorder, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Torture, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, Racism, Kidnapping, and Alcohol

i live in a small town where slurs are said all the time. i read the rword more times than i’ve heard it in my life???? holy shit????

b0redn0w's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

I 100% repressed everything in this book when I first read it as a kid. Way darker than I remember. Still very enjoyable. The content POV switches with no warning are very jarring. 

Overall a good start. Can’t wait to see what happens next. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Violence, Xenophobia, and Sexual harassment

0pen_b00ks's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Death, Eating disorder, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism and Animal death

kindajason's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

ok honestly this was so much better than i expected it to be. I remember not liking this series nearly as much as i liked the Maximum Ride books, but now I see tv at they aren't even really comparable. These books are much more like the Hunger Games or Divergent than Maximum Ride. The cast is incredibly diverse and there's actually some decent and (seemingly) well researched portrayal of various mental illnesses and disorders. I wasn't sure if i'd want to read the rest of these books, but after this one i'm definitely interested z

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

Moderate: Eating disorder, Gun violence, and Mental illness

Minor: Racial slurs and Racism

thesawyerbean's review against another edition

challenging dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

A very interesting and terrifying YA dystopia - I am very excited to read the next instalment.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal death, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Medical content, Kidnapping, Car accident, Death of parent, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail