Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

The Broken Vows by Catharina Maura

19 reviews

jucolo's review

Yeah, my friend Celeste is pretty badass. If you cheat on her, she’ll frame you and have you ARRESTED for corporate espionage.

Okay this book was insane??? Silly little me, thinking her friend Lily actually made it her life’s mission to take down Zane after how he treated Celeste their whole childhood. I thought she gathered intel from the inside to have Zane arrested and then lied about boinking him to Celeste when she killed herself. 

NOPE! She actually just had BPD and a made up disease that made her think she was in a relationship with Zane. Celeste really DID frame him for corporate espionage. HAHAH How was no one absurdly proud of her for that? What a badass.

Also, I’m all for angst but a good 30% of this book could’ve been cut. Per usual, I think someone should’ve helped Maura tighten up the plot. Oh well. Still fun!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Grief

andeng's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Infidelity, Suicide, Bullying, Sexual content, and Mental illness

Moderate: Medical content

kayemreads's review

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Suicide, Death, and Mental illness

jasbeingjas's review

emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

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

4.25

I went into this pretty sure that Zane and Celeste would be my least favorite couple in the series, but surprise surprise, my heart broke so terribly reading this book for both of them and I was not prepared.  This was a great installment in the series.  It's also the longest book in the series and I was also worried it would drag, but it didn't really.  There was a lot to this relationship and honestly given that there was so much trust that needed to be rebuilt I'm glad the book was longer so that it didn't feel like it just happened overnight.  Or like some switch flipped and suddenly they both decided to suddenly be in love again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Death of parent

erinmd156's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad tense slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Suicide, Mental illness, and Infidelity

Moderate: Death of parent

amandafooteauthor's review

emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Grief

Moderate: Suicide, Mental illness, and Infidelity

readabowlly's review

emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Suicide, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Grief and Mental illness

jfv's review

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Mental illness

caitmitt's review

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

Another great book,

unfortunately is has one of my most disliked tropes of not communicating from the start and causing years of heartache for MCs

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Death of parent, and Mental illness