Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Gone to See the River Man by Kristopher Triana

47 reviews

zeegy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Enjoyed the way the mystery was revealed in short bursts, you think you know what it'll be and it'll throw you a curveball you hadn't even considered. By the end Lori truly got what she deserved.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, Body horror, Blood, Ableism, Vomit, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Rape, Murder, Mental illness, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Gaslighting, Excrement, and Death

cow4girl's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Mental illness, Murder, Body horror, Blood, Eating disorder, Suicide, Death, Incest, and Child death

mflynn8908's review against another edition

dark tense fast-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

3.0

Definitely a disturbing book with graphic content. Read with caution. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Grief, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicide, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Toxic relationship, Violence, Bullying, Eating disorder, Incest, and Sexual assault

horrorhayleigh's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

When I was told this would ruin my day I didn’t believe it but this did in fact ruin my entire day 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Abandonment, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Chronic illness, Death, Eating disorder, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Grief, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicide, Incest, Ableism, Blood, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, and Vomit

bkmason's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Rape, Racism, and Incest

Moderate: Ableism and Blood

Minor: Suicide and Eating disorder

waverlyloyd's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

this book was so insane and brutal and dark and disturbing that it feels wrong to give it any kind of rating. so I won’t. If you are easily disturbed, scared, or grossed out, do NOT read this book. It was gruesome and graphic and sick. Seriously the most disturbing book I have ever read. I found it fascinating and thrilling, and it’s pretty hard to shock me, but this book did just that. i’m thankful it was only 165 pages. im going to go and watch a disney movie now … :-)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Gore, Incest, Blood, Body horror, Death, Child death, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Torture, Medical trauma, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Murder, Rape, Self harm, Violence, and Toxic relationship

mothercoconuts's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

*I have no personal trauma and no “triggers” but this book has everything…..proceed with caution!!
My god. I am new to the horror genre and have read several categorized as such this year. But this book, THIS is horror. Truly. I finished this last week and can’t stop thinking about it. 
This tackles so much! The imagery is incredible, the gore is balanced, the story is so original, besides the obvious fantastical element it’s honestly quite logical, the writing is beautiful (beautifully gross, too) everything comes together perfectly at the end. 
Couldn’t give it anything but 5 stars. Just wow. I cringed so hard several times - readers on social media always rattle off books that messed them up or are insanely disturbing but this is the first one that checked those boxes for me! Wild wild wild. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Grief, Racism, Racial slurs, Blood, Child abuse, Mental illness, Death, Incest, Child death, Eating disorder, Gore, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, and Sexual assault

Minor: War

maximauve's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Child abuse, Torture, Sexual violence, Violence, Murder, Racism, Suicide, Child death, Rape, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Self harm, and Sexual assault

midnights's review against another edition

I really don’t even know if it’s possible for me to rate this. I spent this whole book feeling like I wanted to crawl out of my skin. Now that it’s over, I’m not even sure if I liked it. Just truly, truly grotesque and offensive to the senses. 

I did like the way it addresses the very real and extremely disturbing hero-like worship of serial killers that exists in our modern society in the wake of true crime’s rise. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Body horror, Sexual assault, Ableism, Blood, Incest, Murder, Rape, Sexual violence, and Violence

maggotea's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

2.25

ableism abounds in this novel. the racism, murder, and sexual assault are all viewed as negative, but the ableism is meant to make us sympathize with our main character. not the case for me, i would not recommend this one and will not be reading it again. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Racial slurs, Rape, Body horror, Torture, Violence, Gore, Physical abuse, Suicide, Ableism, Death of parent, Death, Medical trauma, Racism, Self harm, Sexual harassment, Eating disorder, Grief, Incest, Mental illness, Murder, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship