Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Het Negende Huis by Leigh Bardugo

101 reviews

jennamonaco's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Death, Addiction, Violence, Murder, Mental illness, Drug use, Drug abuse, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Rape, Physical abuse, Misogyny, and Blood

solypoly's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.0

God I’m sick of reading fantasy that’s extremely over the top “edgy” and “gritty” in a fake feeling way seemingly just to make it seem more “serious”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Pedophilia, Drug abuse, Sexual assault, Drug use, Gore, Blood, Body horror, Murder, Death, Misogyny, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Mental illness, Vomit, and Medical content

Minor: Antisemitism, Excrement, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Racism, and Sexism

nicolescottwv's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Mental illness, Death, Drug use, Sexual assault, Rape, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Blood

lscholling's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Mental illness, Drug abuse, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, and Drug use

wolfrosereads's review against another edition

dark mysterious

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Rape, and Mental illness

ginnymay's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Mental illness, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Sexual violence, Vomit, Addiction, Blood, Sexual assault, Violence, Death, Drug use, Gore, Grief, Rape, and Excrement

librarianlayla's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-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? It's complicated

4.25

I'll admit that the first half of this book was a pretentious slog with little flavour however due to my interest in the premise I persevered. The second half however really picked up and the characters personalities began to shine through more and the magic-infused murder mystery really kicked off.

I look forward to seeing how this ends. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcoholism, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Excrement, Gore, Grief, Mental illness, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Vomit, Drug use, Emotional abuse, and Adult/minor relationship

gadrial's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Rape, Torture, Sexual violence, Violence, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Sexual harassment, Self harm, and Medical content

b_lownds127's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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

5.0

I inhaled this book, downed it, devoured it in a frenzied few days. I am a mother of three and sleep is tenuous at our house, yet I stayed up late reading until the wee hours 3 nights in a row. I cringed, I sobbed, at one point while listening to the audiobook actually stood up and paced. It was excellent. 
It also needs trigger warnings for absolutely everything. Seriously, I don't even know how to classify some of the things that happened in here. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Addiction, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, Death, Domestic abuse, Excrement, Gore, Gun violence, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Minor: Antisemitism

ebonycantread's review against another edition

dark 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Rape, and Sexual content

Moderate: Addiction and Mental illness