Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty

47 reviews

lydderbox's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective tense medium-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Child death, and Mental illness

dblue236's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious tense medium-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

4.0

While the mystery/thriller aspect of this book fell a bit flat in the last third or so of the book, I still found it wildly entertaining and quite often darkly funny, and I loved it overall. I would have liked just a little more of a creepiness factor, maybe a little more of a sinister feel to the antagonist, but that's a pretty minor complaint and I definitely got everything I expected out of this book based on things I've read from this author in the past. I look forward to watching the TV series to see how it compares. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Drug abuse, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Mental illness, Sexual content, Child death, Confinement, Death, and Self harm

Minor: Pregnancy, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Body shaming, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Eating disorder, Cancer, Terminal illness, Infertility, Medical content, and Medical trauma

aseel_reads's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-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

3.75

This was a wild ride, it definitely took a turn around 75% and then the plot speed up and so many things happened. Not the biggest fan of that pacing but it was pretty entertaining. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Drug abuse, Medical content, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Bullying, Body shaming, Confinement, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Child death, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug use, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

fink1129's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Dysphoria, Drug use, Grief, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

rngaines14's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Suicide, Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Addiction, Drug use, Child death, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Grief, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Forced institutionalization, Fire/Fire injury, Death, and Confinement

katara42's review against another edition

lighthearted mysterious relaxing slow-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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicide, and Drug use

Moderate: Drug abuse and Body shaming

lillyrose97's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny inspiring reflective 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: Medical trauma, Torture, Alcohol, Death, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Grief, Addiction, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic relationship, and Child death

evalante's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful reflective 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: Child death, Death, Addiction, Drug use, Mental illness, Drug abuse, and Suicide

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Fatphobia, Confinement, and Eating disorder

meenalgarg's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted mysterious medium-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Mental illness, and Child death

kirstenpod_'s review against another edition

mysterious slow-paced

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

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Body shaming, Self harm, Suicide, Confinement, Mental illness, Death, Drug use, and Grief

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, Suicide attempt, Fatphobia, and Eating disorder