Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Love & Olives by Jenna Evans Welch

32 reviews

princessdana36's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing 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? Yes

4.0

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m_newton's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional 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? It's complicated

3.5

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sammerp219's review against another edition

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adventurous hopeful reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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animal_1over's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional hopeful lighthearted 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? Yes

5.0

This is definitely my favorite book out of the Love & Gelato series by far. I do wish that there was more depth in Olive and Theo’s relationship. One thing I did not expect was how sad last 50 - 100 pages are (it almost had me crying). 
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lavenderbluestories's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny lighthearted 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? Yes

4.5

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ittywitty's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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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blessednacho's review against another edition

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hopeful inspiring lighthearted relaxing medium-paced
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

I loved this book! It was super interesting and the characters were great. However, there were a couple things I did not like. For example, the main character has a crush on another character while still having a boyfriend and worrying that he is cheating on her. I also never truly understood the power of show-not-tell until this book.
In this book, one of the characters just says that they were struggling with the stigmatization of mental illness, and it felt corny and cheap.
Overall, I thought this was a great book. I would recommend it to anyone who wants a summer read set in Greece with a little bit of depth to it.
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blanz's review against another edition

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

1.0

I don't like leaving bad reviews for books online because I always imagine that the author could read it, but it took me 3 years to finish this book. I really wanted to like it, because I liked love & luck, but this one just didn't do it for me. I found the narrator of the audiobook very annoying. 
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redpollrory's review against another edition

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emotional relaxing medium-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

3.0

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infusionofviolets's review

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adventurous emotional inspiring 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? Yes

5.0

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