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Solitaire Kindle Edition
Alice Oseman
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LanguageEnglish
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PublisherHarperCollinsChildren’sBooks
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Publication date31 July 2014
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File size1503 KB
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“The Catcher in the Rye for the digital age” The Times
“The most honest and authentic account of modern teenage life that you’ll read this year… outstanding contemporary fiction with appeal to fans of John Green.” The Bookseller
‘A very authentic, teenage voice’ – Sunday Times
“Full of wit, cynicism, sarcasm and humour. This book is relatable yet original at the same time.” Goodreads review
--This text refers to the paperback edition.About the Author
From the Inside Flap
My name is Victoria Spring.
Sometimes I hate people.
This is probably very bad for my mental health.
Tori has friends. She has brothers. She has parents. Sometimes she can be bothered to talk to them. Most of the time, though, she would prefer not to have to deal with other people.
Until the day she follows a trail of Post-its from her locker to a deserted computer lab, where she finds a message from a mysterious group called Solitaire. It's also where she meets Michael Holden. Irrepressibly cheerful, weird, and determined to be her friend, Michael is everything Tori normally hates.
And that's it. That's where it starts.
Soon Solitaire has launched a series of pranks across the school. For once, Tori feels connected, like someone is on her wavelength--making jokes about her favorite movies, blasting her favorite song on repeat over the intercom. Then Solitaire's pranks start to go too far, and no one else seems to be concerned. Tori doesn't like getting involved. But this time, the idea of doing nothing is even worse.
Solitaire is a novel about finding friends, finding yourself, and discovering that one person can change everything.
--The Times (London) --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.From the Back Cover
My name is Victoria Spring.
Sometimes I hate people.
This is probably very bad for my mental health.
Tori has friends. She has brothers. She has parents. Sometimes she can be bothered to talk to them. Most of the time, though, she would prefer not to have to deal with other people.
Until the day she follows a trail of Post-its from her locker to a deserted computer lab, where she finds a message from a mysterious group called Solitaire. It's also where she meets Michael Holden. Irrepressibly cheerful, weird, and determined to be her friend, Michael is everything Tori normally hates.
And that's it. That's where it starts.
Soon Solitaire has launched a series of pranks across the school. For once, Tori feels connected, like someone is on her wavelength—making jokes about her favorite movies, blasting her favorite song on repeat over the intercom. Then Solitaire's pranks start to go too far, and no one else seems to be concerned. Tori doesn't like getting involved. But this time, the idea of doing nothing is even worse.
Solitaire is a novel about finding friends, finding yourself, and discovering that one person can change everything.
--This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.Product details
- ASIN : B00I7K4CLS
- Publisher : HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks; edition (31 July 2014)
- Language : English
- File size : 1503 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 373 pages
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- #4,737 in Children's Literature & Fiction (Kindle Store)
- #14,243 in Children's Literature & Fiction (Books)
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Alice oseman is a genius and the universe she’s created is absolute magic. This book was published much before “Heartstopper”but this story takes place after Charlie & Nick are a couple, in that universe.
This story is not about Nick and Charlie, it’s about Victoria, Charlie’s elder sister.
“This is not a love story” as mentioned on the cover, this is not a lighthearted cliché YA story as one might expect, and is quite dense and intense.
Victoria, Tori, is a 17 year old compulsive pessimist, she has few friends, hates making new friends and is super involved with her blog. One day Tori bumps into a senior, the very peculiar Michael Holden and on the very same day she uncovers solitaire.co.uk, a havoc wrecking website that sets in motion a series of pranks in the school and the town.
The story follows Tori as she navigates school life, domestic issues, looks out for her younger brothers while fighting her own mental and emotional demons.
This book explores the complex minds of teenagers, the mental issues/illnesses/disorders/coping mechanisms that they might be silently or not so silently be dealing with. This book explores how Its not easy being a teenager, and figuring out life and it’s intricacies.
The first part of the book is super fun, light and fast with underlying currents of mental health. The second part gets a tad bit intense and delves into mental illness, it’s implications and the tempo slows down considerably. The story line is predicatable and the plot isn’t spectacular. However, It is inspiring is because Alice managed to write this book when she was merely 17. When you see it from that view point you can’t help but marvel at the complexity of the story and the intricacy of its characters.

By Thegoangirlreads on 17 January 2021
Alice oseman is a genius and the universe she’s created is absolute magic. This book was published much before “Heartstopper”but this story takes place after Charlie & Nick are a couple, in that universe.
This story is not about Nick and Charlie, it’s about Victoria, Charlie’s elder sister.
“This is not a love story” as mentioned on the cover, this is not a lighthearted cliché YA story as one might expect, and is quite dense and intense.
Victoria, Tori, is a 17 year old compulsive pessimist, she has few friends, hates making new friends and is super involved with her blog. One day Tori bumps into a senior, the very peculiar Michael Holden and on the very same day she uncovers solitaire.co.uk, a havoc wrecking website that sets in motion a series of pranks in the school and the town.
The story follows Tori as she navigates school life, domestic issues, looks out for her younger brothers while fighting her own mental and emotional demons.
This book explores the complex minds of teenagers, the mental issues/illnesses/disorders/coping mechanisms that they might be silently or not so silently be dealing with. This book explores how Its not easy being a teenager, and figuring out life and it’s intricacies.
The first part of the book is super fun, light and fast with underlying currents of mental health. The second part gets a tad bit intense and delves into mental illness, it’s implications and the tempo slows down considerably. The story line is predicatable and the plot isn’t spectacular. However, It is inspiring is because Alice managed to write this book when she was merely 17. When you see it from that view point you can’t help but marvel at the complexity of the story and the intricacy of its characters.

Characters - 5
Plot - 5
Cover - 4.5
Writing was raw and deep, truly a piece of art. This is one of the best book I ever read.
I genuinely liked the writing style.
I enjoyed it .
~Well all i’ve got to say about this book is.......it did betray me.
~the first part of the book was soo good, i stayed up all night reading it & i was totally into this book.
~like literally it did have potential to become one of my favorites but the ending was kinda unsatisfying to me & there was a lot of chaos in part two.
~the best part of this book was Michael Holden......i absolutely adored his character, he’s like my favorite fictional character of the year. he’s so mysterious & different, one of a kind !!!!
~alice oseman writing is wonderful as always & all her books are so relatable to me including this book !!!!
~here’s the thing the book dealt with complex themes like anxiety, depression, eating disorders, self harm, high school issues.
~I love the book totally but as i said part two did really messed it all.
~so there’s Tori spring our main character & she’s so confused when this weird boy, michael holden, enters into her life (again this is not a love story but kinda.....cute). and there’s solitaire ( a mysterious group run by some unknown students or maybe one ) who started to create annoyance & irritation by their pranks at school everyday.........and it’s bothering everyone !!!! including tori.
~As i said michael did save this book totally for me......i loved him so much & he’s so relatable, i don’t think so i’ll ever stop talking about him.
~it was really a good read though, just pick this book atleast for michael holden(5/5 ⭐️ to him ) lol.
Its about a girl named Victoria Springs who prefers to be called Tori . She's in her Year 12 and she is close to her brother , Charlie and his boyfriend , Nick . One dy out of no where a guy named Micheal Holden comes in her life and so does a primary school bestie , Lucas . And so the books goes on with their friendship and later grow relationship (was that not obvious) .
I give this book 4 stars only because of the somewhat predictable plot , but i also have to give the author credit for being original at the same time .
Top reviews from other countries

“I hate the phone. It’s the worst invention in the history of the world because, if you don’t talk, nothing happens. You can’t get by with simply listening and nodding your head in all the right places. You have to talk. You have no option.”
Tori is a very relatable character, not just for me, but for anyone who is or has been a teenager. Especially if you have ever felt like an outsider. She is a blogger and introvert which is something a lot of readers can relate too. However if this isn’t you, there is Michael who (outwardly, and at first) seems so cheery and positive. He was a wonderful character and friend. I really liked his personality. He grows throughout the book and we learn so much more about him and how he keeps a lot inside, which is a lot of peoples coping mechanism. Also, he could well have been bi or ace or any sexuality at all but he refuses to label his sexuality as he doesn’t see why he has to and that’s a really interesting choice.
There is wonderful rep in this book, not many labels are used so I can’t specify with confidence, however I’m pretty sure I spotted depression, anxiety and definitely homosexuality. Specifically, Tori’s brother has really struggled with his mental health and we watch as Tori herself slowly realises she might be struggling too. We see how her mental health effects her relationships with everyone and how they cannot possibly know what is going on inside her head. She tells everyone she’s fine because that is what is expected from her. Tori’s relationship with her parents played a minimal role in the book and I would have found it interesting to explore that more and see how it affected Tori’s mental health.
Whilst I generally enjoy plot driven books and find less enjoyment in the character development, with Solitaire, I was all in for the characters and only mildly interested in the actual plot. I wanted to know who was behind Solitaire, however, I felt the “pranks” they were pulling off were unrealistic which took me out of it slightly. They were dramatic and added an element of mystery to the book, but I feel like the real meat of the story had nothing to do with Solitaire.
Overall, I think this was a wonderful read with something for everyone that tackled a bunch of really tough topics really well.

I loved Tori's relationship with Charlie. They love each other so much but they're both really struggling. You can't always help someone else when you don't know how to deal with yourself, and that's a difficult thing to learn. Tori sees some signs Charlie isn't ok (and he sees them in her) but doesn't want to believe he isn't ok. It's heart breaking but also realistic.
I think its also important that this book showed that recovery isn't linear, you can still have bad periods while in therapy (as Charlie is) and it doesn't mean that you've failed. You're still worthy and loveable. I saw a parts of my teen self in both Tori and Charlie, and also in their school lives.
For me this book has such a focus on the characters, and so, I can definitely see why people wouldn't like it, because Tori would be hard to connect to if you didn't understand why she is the way she is. But for me, this book really made me cry and my teenage self would really have appreciated this book, and the lessons in it. Sometimes you just need to reach out to someone. They won't fix you, but they can try and help you fix yourself. Also sometimes it's easier to make yourself do something for another person. Again, not the best/healthiest coping mechanism, but I have done it a LOT in my life, and I finally realised I should be doing it for me, it just took a while.
Solitaire were really a secondary plot point for me, as I figured out who it was and why they were doing it early on but that didn't make it less interesting. It was intriguing watching Tori's experience of the pranks, seeing her learn how to feel something, and care about what was happening around her
There was a lot of development in her character done through parallels to Solitaire's actions so I enjoyed reading about them.
I had a very personal reading of this book, and so a lot of moments hit me quite hard. There's suicidal thoughts/feelings/actions, self harm, an eating disorder and bullying. They were hard to read about, and I cried multiple times reading this book. It wasn't an easy read and I can understand why Solitaire might not work for other people, but this felt personal and important to me. I'm not saying it 5 Stars because I didn't agree with everything in the book, and Tori was judgemental and sometimes awful - I know it's her character but still! But I really loved this book, and I have read it during a difficult patch, and connected to it on so many levels. I'm looking forward to reading more of Oseman's work, as this and Heartstopper have been a definitely hit for me!


The proliferation of social media throughout the book is well handled, as you would expect from such a young author and the writing style is straightforward but with a maturity that is also impressive in a writer of such a young age.
The story itself is quite slender and not overplotted but this only adds to the realism of the story. But these types of first person story stand or fall on whether or not you want to spend time with the main protagonist and in this case I did: Tori Spring is a very likeable protagonist and though her sometimes inexplicable bad moods can sometimes become a bit repetitive, this is exactly what being a teenager suffering from angst is like!
So, on the whole, this was an interesting, realistic and enjoyable read, if a little middle of the road for my tastes, but this could be a reflection of the YA nature of the book itself. But if you want an intriguing story about teenagers that's not filled with graphic violence and bad language but has a warm, relatable heart, then this could be for you.

I think Oseman’s writing was great, but the central character and her relationships didn’t quite ring true. She was too much of a stereotype trying not to be one.
I think Oseman’s books will probably improve as she writes more so I’d be interested to read a later novel of hers