Reviews tagging 'Schizophrenia/Psychosis '

A Song of Wraiths and Ruin by Roseanne A. Brown

2 reviews

corriejn's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No

4.25

First two thirds or so of this book were great: skilled worldbuilding, introduction of characters and storylines that were destined to clash. However, things fall a part a bit when the author actually gets to resolving how those various storylines interact and resolve. Brown seems to want to be N. K. Jemisin, but falls short. Too many flat, undeveloped characters who pop in to be major parts of the narrative, too many twists and turns that aren't foreshadowed or a logical part of the story, but just tossed in and basically rewrite the worldbuilding and characters that were more skillfully introduced earlier. I don't plan to read the rest of this series. It started off really promising through most of this volume, but ended up a jumbled mess.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Classism, Death, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Death of parent, Grief, Kidnapping, Racism, Self harm, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Child abuse, Alcohol, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Vomit, and Physical abuse

Minor: Cannibalism, War, and Torture

ka_ke's review

adventurous medium-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? No

3.0

I really wanted to like this book. It started off strong, but by about halfway through I figured out the twist and got bored. I don’t think I will be reading the sequel unfortunately. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Classism, Colonisation, Death of parent, Death, Grief, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Religious bigotry, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Violence