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The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

225 reviews

oceanbluetay's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Grief, and Alcohol

Moderate: Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Deadnaming, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Racism, Car accident, Abortion, and Pregnancy

jstarshine16's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Grief, and Alcohol

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Homophobia, Infidelity, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Medical trauma, Abortion, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Self harm, Sexual violence, Car accident, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

caitlaird's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful 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

A beautiful but emotional read. Deals with heavy topics, but hearing Charlie’s thoughts and experience coming to understand some difficult things about himself and his past is so well done. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, and Alcohol

Moderate: Child abuse, Drug use, Incest, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Death, Car accident, Abortion, and Outing

meaghanelizabook'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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Mental illness, Sexual assault, and Alcohol

Moderate: Homophobia, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Pedophilia, Rape, Car accident, and Abortion

zsometimesreads's review against another edition

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Domestic abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Suicide

Minor: Child abuse, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Car accident, and Abortion

eternalwallflower's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Bullying, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, and Alcohol

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Abortion, Outing, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Child abuse, Incest, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Car accident

literalmetaphor's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective sad tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Alcohol

Moderate: Bullying, Homophobia, Suicide, and Car accident

Minor: Domestic abuse and Emotional abuse

booksoversecondbreakfast's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense 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

4.75

I almost DNFed this book. It's a book for high schoolers about high schoolers, and since I'm nearing my thirties, it didn't seem like this book was for me. The writing felt too simplistic and not deep enough. It felt too childish. But I gave it a bit more of a chance when I realized more about what he was going through. I learned of the experiences and pain that contributed to Charlie's simplistic view of his day-to-day teenage life. And then book began to make so much more sense, and I began to see its beauty. I saw my own story and pains reflected in Charlie's and could see the experiences I shared decades ago as a teen reflected in Charlie's. This book captures the effects of Charlie's source of pain so well - better than I've ever experienced in a book, and I was feel so grateful to get to read such a beautiful story capturing and empathizing with that pain. I read this book in the form of an audiobook, and this will definitely be a book I'll be purchasing a physical copy of to read over and over in the future.

And to any young person reading this, who relates to the pain experienced in this story, I just wanted to pile on and remind you that there really is light at the end of the tunnel. What used to haunt you will lose its ability to hold you down. And you will be okay.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Bullying, Homophobia, Incest, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Abortion, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Minor: Eating disorder, Fatphobia, and Forced institutionalization

sarahmmichael's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative lighthearted reflective sad tense slow-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Car accident, Abortion, and Alcohol

sandysmith's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny inspiring 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

4.0

Another young adult book I really enjoyed set in a high school. The story is of Charlie, whose best friend Michael dies, leaving him without friends as others close to him no longer want to know Charlie. He makes friends with Sam and Partick, also known as nothing due to his phrase call me Patrick or nothing. Patrick is gay and in a relationship with Brad, who is desperate to keep their relationship a secret. The book is entirely made of beautifully written letters from Charlie to a friend who remains anonymous. We can speculate who this is, but it is not revealed. Read as part of my banned books book club pick banned due to alcohol, drug and sex content, but you know what that's teenagers for you and they will be involved in this regardless of whether a book is banned so it's a big pah to the book banners. Full of teenage angst and deep themes, I really liked it. My favourite quote " you get the love you think you deserve" emotive fab stuff.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug use, Homophobia, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Car accident, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, and Alcohol