Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson

10 reviews

unhingedreader's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Alcohol, Fatphobia, and Alcoholism

chloelyee's review

challenging emotional informative 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Medical content, Addiction, Death, Suicide, Fatphobia, Vomit, Grief, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, Blood, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, and Self harm

buro's review

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Vomit, Addiction, and Eating disorder

alexanderh's review

While this book was significant to me as a freshman in high school, it is no longer helpful. I find it a little horrifying that Anderson provides in-depth thoughts on how to self-harm and "successfully" be anorexic. While it really highlights how unhealthy this mindset is, it also provides tips/tricks for those currently struggling with these issues. I personally have a policy against showing the action/methods but I still make sure to highlight the aftermath and overall unhealthy mindset.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Alcohol, Eating disorder, Death, Addiction, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Mental illness

fromundertheashtree's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-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: Alcohol, Addiction, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Drug abuse, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, and Mental illness

tsuki_bxbe's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

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

5.0

Shows the intense mental turmoil and problems of people with eating disorders. This book was both triggering and made me feel less alone and seen

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Medical trauma, Vomit, Addiction, Bullying, Body shaming, Death, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Fatphobia, Self harm, Suicide, Toxic friendship, and Suicide attempt

honey_pie's review

challenging dark emotional reflective 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

3.75

this book is a hard read at times & also some of the writing is a little cringe. but some of it is absolutely beautiful & I'm glad it ended happily. recovery is a hard thing to do & I think this book has a fairly accurate representation of that (as far as I know)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Alcohol, Eating disorder, Self harm, Vomit, Toxic friendship, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Car accident, Body shaming, and Blood

sobbing_baby's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.75

It mentions self-harm multiple times, but there is no warning in the front or back, so here’s a heads up!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Addiction, Medical trauma, Suicide, Self harm, and Mental illness

meghansarmiento97's review

dark reflective sad tense medium-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Addiction, Grief, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Car accident

jdhaliwal's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt