Mental health facilities can be toxic places, yes, but they can also be great rehabilitation centers. Again, this is a toxic message to teens who want to help their own issues. Every adult in this facility was either a villain or incompetent. ✔ I don't think Hopkins did her research on mental health facilities. 🌺 MENTAL HEALTH IS SUPER, SUPER ROMANTIC Again, he's not fleshed-out quite enough, but he's a good guy. ✔ Connor is a complete fuckboy and again, I could've excused it, but he's not fleshed-out. I could've excused her bad behavior if she were redeemed, but she's not developed or fleshed-out, and she never really improves. ✔ Vanessa has bipolar and kind of a judgemental asshole. Hopkins that trauma is not a character trait. All these characters could've been redeemable, but they're really not fleshed out? I'm not sure anyone ever told Ms. In terms of character, I had some major issues as well. She took on too many issues with only three characters, and it quickly approached a point where she didn't even bother exploring these important issues in an inoffensive way. Each one of the characters goes through so many terrible events that Hopkins cannot possibly resolve them all. Because that's who I am! Basically, it's super fucking obvious that this book wasn't outlined well or like, at all.
Okay, this is the section where I'm a bitter salty person and I feel the need to explain why this book is just kind of generally bad ignoring all the stuff that is Problematique. But please do let me despise this book in peace. Like, feel free to love this book – books are always subjective. If I had less self-confidence, I genuinely cannot imagine how I would've taken this and where this book could've taken me. This isn't some kind of minor "negative tropes" thing. ✔ Before you call me an SJW keyboard warrior so you can feel morally vindicated in your opinion: Please at least read the damn review? I'm not complaining about this just for the sake of complaining or whatever you'd like to believe. I am not joking or exaggerating when I say this storyline genuinely reads like someone's conversion therapy manifesto. And besides that, it contains the most homophobic storyline I have ever had the displeasure of reading. Unfortunately, Impulse is a pretty terrible book, with severe issues of mental health being tackled sort of horribly and a shitty love triangle no one cares about. I started Impulse with really high hopes for this after enjoying Hopkins' Tricks series.
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