Four Weeks, Five People

Posted on 15 January 2018 by Jennifer Yu

They re than their problemsObsessive compulsive teen Clarissa wants to get better, if only so her mother will stop asking her if she s okay.Andrew wants to overcome his eating disorder so he can get back to his band and their dreams of becoming famous.Film aficionado Ben would rather live in the movies than in reality.Gorgeous and overly confident Mason thinks everyone is an idiot.And Stella just doesn t want to be back for her second summer of wilderness therapy.As the five teens get to know one another and work to overcome the various disorders that have affected their lives, they find themselves forming bonds they never thought they would, discovering new truths about themselves and actually looking forward to the future. Read Four Weeks, Five People Author Jennifer Yu – kino-fada.fr Y ALL THIS BOOK IS SO GOOD I WANT TO SHOUT IT FROM THE ROOFTOPS I absolutely adored Four Weeks, Five People It is an emotional and very realistic read featuring the largest number of mental illnesses addressed in a novel that I ve ever seen I am totally adding it to the top of my mental health fiction recommendations.TW depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, anorexia, suicide, narcissistic personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, dissociative episodesThis is definitely a ve Y ALL THIS BOOK IS SO GOOD I WANT TO SHOUT IT FROM THE ROOFTOPS I absolutely adored Four Weeks, Five People It is an emotional and very realistic read featuring the largest number of mental illnesses addressed in a novel that I ve ever seen I am totally adding it to the top of my mental health fiction recommendations.TW depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, anorexia, suicide, narcissistic personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, dissociative episodesThis is definitely a very character driven novel Despite a large twist at the end, there are few game changing plot points so if you desire a fast paced, eventful contemporary, this may not be the book ... Apologies in advance for the nonsensical, badly written review It s 1am and I can t really express my love for this book AND write about it in well written sentences.Put simply, Four Weeks, Five People follows five teenagers attending a summer wilderness therapy camp Stella has severe depression, Andrew has anorexia, Clarissa has OCD and anxiety, Mason has Narcisstic Personality Disorder, and Ben has Depersonalisation disorder and I think he also has Bipolar disorder, although I can t be sure Apologies in advance for the nonsensical, badly written review It s 1am and I can t really express my love for this book AND write about it in well written sentences.Put simply, Four Weeks, Five People follows five teenagers attending a summer wilderness therapy camp Stella has severe depression, Andrew has anorexia, Clarissa has OCD and anxiety, Mason has Narcisstic Personality Disorder, and Ben has Depersonalisation disorder and I think he also has Bipolar disorder, although I can t be sure Having only suffered Depression myself and having not dealt with any of the other disorders represented in the book, I can t speak for the representation, however I felt all of it was handled sensitively, realistically and mental illness in this book was NOT romanticised yay Four Weeks, Five People was SO EASY to read While I technically started this book at the end of April, I really didn t have time to read at the time, so when I picked it up again, I...One of my favorite themes in YA is the process of recovery Count me in for characters with mental illnesses various disorders I m all for MCs I can relate to root for to heal So naturally I was excited to read this, but unfortunately it fell short for me The premise of FOUR WEEKS, FIVE PEOPLE had a couple of things going for it right off the bat 1 a male MC with anorexia there needs to bebooks that have males with eating disorders there needs to be titles that shows th One of my favorite themes in YA is the process of recovery Count me in for characters with mental illnesses v...I can feel the words getting louder and louder with every bounce back until they are vibrating through my head until they are vibrating through my body until they are everything until they are inside me until I am light until I am stars until I am a supernova until I am nothing but words ringing in an infinity of spaceThis was labeled as one of the summers top reads and I m trying to figure out why The synopsis is a y.a s wet dream and it was extremely hard to make a connection The storI can feel the words getting louder and louder with every bounce back until they are vibrating through my head until they are vibrating through my body until they are everything until they are inside me until I am light until I am stars until I am a supernova until I am nothing but words ringing in an infinity of spaceThis was labeled as one of the summers top reads and I m trying to figure out why The synopsis is a y.a s wet dream and it was extreme...I was sucked into this book from the very first page With well positioned and well written characters with lives described that made you believe that they were real kids with real mental health issues, who wouldn t be sucked in But it was the writing in the book that initially sucked me in and was the only thing that made me keep going back to the book The first one hundred pages of this book are great, but then from the moment the five teena...In general, I really liked this book Although some reviewers found the lack of recovery to be problematic, I thought it was pretty realistic given the fact that these teens were only in this camp for four weeks You have to consider the fact that these teens s MIs developed over the course ofthan a decade Like all mental health treatment, arealistic time frame for recovery would be at least several months if not years I think it was a pretty realistic portrayal of all the thin In general, I really liked this book Although some reviewers found the lack of recovery to be problematic, I thought it was pretty realistic given the fact that these teens were only in this camp for four weeks You have to consider the fact that these teens s MIs developed over the course ofthan a decade Like all mental health treatment, arealistic time frame for recovery would be at least several months if not years I think it was a pretty realistic portrayal of all the things that might go down in a camp like this Sure...In a nutshell, this book follows five teenagers during a summer wilderness therapy camp I have to say, this is without a doubt the most mental illness rep I ve ever seen in a book we have characters with severe depression, anorexia, OCD, anxiety, Narcisstic Personality Disorder and Depersonalisation Disorder I especially appreciated the fact that we have a boy dealing with anorexia, so...This book is so important and everything I hoped it to be I was hooked from the moment I first read the synopsis many months ago It was one of my favorite and highly anticipated reads of 2017 I am a huge advocate for mental health and spreading awareness about the reality of the various afflictions I loved this book because of the reality and diversity shown through the different voices and the different fonts used to distinguish and represent the characters which is one of the best ideas f This book is so important and everything I hoped it to be I was hooked from the moment I first read the synopsis many months ago It was one of my favorite and highly anticipated reads of 2017 I am a huge advocate for mental health and spreading awareness about the reality of the various afflictions I loved this book because of the reality and diversity shown through the different voices and the different fonts used to distinguish and represent the ...The book s summary sounded like a book right up my alley 5 teenagers dealing with their problems at wilderness camp But the narrative dragged and the most interesting character, Mason, was hardly given any attention so I consider it a failure.Reviews posted on Reading is My Kind of Thing3 1 2 stars Four Weeks, Five People follows five teens Stella, Clarissa, Andrew, Ben and Mason who are sent to Camp Ugunduzi, a therapeutic wilderness program that helps adolescents with mental illnesses For the most part, I enjoyed the characters and was entertained by them Each character had a very strong personality and voice to accompany this You would only ever forget whose perspective you re in if you return to this book mid chapter A Reviews posted on Reading is My Kind of Thing3 1 2 stars Four Weeks, Five People follows five teens Stella, Clarissa, Andrew, Ben and Mason who are sent to Camp Ugunduzi, a therapeutic wilderness program that helps adolescents with mental illnesses For the most part, I enjoyed the characters and was entertained by them Each character had a very strong personality and voice to accompany this You would only ever forget whose perspective you re in if you return to this book mid chapter Although, I did finding myself skimming the text at times because I felt it was a little melodramatic here and there The camaraderie between the characters was equally, if notentertaining Each character had a very unique voice and gelled well together I think this is really important, with so many points of views there ...

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15 January 2018

Jennifer Yu