Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Family Business by Jonathan Sims

8 reviews

mistrum_crowe's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

• 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Mental illness, Death, Death of parent, Murder, Stalking, Body horror, and Grief

Moderate: Drug abuse, Deportation, and Addiction

nebulous_cat's review

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Body horror, Death, Abandonment, and Gore

Moderate: Alcohol, Police brutality, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Child death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Addiction, Stalking, Cancer, Excrement, and Mental illness

iamastraythought's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Mr. Sims you have done it again. Diverse in that way that isn't really mentioned, horrifying in both a soul crushing and mundane way. 

this book is like the lonely on steroids. Of course it's a separate media, but all the same.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Blood, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Suicide, Addiction, Body horror, Cancer, Stalking, and Mental illness

Minor: Bullying

reginacattus's review

dark mysterious tense 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Gaslighting, Gore, Medical content, Mental illness, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Body horror, Drug use, Grief, Terminal illness, Violence, Confinement, and Death

hcneysuckle's review

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Blood, Torture, Violence, Grief, Body horror, Mental illness, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Child death, Cancer, Classism, Drug abuse, Dysphoria, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

misszoe's review

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cancer, Murder, Child death, Death, Police brutality, Violence, Grief, Mental illness, Death of parent, Gore, and Addiction

Moderate: Confinement, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Bullying

gracecrandall's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad fast-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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Death, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Murder, Gore, Confinement, Grief, Mental illness, Police brutality, Torture, Violence, Body horror, Physical abuse, Blood, and Classism

mainstbooksmonroe's review

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Mental illness, and Death