Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

The Perfect Marriage by Jeneva Rose

10 reviews

anamustacho's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.0

This is an easy, quick read.
The ending was rushed.
It's basically a sort of mind fucking plot. But it isn't because a lot of it was predictable. I also found the setting wasn't clear and strange, as well as the plot having too many holes.

The cheating husband was an asshole. But he didn't deserve this ending.

Normal people would just divorce.

But I get it. I do.

Yet, it is just psychopathic.
The wife killed the misstress and framed her husband for it.
Her partner, who she ends up having a kid with and marrying a day after her husband's execution, also crazy

Up until the last hour everything felt rushed and chaotic. But that last hours in the story with the "plot"twist was rushed and just sick. 

Lastly this felt like a low budget bad murder mysterie show.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cursing, Drug use, Eating disorder, Grief, Infidelity, Death, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Gore, Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Misogyny, and Murder

disguisedposer's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

Ended up giving it a 2.5. I started reading it and almost dnf after the first couple of chapters but then had a long drive so put the audiobook on. Adam's chapters/narration kept me in, it was actually kind of funny in places (not sure if it was meant to be), but Sarah's chapters and narrator were not good. I would have evened it out with a 3, but the ending made me roll my eyes so hard I was in danger of driving off the road. (This scenario is more plausible than this book). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Death, Toxic friendship, Blood, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Violence, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Murder, Sexual content, and Suicide

tabea1409's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Gaslighting, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Misogyny, Domestic abuse, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Emotional abuse, Alcoholism, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Murder, Sexual content, Violence, Drug abuse, Pregnancy, Death, Death of parent, Mental illness, Sexism, Medical content, Gore, and Infidelity

julieslifelately_'s review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, Stalking, Body horror, Bullying, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Blood, Cursing, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Murder, Toxic relationship, and Violence

violetbentbackwards1036's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Abandonment, Cursing, Grief, Death, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Rape, Toxic relationship, Blood, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Gore, Stalking, Infidelity, Murder, Sexual content, Violence, Addiction, Alcoholism, Toxic friendship, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Emotional abuse

josiejeror's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.0

Not at all accurate to actual law/true crime but overall an exciting read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Police brutality, Suicide, Confinement, Cursing, Sexual violence, Stalking, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Grief, Murder, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Addiction, Suicide attempt, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Pregnancy

hayleyvharrington's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Blood, Death, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Suicide, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Pregnancy, Vomit, Grief, Infidelity, Murder, Sexual content, and Stalking

taryn_g's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Mental illness, and Infidelity

Moderate: Police brutality, Sexual content, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death of parent, Stalking, Vomit, and Suicide

pageafter_paige's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

3.5 rating solely because of the ending! One thing I hate about books is when you’re reading from the 1st person perspective, like from the characters thoughts, and their thoughts don’t end up matching the plot. Super early on I assumed Sarah was the killer and planned this all to get back at him, but after reading all her genuine reactions of concern and fear and unbelief that Adam could do this, I was like “okay not her I guess” but the last 30 pages it’s like just kidding! If that was her plan the whole time wouldn’t her thoughts be about that? I know the book wouldn’t have been the same if we had Sarah’s real thoughts, but this book was so hyped up for me I was expecting something crazy and was a bit disappointed. I did enjoy the writing a lot though and it had me glued to the book so even though I’m complaining it actually wasn’t bad

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Content Warnings

Minor: Murder, Police brutality, Blood, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Death, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Stalking, Alcohol, Physical abuse, Rape, Abandonment, Gaslighting, Cursing, Addiction, Death of parent, Drug use, Grief, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, and Violence

chloeforkerway's review against another edition

fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

1.0

This is easily the worst book I have ever read in my entire life. Jeneva Rose blew everyone out of the water with this, even Colleen Hoover! 

There was absolutely zero research on the law or the police force. One episode of Law & Order was watched to complete this monstrosity of a novel. I am glad that this was free and I did not pay for it because that would have been a complete waste of my working girl money. 

Here is a list of everything that I was confused about and/or also hated about this book: 

• The way Adam describes women
  • He only sees them as sex objects and he has a one-track mind when it comes to any woman
  • He kisses people for no reason and harassed them numerous times, it was sickening

• Adam Morgan is a literal monster
  • He attempts to justify cheating on Sarah (which seeing how Sarah ends up, he shouldn't have)
  • Adam is a complete and utter shame to any good man that has ever existed in all of human existence 
    • His drinking problem becomes a main aspect of the story for literally no reason. This novel consisted of a full chapter of him drinking, only for it to lead absolutely nowhere. 
    • He has NOOO brain! 
      • This man does stupid stuff for no reason - why do you trust every single person that steps into your life? You should know yourself what a trustworthy person is not based on your own personality. 
      • Adam, you can't even trust yourself, bro. 

• The worst plot twist I have ever read.
  • Think about any one character and it is probably them.
  • Happened in the last ten pages. 
  • I hate Sarah. 

• Each and every single one of these characters needs psychological help
  • Most of them are obvious, including, Adam, Sarah, Anne
  • Honorable mentions: Eleanor, Matthew, Bob, all of the police officers, Kelly, Scott, Rebecca

• Random flashbacks
• Details of Sarah being rich 
• Adam's failed writing career
• How long does this story go on? Like in a sense of time.
• Useless characters and metaphors
• Everyone sounds and looks the same
• Adam escaping 
• Ants and nature
• No man can keep it in his pants
• Again, the plot twist
• The four-in-one murders 
• Kelly
• The end of it
• Robert Miller

• Sarah mentions her being the best attorney and then she turns around and becomes the worst one by every second
  • her unprofessionalism
  • her terrible character
  • unreliable narrator, worse than Adam
  • wanting to have sex with every man in the book
    • uses her sex appeal to her advantage, but then embarrasses herself because it never works and she looks bad
  • NO man is worth this and she knows it

I hope no one suffers as much as I did by reading this!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Dysphoria, Alcoholism, Pregnancy, Police brutality, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Gaslighting, Addiction, Alcohol, Mental illness, Infidelity, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Classism, Death, and Death of parent