Reviews tagging 'Dysphoria'

Birthday by Meredith Russo

20 reviews

chris_reads's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Dysphoria, Grief, Homophobia, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Mental illness, Alcohol, and Homophobia

Minor: Domestic abuse, Cancer, and Death of parent

ttthetincan's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death of parent, Dysphoria, Homophobia, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Addiction, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Cursing

alfiyah's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad medium-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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming

Moderate: Alcohol, Death of parent, Drug use, Dysphoria, Homophobia, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Transphobia

itshardizzy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Grief, Homophobia, Dysphoria, Misogyny, Transphobia, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Death of parent and Vomit

Minor: Cancer

maikendignes's review against another edition

emotional hopeful fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

I know some people are criticizing this book for having such a “dream like” ending and for having Eric respond in the positive way he did, but personally that’s just what I need to read sometimes. And people seem to forget that the first four years of the book wasn’t very dream like at all for Morgan.

over all a new favorite of mine!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Transphobia, Dysphoria, Homophobia, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Drug abuse and Alcohol

melbrooker's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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

4.0

Russo commands her readers to listen, and demands them to feel. This book, like IIWYG, wrecked me. It's an absolutely heartwrenching story, and Russo tells it with a real and raw narrative.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Dysphoria, Homophobia, Suicide attempt, and Suicide

reading_rainbows's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Bullying, Dysphoria, Suicidal thoughts, Alcoholism, Violence, Transphobia, Homophobia, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Self harm, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Sexual content

alyssajreads's review against another edition

emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Child abuse, Dysphoria, Self harm, Suicide attempt, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Transphobia

zorii's review against another edition

emotional funny informative 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

4.5

Beautiful book. Amazing. Made me cry twice. A great love story about two friends growing up and falling in love.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Homophobia, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Death of parent, Grief, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

Minor: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Child abuse, and Domestic abuse

merlesstorys's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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

5.0

I was sobbing throughout this whole book.
It delivered the emotions so perfectly to my heart that I just couldn’t stop. 

Russo‘s writing style is amazing. She brought so much life into these characters, even though you only read parts of their years instead of a continuing observation. This way, the book was quite short, but it was perfect.

Eric and Morgan are also just such a dream-team of a friends-to-lovers plot. They support each other, no matter how hard, and really are there for each other (in the end). 

To be honest, I wasn’t able to read every page - I skipped through them so that I wouldn’t reach a complete mental breakdown. 
But nevertheless, I recommend it more than anything to everybody (especially those, who need some sad-happy character development)!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Suicide attempt, Homophobia, and Transphobia

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Grief, Drug use, Death of parent, and Deadnaming

Minor: Outing, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, and Blood