Reviews tagging 'Schizophrenia/Psychosis '

Ward D by Freida McFadden

71 reviews

whitneyfoster's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Blood, Murder, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, and Confinement

Moderate: Medical content

lifeofchrstnlvly's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Blood, Violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Mental illness, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Addiction, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Physical abuse, Child abuse, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Drug use and Dementia

adeavila's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Toxic friendship, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Death of parent, Mental illness, Blood, Death, Drug use, and Drug abuse

Minor: Dementia

azure_ecllpse's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

3.0

Thriller aspects were great. Finished this book in two sittings with the way it kept me on the edge of my seat - however, the lousy (arguably harmful) depictions of mental health and even addicts were really off putting.  This is the first book I’ve read by this author as she’s been highly recommended to me by many friends. I do hope to find the rest of her works don’t have the same problem. Mental health stigma is still a very real problem, and fictional portrayals contribute to that stigma so much more than we think. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Drug abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Addiction, Child abuse, and Ableism

ericanoll11's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Murder, Blood, Violence, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Forced institutionalization

kassidypf13's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Murder, Dementia, Forced institutionalization, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic relationship, and Death

aedoran08's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.5

Terrible depictions of mental health; especially from the author who is a practicing medical doctor. Even if it's fiction, all people in this story with mental illnesses were constantly referred to as "crazy" and depicted as violent. Even for the sake of fiction I couldn't get into this one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis and Mental illness

lexkazokas's review against another edition

challenging 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Mental illness, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Drug abuse

michelleub's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

3.0

Was this a Great Book? Nah. It was okey. Like nothing extraordinary. It was kind of hard to get into but it is fast paced so it was a nice easy read. Easy Peasy to go through

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Blood, Mental illness, and Violence

Moderate: Murder

meganholman0911's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Wow! 

I am shook!

The twists and turns in this book are insane! You honestly don’t know who to trust!

The dual timelines work perfectly and disguise the truth so well. You start to feel certain ways towards characters and then everything you thought you knew and predicted gets turned upside down.

The more the story develops the more connected you feel towards Amy and want her to get out alive.

Freida McFadden is definitely a must read author for me now!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Schizophrenia/Psychosis