Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

De laatste zomer by Dana Mele

4 reviews

hollyk's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

My brain is spinning, I'm shook to the core, there's not a hero and a villain so much as a group of flawed individuals. Absolutely riveting, jaw dropping, twisty, turny, and hard to put down.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Alcohol, Forced institutionalization, Confinement, Cursing, Violence, Death, Infidelity, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Mental illness

Moderate: Animal death, Murder, Drug abuse, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Homophobia, Sexual content, Vomit, and Classism

simplyammee's review against another edition

sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

The idea is good but unoriginal and this definitely isn't a great, fresh spin on it. The writing itself isn't bad, the twists are probably good if you don't pick up on the obvious hint in the blurb. It wasn’t so in my face obvious that I hated reading it, but it felt like the blurb spoiled any chance I had at actually being surprised. 

The "Haunting of Hill House" bit in the blurb is a bit too on the nose that it makes everything kind of obvious...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Animal death

Minor: Vomit

_courtney's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-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? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Body horror, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, and Mental illness

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Animal death, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, and Panic attacks/disorders

bookedandbusy's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-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

5.0

This book was incredible! So spooky and suspenseful and that plot twist was wild! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Stalking, Mental illness, Death, Confinement, Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Blood, Infidelity, Grief, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Kennedy sees ghosts and their descriptions can be upsetting to some

drowning is mentioned several times

Emily drugs everyone with Chelsea’s sleeping pills, she puts them in the wine, it’s also implied something was put in a bottle of wine Emily almost drank.