Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

The Art of Starving by Sam J. Miller

8 reviews

idonoteatchairs's review against another edition

emotional funny 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: Eating disorder, Mental illness, and Homophobia

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Islamophobia and Antisemitism

nincoompoop's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Classism, Body shaming, Animal cruelty, Eating disorder, Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, Fatphobia, and Bullying

ellnorrr's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense 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

3.0

I have serious mixed feelings on this book. On one hand, I felt like the internal depiction of an eating disorder was very accurate, especially with the obsession with rules. On the other hand, Im so sick of ED books where the eating disorder becomes supernatural, even if starvation induced psychosis is somewhat common. This book also got me wondering, is accuracy always a good thing? Yes, a key part of many peoples anorexia is to create and follow a strict set of rules, but sharing the protags rules seemed somewhat unnecessary and could be harmful as someone very well might try to follow them.
Anyway, I was going to give this a 4/5 but the ending really sucked. so 3/5 it is

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Homophobia, Eating disorder, Addiction, Body shaming, Dysphoria, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Animal death, Drug use, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cursing, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Gore, Medical content, Violence, and Stalking

pusianadusia's review against another edition

challenging emotional 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

My fav book lol

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Vomit, Homophobia, and Mental illness

coyodie's review against another edition

dark emotional funny 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Drug abuse, Bullying, Body shaming, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Homophobia, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Animal death, Classism, and Islamophobia

Minor: Abandonment

carliegale806's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Bullying, and Mental illness

Moderate: Bullying and Eating disorder

morgay69's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.75

i thought the book was pretty good. definitely not what i expected. i liked how it it represented the lgbtq but also boys with eating disorders. overall pretty good book but a pretty dark topic for teenagers.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Eating disorder, and Homophobia

Moderate: Animal death, Alcoholism, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Bullying, Panic attacks/disorders, and Vomit

drizzlybear's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

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

3.5

slow start but excellent finish; had me worried for a bit there that there was going to be some weird subtextual message about self-harm giving you super powers but that was resolved nicely. address some very important topics obviously personal to the author.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Eating disorder, Vomit, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Self harm, and Mental illness