Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Ward D by Freida McFadden

87 reviews

whitneyfoster's review

dark emotional tense fast-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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Blood, Murder, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, and Confinement

Moderate: Medical content

literarywhore's review

dark mysterious 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, Drug abuse, Mental illness, and Murder

lifeofchrstnlvly's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Blood, Violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Mental illness, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Addiction, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Physical abuse, Child abuse, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Drug use and Dementia

adeavila's review

dark mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Toxic friendship, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Death of parent, Mental illness, Blood, Death, Drug use, and Drug abuse

Minor: Dementia

ericanoll11's review

dark fast-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Murder, Blood, Violence, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Forced institutionalization

kassidypf13's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Murder, Dementia, Forced institutionalization, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic relationship, and Death

aedoran08's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.5

Terrible depictions of mental health; especially from the author who is a practicing medical doctor. Even if it's fiction, all people in this story with mental illnesses were constantly referred to as "crazy" and depicted as violent. Even for the sake of fiction I couldn't get into this one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis and Mental illness

livlovread's review

challenging dark reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Mental illness, and Confinement

bookedandbusy's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

I really enjoyed this one! It had me hooked from the start as always and I could not stop reading! Her plot twists are always incredible and I did partially guess it this time! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Ableism, Mental illness, Addiction, Blood, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Medical content, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Suicide, Murder, and Body shaming

sharlapeggy's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Wow. What a book. Brilliant. I’m still reeling. Twists and turns galore. One of the best Freida McFadden books I’ve read so far!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child abuse, Dementia, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Abandonment, Ableism, Addiction, Blood, Confinement, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, and Medical content