Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

One by One by Ruth Ware

8 reviews

growfromit's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Death, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Murder

bessadams's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual assault, Confinement, Blood, Death, Mental illness, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcohol and Drug abuse

erkietheturkey's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• 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: Death

Moderate: Blood, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Cursing, Mental illness, Murder, Alcohol, Bullying, Grief, Violence, and Medical content

Minor: Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Child abuse, Toxic friendship, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Self harm, and Drug use

saliwali's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense 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? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Cursing, Bullying, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Alcohol, Classism, Sexual harassment, Body shaming, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

lorenmarie7's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

why make the murderer one of the only two POVs that we get? Obviously she’s going to be important.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Sexual assault, Murder, Death, Medical content, and Medical trauma

kalmed22's review against another edition

adventurous tense 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? Yes

2.5

Work group getting away to a ski chalet and then people start dying, an avalanche occurs, and things really go downhill (some literally).  This drug along and while the ending was satisfactory, it did not make up for pages of boring.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Murder, and Violence

parttimerarebookdealer's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, Torture, and Violence

coolmombeck's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

1.0

Highly disappointed and here is why:
1.) The story mirrored Lucy Foley's The Hunting Party and bits of The Guest List, so much so, that it was almost like a regurgitated version of both.
2.) The characters were all ridiculous and they had first world problems that nobody, including the readers, cared about.
3.) The part about the owl and the killer were ridiculous and made me think a word count was trying to be achieved. 
4.) It would never end (see the word count comment in #3).
5.) Ware is better than this.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Confinement, Sexual assault, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, and Death