Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga

3 reviews

felixhenry's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Alcohol

ecravens's review

dark emotional hopeful sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Mental illness, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Death, Grief, Alcohol, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Panic attacks/disorders

janalg's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.5

I don't know what possessed me to pick up this book in the first place..

This has very simple but pleasant writing and so many important things to tell but fumbles it so, oh so hard.
If I was still a suicidal teenager I would read this a couple more times in hopes of cringing myself to death.
Then again, my teenage self would probably have fallen for this mess of a story.

Props for processing your trauma in this (arguably) healthy way, but the "you just need the right person" bullshit is fucking infuriating to me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Mental illness, Suicide, Death, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Self harm, Bullying, and Alcohol