Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

The Lost Village by Camilla Sten

79 reviews

jodine's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Hate crime, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Religious bigotry, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Ableism, Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, and Suicide attempt

casuallyreadingx's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Death, Murder, and Panic attacks/disorders

thebakerbookworm's review

dark mysterious tense medium-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? No

2.75

Okay, if you're looking for a spooky read, this book definitely fits the bill. It's the kind of book that I would not be able to handle in movie form—I couldn't stop listening to it because I just had to know what was happening or I wouldn't be able to sleep haha.

The narrator did a good job too. The blurb compares this book to two movies, and I think if I'd been familiar with those movies I probably wouldn't have read this...but honestly did not know what those movies were about lol. So this rating is my own fault; this genre is just not one that I particularly enjoy and, though I'm entertained while reading, I'm left with a "meh" feeling and a desire to start a different book immediately.

I was disappointed in the characters in this one. I never felt like I got to know any of them, not really. Even the main character doesn't have any tangible development. So I didn't really care about the characters as much as I would've liked. They made stupid decisions which of course had consequences and I just shrugged and kept reading.

Also, the "answer" to the mystery...was too unbelievable for me. I was left with a lot of questions about plausibility that I feel like were just ignored for the sake of the plot.

But like I said, this genre just doesn't do it for me—if you enjoy a good plot-focused mystery with spooky/creepy/horror elements, you'll probably like this one!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Torture

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Pregnancy, Rape, and Sexual assault

amandas_bookshelf's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Violence, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Physical abuse

Minor: Rape

pclairx's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Death, and Mental illness

Minor: Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Vomit

nightmare_maven's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, and Mental illness

herelieshenry's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Religious bigotry, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Murder, Pregnancy, and Rape

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Bullying, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Physical abuse, Abandonment, Death of parent, and Grief

Ableism against Autistic & Intellectually Disabled character including demonization,

rape, brutal murder,

and usage of mental age theory. There’s also demonization of schizophrenia & psychosis, including

characters shaming another for not forcing someone to disclose their schizophrenia, and a character being assumed violent due to having a history of psychosis

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ju_shi's review against another edition

dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

Moderate: Gaslighting and Mental illness

Minor: Rape

beholderess's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Mental illness, and Ableism

Moderate: Death

Minor: Alcoholism, Suicide attempt, and Self harm

archaicrobin's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

1.0

I have a real pet peeve about publishers marketing books incorrectly. This novel was described as a mix of Blair Witch and Midsommar and all I can say is how? There was nothing paranormal about this book at all, nothing creepy or eerie, it’s just another mediocre “crazy” cult book. I figured out the twist less than an hour into the audiobook, so the whole reading experience was me hoping I was wrong because the “twist” is dumb.  I was so excited to read this one, and despite some disappointing reviews I decided to still give it a try, I shouldn’t have. 

Alice is attached to this old village where her grandmother grew up. Alice heard all these stories and is enthralled with figuring out what happened to everyone in the village. Who stoned this lady to death? Where did everyone go? Why? To answer these questions Alice gathers a film crew made of friends and acquaintances with limited experience to travel to this town and film a documentary trying to figure out what happened. 

Weird but mundane things start happening, none of the characters are like able or even  seem like actual people. Alice is also absolutely the worst,  no redeeming qualities at all in my opinion. As the gang bumbles along they start to realize they might not be alone.  The story jumps back and forth between Now and Then. You see how this town starts to turn into a cult, kind of. It’s more like everyone wakes up one day and decides to just be psychos. The author tries to create a scenario where this whole cult thing makes sense, but it’s just too weak. “They all lost their jobs and this new hot guy says he’ll be their hot priest so now they’re a cult” isn’t really a good set up for me…

I did not enjoy this, I was disappointed and just kinda irritated honestly. Positives? The audiobook was great, very well done and the writing was also great. It was just everything else that sucked. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Death, Grief, Mental illness, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Violence