Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

White Trash Warlock by David R. Slayton

13 reviews

sashahc's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

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

5.0

Queer SFF is one of few areas where there aren’t a lot of queer male writers, so today meet “White Trash Warlock” by David Slayton.  It’s a bit misnamed, in my opinion, implying a more lighthearted #book than it is.  It’s an urban fantasy starring a 20 something gay low-powered magic user living in a trailer park in Oklahoma who needs to solve a mystery and save his family.  LOTS of trigger warnings in this one, but the characters and plot are very compelling and it’s got relatively rare class diversity.  Not a cozy, but the MC has a sweetness that you don’t usually see in urban fantasy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Child abuse, and Mental illness

Moderate: Death of parent and Child death

quinnyquinnquinn's review

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Forced institutionalization, and Child abuse

Moderate: Homophobia, Murder, Mental illness, and Alcoholism

Minor: Drug use, Misogyny, and Domestic abuse

booksthatburn's review against another edition

The way the love interest is handled started to feel like copaganda. It sucks, because otherwise I was enjoying the story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Gore

Moderate: Murder, Alcoholism, Gun violence, Violence, Death, Abandonment, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, Miscarriage, and Suicide

Minor: Excrement, Torture, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Ableism, Cursing, Misogyny, Homophobia, Child abuse, and Drug use

ciaranessa's review

adventurous dark funny medium-paced

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

4.5

It’s an absolutely wild ride from start to finish, and I can’t be happier I was along for the adventure.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Child abuse

Minor: Miscarriage

The things I tagged for trigger warnings are by no means an exhaustive list

zoeyzebra's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Generally kept me entertained, but I could have done without the copaganda, and sometimes the pacing vacillated between quite fast and rather slow.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, and Violence

Moderate: Homophobia, Mental illness, Murder, and Physical abuse

creativechaos's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Body horror

Moderate: Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, Miscarriage, and Violence

the_great_tumbleweed's review

adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

A really refreshingly different fantasy story! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, and Confinement

cattails's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Alcoholism, Confinement, Homophobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Mental illness

littlesmaug's review

adventurous dark funny tense medium-paced

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

5.0

HOLY. CLIFFHANGER. BATMAN.

I’ll have an actual review up on my blog and edit this review later to link it but WOAH. This book was all kinda of amazing. As a tarot reader, using the deck to actually see the future was *chef’s kiss.* I mean just all kinds of phenomenal. Again: WOAH. I read as an audiobook and the narration was nearly FLAWLESS. I’ll need a physical copy. I’ll also need to listen to book 2 ASAP.

https://littlesmaug.wordpress.com/2022/01/31/review-white-trash-warlock-by-david-r-slayton/

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child abuse, Forced institutionalization, and Murder

Moderate: Miscarriage, Domestic abuse, and Mental illness

Minor: Drug use and Alcohol

flowerparrish's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

AMAZING. PHENOMENAL. A TRIUMPH. 

Deeply invested and cannot WAIT to read/listen to the next in the series. Astoundingly good start for the first book in a series. World building is cool as fuck, blending traditional and innovative fantasy elements in an urban (and country) setting. Use of alternating POV and flashbacks added to the mystery and suspense brilliantly. 

Also, audiobook narration was flawless? Some of the best I've heard. 

Content warnings for: miscarriage, mental illness, (forced) institutionalization, child abuse, domestic abuse, murder

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Murder, Body horror, Child abuse, Physical abuse, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Miscarriage, Mental illness, and Homophobia

Minor: Drug abuse and Drug use