A review by urmom456
Impulse by Ellen Hopkins

dark slow-paced

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

0.0

The characters in this book are the products of their mental illnesses and trauma. They have no personalities, their personalities are their disorder/truama.

The one gay character is “fixed” by “turning straight” which I find disgusting. And as my review on Goodreads says, this is basically ‘If You Give a Mouse a Cookie’ but instead it’s ‘If You Put a Suicidal Teenager on Top of a Cliff’.

Absolutely hated it, there was hardly any actual plot. No wonder it took me 4 years to even finish it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual violence, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Abandonment

Minor: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Incest, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail