Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

As Far as You'll Take Me by Phil Stamper

21 reviews

virgilvenus's review against another edition

emotional hopeful

• 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

Moderate: Mental illness, Outing, Toxic friendship, Homophobia, Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, and Religious bigotry

drewett's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective fast-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Dysphoria, Outing, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Homophobia, Drug use, Deportation, Eating disorder, and Alcohol

yoursupremereads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective 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

This is a lighthearted exploration of what a lot of queer kids have and will go through in the future. Leaving your old life behind to find where you truly belong. To discover yourself, to understand true acceptance amongst a community, and exploring bit by bit who you want to become by the ending chapter in your life's story. Stamper has written something that looks to encourage and affirm young queer people that you weren't able to control the family and life you were born into, but you can definitely choose the life you want to live and the family you want to love. Another great addition to the YA queer modern canon.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Bullying, Eating disorder, Outing, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, and Toxic friendship

xeniba's review

emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

This was cute. I often find myself wanting to focus more on the supporting characters, and this book wasn’t any different. I wanted to read about Sophie or Dani or Ajay or Sang more than Marty, but that’s just me. Overall, it was cute and a quick read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Eating disorder

haindfielda's review against another edition

emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

3.5

Overall pretty good and easy read. I really liked the story but I didn’t stick with me like some other books did. Really good story for LGBTQ+ representation and experiences 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic friendship, Eating disorder, Body shaming, Homophobia, and Outing

Minor: Biphobia, Sexual content, Cursing, Death of parent, Fatphobia, and Gaslighting

matheo's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring

• 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Outing, Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Fatphobia, Emotional abuse, Body shaming, and Bullying

annzoe's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Mental illness, and Homophobia

indydanniejones's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful inspiring sad 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

4.0

A lovely coming of age book that deals with a lot of very heavy topics. Narraror character struggles with high anxiety and finding his place in the world.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Mental illness

larabezzina's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring medium-paced

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

3.5

This book was enjoyable and a quick read that helped break me out of a reading slump (I finished it in one sitting) however while the story was enjoyable there were aspects of the writing and some coverage of sensitive topics that felt superficial. For example it felt as though the author just googled touristy spots in London and then wrote from that. Furthermore, while some topics like navigating toxic relationships were covered in great depth there were several incidents in the book that seemingly came out of no where such as

eating disorders and an instance where the MC is nearly sexually assaulted

and were then resolved as though they were trivial which felt insincere, unrealistic and tested my suspension of belief (including the fact that the MC has

severe anxiety

but still manages to drop everything and move overseas without a solid plan). Still, the book does a fantastic job of representing lgbt young people, is a wonderful story about found family and was rich in musical knowledge that felt very authentic. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Mental illness, Outing, Panic attacks/disorders, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

emma_carey2001's review against another edition

challenging emotional medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Mental illness

Moderate: Homophobia