Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

I Am Not Okay With This by Charles Forsman

3 reviews

koplomps's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Sexism, Drug use, Sexual assault, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Suicide, and Sexual content

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Pregnancy

Minor: Cursing

eurydice_books_09's review

dark sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

tbh I don’t know how I feel about this book LOL. Not what I expected at all, i loved the show when it came out so much so checked this out and it was so much crazier than I could imagine. Still pretty cool but so sad.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Lesbophobia, Medical content, Vomit, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Gore, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Violence

taaya's review

challenging dark sad slow-paced

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

2.0

WTF? 

This feels like depression and trauma being written by somebody who has never experienced it themselves. Like somebody who has a mentally ill person around them trying to portray said illness without ever actually asking the person what that feels like. Like ...here it looks like the illness doesn't make any sense at all, like there's no logic, like there's no in-depth psychological character study the mentally ill person creates of themselves.

And the added weird superpower? Why doesn't Syd talk to anyone about it? Get help? Why is she constantly insulting people she claims she likes (and no, calling somebody bitch is NOT okay and it is dehumanising). 

And ... I just don't get it. There's either so much going on between the lines without being verbalised, so not accessible for people with my kind of neurodivergency, or the dealing with the topic is very, very flat.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Murder

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Biphobia, Bullying, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Rape, Addiction, Misogyny, Toxic friendship, Body shaming, Self harm, Sexual assault, and Mental illness

Minor: War