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ging090803's review against another edition
- 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
4.25
I loved how she could experience so many lives and see all the possibilities. It was a great reminder for the reader and it was not only big choices, it was all the choices she could have made in her life. She saw how it could change, or not, her life as she know it. The Book of Regret was a great representation of us, all humans.
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Toxic friendship
Moderate: Animal death, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Infidelity
angelbabe_cj's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol
Minor: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Drug use, Infidelity, Vomit, and Car accident
captainoliimar's review against another edition
- 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
5.0
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Vomit, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Cancer, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Dementia, Car accident, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cursing, Gun violence, Homophobia, Rape, Sexual content, Police brutality, Medical content, Dementia, Stalking, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual harassment
hanniee's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Alcohol
vickybuka's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Death, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, and Alcohol
Minor: Toxic friendship
bookish_ness's review against another edition
- 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
5.0
My review on B&N:
I've always heard the expression, "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude about it." As someone who also deals with depression, it seems impossible. Just hearing those words, it still can feel hopeless. This book gave me a new perspective. I felt I really connected with the main character and her struggles, it was as if I could feel what she was going through. Very well written, I will read this again whenever I am going through a difficult time.
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide
Moderate: Alcoholism and Alcohol
Minor: Toxic relationship and Toxic friendship
marcostorin's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Animal death, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Alcohol
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, and Toxic friendship
labello's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
And for me personally, it did not stick the landing.
To me, it was, frankly, depressing. It just seemed to say that no matter what the main character did it, it would have always led to her being depressed. There was no chance for a life in which she did not end up having depression.
She didn't feel she fit in the life that supposedly was the happiest of them the doctor and the child and neither did she feel she fit in any other life, not even her own real one. As though there truly was no place for her without the pain of depression.
What immediately unsettled me as the mechanic of jumping between lives was introduced was, that there were only two possible ends:
1. she would stay in another life. Which would have given me the message of: "Your life is shit and the life you wanted for yourself is now unobtainable to you thanks to your mistakes in the past. And the best you Can do is obtain a watered-down version" or
2. she would go back to her original life, which she did, and the message would be "You're so inherently damaged that even in better lives and better situations you will always stick out like a sore thumb."
I am aware that I am interpreting it in the least charitable way, however, as someone who has depression and felt like the main character does at the beginning of the book, this is how it reads to me. so I personally wouldn't recommend it
Graphic: Mental illness and Suicidal thoughts
Moderate: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Self harm, Suicide attempt, and Toxic friendship
Minor: Cursing, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Death of parent