Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

5 reviews

alyssapusateri's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child death, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Infertility, Miscarriage, Animal death, and Blood

Moderate: Mental illness, Abandonment, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Death of parent

Minor: Fire/Fire injury and Violence

goldenlake's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Mental illness, Abandonment, and Infertility

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Death of parent, Blood, Death, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcohol

connierose86's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing sad slow-paced

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

5.0

This has to be one of the most beautiful books I’ve ever read. I felt my own personal grief understood in these pages.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Grief, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Animal cruelty, Abandonment, Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Suicide attempt, Miscarriage, and Gore

Moderate: Alcoholism, Pregnancy, Infertility, and Alcohol

issamay's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Child death, Mental illness, and Infertility

Moderate: Death of parent and Pregnancy

aerietta's review against another edition

I got just over half-way through the book.

It's an interesting story with a surprise at every turn, but it's just so grim. The little details are beautiful, but it feels like the characters chose to be miserable and are willing to fight to remain miserable, even when good things come up. It just became too hard to continue reading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Animal death, and Death

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Infertility, and Mental illness

Suicidal ideation, stillbirth, extreme financial insecurity, extreme injury, gaslighting, isolation.