Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

45 reviews

mysteriousokapi's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Death of parent, and War

Minor: Gun violence and Torture

anaspp2's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal death, and War

Moderate: Homophobia and Mental illness

antimony27's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Abandonment, and War

cianarae's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Murder, and War

Moderate: Miscarriage, Dementia, and Death of parent

Minor: Animal death, Slavery, and Pregnancy

breadwitchery's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Homophobia, Mental illness, and War

Moderate: Animal death, Gun violence, Suicide, Xenophobia, and Death of parent

Minor: Child death, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, and Slavery

redheadorganist's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious tense medium-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

4.0

3 different storylines, most of which have individual characters that are followed in each, it definitely isn't the easiest to follow. But I found it to be quite a page turner. A bit disappointed with the ending because a lot of questions with the one storyline were left unanswered. This book strikes me as one that is more about enjoying the story along the way and not necessarily getting a neat ending.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and War

wrackcity's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief and War

Minor: Gun violence, Homophobia, Mental illness, Torture, Vomit, Death of parent, and Abandonment

leahrosiee's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful reflective slow-paced

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

4.5

This is a story about amazement, literacy, time, and memory. Five characters show how stories are passed along through time. How a book, in their case the story of Cloud Cuckoo Land, can hold someone together through all the shit life is putting them through and connect them to people they will never know across the world and throughout time. 
Each character has so much in common despite such vastly different circumstances. 

I found myself more drawn to certain storylines than others, which made it a little slow. Anthony Doerr really said “I could go into heavy detail, and I will, I will go into heavy detail”. I cannot tell you how many pages were dedicated to two of the characters waiting for a war to begin. 
Despite that, there is no denying how expertly the author weaves stories together and what an incredible book this is. 
So …. I don’t know what to think. But I think I love it. 

Side note: if you aren’t already outraged by how little our society values librarians, this book will help solidify that for you, I promise.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Slavery, Violence, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Animal death, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, and Alcohol

ekmook's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional sad 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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, and Injury/Injury detail

giraffestickers's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Violence, Grief, Suicide attempt, and War