Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson

15 reviews

rosie_valadez's review against another edition

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Self harm, Mental illness, and Death

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Vomit, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Alcohol, Car accident, and Grief

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

dangerina's review

dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Eating disorder, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Alcohol

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

itsjadenbaby's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.0

A decent read for anyone who wants to learn about the internal dialogue of someone with an eating disorder. Overall, the book is captivating enough that you want to continue, but for me, it was not profound.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Fatphobia, Grief, Mental illness, Self harm, Body shaming, Death, Eating disorder, Dysphoria, Suicide attempt, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Bullying, and Alcohol

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

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

erinwolf1997's review

challenging dark emotional sad fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Self harm, Body horror, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide attempt, Blood, Eating disorder, Death, Medical content, and Bullying

Moderate: Alcohol, Car accident, Drug abuse, and Forced institutionalization

solybugs'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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This book is one of the darker books I've read as of late but I don't regret it. I chose this as part of my Gifted and Talented class's Diverse POV unit, and I chose well. This book has beautiful writing that can take your breath away while portraying and handling mental illness-related topics maturely. Not only did I relate to the main character in certain parts but I also related to the people that are viewed as "villains" who were really just trying to help. It was hard to see who was in the right at times. Also the sisterly relationship Lia and Emma had... 10/10, adorbs. Easy 4.5/5 stars, -0.5 because of how many times it made me squirm during the uncomfy parts (as it should that's the whole point but I personally don't like that kind of dark).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Self harm, Death, and Mental illness

Moderate: Cursing and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Alcohol and Drug use

The eating disorders mentioned are anorexia and bulimia. Hallucinations are also experienced in first person pov throughout the book and are sometimes used to drive the plot forward. The self-harm depicted and experienced is cutting.