Reviews tagging 'Schizophrenia/Psychosis '

Magpie by Elizabeth Day

44 reviews

margaret_k30's review against another edition

Too anxiety inducing and was uncomfortable with some of the plot points. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Rape, and Pregnancy

lizzieiles's review against another edition

emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Miscarriage, Infertility, and Pregnancy

mve94's review

emotional tense slow-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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Mental illness, Miscarriage, and Infertility

rosiebethreads's review

challenging dark mysterious 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

3.0

I will never be sure where I stand on psychosis as a plot twist

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Infertility, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

lhamilton2835's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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

3.75

This was pretty twisty but more believable than many of the current stories like this. Lots of family dynamics. Worth a read.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic relationship, Miscarriage, Mental illness, and Infertility

bumble_abi's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

3.0

you can tell I'm not having a great time with my mental health because I'm reading mass market thrillers again 

this is blurbed as 'the most mind-blowing book of the year' which is the kind of hyperbole that can only set a book up for a fall. Marisa and her lovely boyfriend move in together and try to start a family, but Marisa is increasingly disturbed by the behaviour of their solicitous and overfamiliar lodger, Kate. There's a decent twist in this but it occurs only about a third of the way into the book, and then the rest is the long unraveling of how we got to that point, followed by a slightly too tidy ending.

This truly did feel like a book of two halves - the first half is great, tense and confusing and addictive, but it peaks too early and doesn't leave enough meat for the second half. There's not enough depth to any of it to justify its ultimate meandering. There's a (not graphic - the narrative voice just tells you it happened) rape scene which didn't have very much of a purpose in the plot except as a shortcut to creating a character who is unstable, which felt unnecessary and distasteful. I enjoyed it well enough but wouldn't rush to recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Infertility, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Mental illness

Moderate: Rape and Violence

stagasaurus's review

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Infertility, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Miscarriage

Moderate: Rape, Violence, and Gaslighting

tessalort's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Infertility, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Abandonment, Rape, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

velvet_young's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Infertility, Physical abuse, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy

Minor: Stalking

lucyyybee's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? No

2.5

This book… Um, don’t know where to start. It was boring, exciting plot twist, back to boring. But within all the boring was also just confusion.

Evil MIL who played small role in book ends up being the biggest issue? Somehow thinking the woman with bipolar / schizophrenia who tried to kill her sons girlfriend was a better fit for her son. Mind you, she’s very stuck up and uppity. So that makes no sense as her son is “perfect” and she would otherwise see Marisa as very flawed.

Also paints mental illness in an odd way. I don’t know. I forced myself through it hoping for a good ending. I was let down. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Alcohol, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Grief, and Infertility