Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

かがみの孤城 by Mizuki Tsujimura, 辻村深月

63 reviews

yzadalawatatlo's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring sad

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

I have one thing to say... Found Family.
Also Mental Health and Friendship. 
Okay, that's three things. 

This book CURED my book slump. I found the writing easy to follow, and the characters are easy to tell apart since they have distinct personalities.

Though, I feel as tho Rion isn't as developed as the rest of the characters. I suppose the Author hid some of his actions because of his relationship with the Wolf Queen. I still loved him, yes, but I would have wanted to see more of him.

On the tag of the book, it said that it was Slow-paced but I didn't particularly find it slow. I finished it in less than a day. 
 
The ending of this book. omg. I did not FUCKING SEE THAT HOLY SHIT THE PLOT TWIST??!?! TO DIE FOOOOOR
THE ENDING WAS CRAFTED SO WELL I COULD HARDY SEE THE WORDS DUE TO ALL THE TEARS MWAH MWAH MWAH

I can't exactly rate this book yet since I feel that I'm not in the right mind to rate it yet. (in a book hangover due to all the crying I did) But I highly recommend this book. Especially If you're looking for escapism (so did they), and a friendship/Family to fall for. 

+I recommend Listening to "Keep Holding on" From Glee in the Climax. (From the title of the song you should know I'm referring to), Also "Somewhere Only We Know" is Also from Glee (I just prefer the glee version, sue me). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Bullying, Child death, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, and Adult/minor relationship

rhm04's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Bullying, Child death, Child abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Emotional abuse, Death, and Mental illness

Moderate: Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Suicide, and Cancer

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

lavendl's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, and Mental illness

Moderate: Terminal illness, Adult/minor relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexual assault

unoriginalinspiration's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious relaxing sad 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

3.5

 “If somebody manipulated your thoughts and feelings, would you still be the same person as before?” 

Trigger Warnings:
Bullying, Mental Illness, Child Death, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Panic Attacks, Child abuse

Review:
The first thing I want to say about this book was that I was not the target audience for it. While being an amazing read for an early adolescent, It didn't tick all the boxes I wanted/expected it to. Being a huge fan of Japanese Literature, I feel like this book could've used a lot more substance, the substance being violence maybe? or something  devastating?  The 'plot twists' were namesake and dull. This being said, this is definitely still an amazing book for the people it was actually written for. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Mental illness

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual assault, and Child death

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders

booklannah's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Mental illness

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Child abuse, and Child death

majas's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Mental illness

Minor: Child abuse

raenyreads's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

I absolutely loved this book, I went in with high expectations and it exceeded them! I loved the characters and the mystery and how it all came together at the end. I was also proud of myself for figuring some mysteries out before it was revealed - this all added to my thorough enjoyment of the story!

Reread: Upon rereading this a couple years later I think this was more of a 4 star read as already knowing the mystery took a little bit of the suspense out of it, making it feel a lot more slow paced.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying

Moderate: Child abuse, Terminal illness, and Mental illness

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Chronic illness, and Death

a_h__'s review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Mental illness

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, and Terminal illness

squilvia's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

Truly an amazing book. The writer is so clever at creating a book with magical realism that it felt like I'm watching a Ghibli film. 

It was worth noting that all the protagonists in this book are children. The idea of children dealing with adult problems such as death, poverty, bullying, abuse, and mental illness gave me a new perspective in life. We rarely talk about this but children too can be very brave. 

The whole story interwoven beautifully until the end that I find myself wishing that somehow, somewhere there is a castle waiting to glow for every children out there who find themselves hard to fit in. Especially a woman like Mrs Kitajima around them. 

I gave this book 5/5 stars and hope to reread it in the future.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Mental illness

beautifulpaxielreads's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Death, Grief, Mental illness, and Violence

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Medical content, Medical trauma, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship