Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

The Favor by Suzanne Wright

32 reviews

prettynerdy3's review

challenging emotional hopeful 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

Graphic: Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Cursing, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Abandonment, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Mental illness, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Suicide, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Infertility, Abortion, Bullying, Cursing, Suicide, Vomit, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Gaslighting, Death of parent, Grief, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Blood, Child death, Child abuse, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Stalking, and Violence

knl0819's review

2.75

This book had so much potential! It bums me out that I didn’t really enjoy this book but I just felt like it was too long and we skipped a lot of bonding moment. There were several time jumps within the book which I get to an extent since it’s supposed to be almost a year if their lives but we only saw them go on two dates and two trips to her parents house in the whole book! Like about 100 of the pages were full of the FMC’s internal dialogue. Which would be fine if she wasn’t second guessing and talking herself out of think Dane cared for her. Like she knows he isn’t the most emotional guy and is totally fine with that. Yet he literally was showing some very high levels of care for her but she would be like “oh he is just pretending and playing the husband” or being like “that was so caring of him but don’t think he cares about you” which was okay at first but got frustrating. I kinda enjoyed all the family drama and people on both sides trying to break them up BUT the amount of times Vienna got upset because she thought he cheated was very upsetting. Like she is so smart but she knows that several people are actively plotting to split them up yet is so quick to try to walk out of the deal. I also feel like this book is slightly misrepresented. There is a lot of dark stuff that gets mentioned in this book like mental illness, drug addiction, child abuse, extortion, and discussion of violence. This book felt almost like it was on the edge of dark romance. Think twisted lies by Ana Huang vibes but more frequent. There were some moments that felt like they were played for jokes but were ultimately not that funny. It’s sucky cause I love the MCs and felt that all the potential was there but was so missed. We barely saw them together like we got told about all of these moments after the fact. I never understood the idea of telling not showing but quickly understood that by 35%. Nothing really happens until about that point in the book anyway then it slows right back down until about 60%. I started skimming at about 70%. The breakup attempts drama pulled me back at 80%. Then I skimmed agin to the end.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse and Mental illness

Minor: Child death, Violence, Death of parent, Suicide, and Addiction

culzean's review

dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Grief, Infertility, Child death, Cursing, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Classism, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Stalking, Suicide, Body shaming, Gaslighting, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Death of parent, and Violence

yjakmouj's review

dark emotional hopeful fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Violence, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Mental illness, Grief, Domestic abuse, Child death, and Death of parent

yoohanna's review

relaxing medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Mental illness, Child death, and Death of parent

carla20's review

dark 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? No

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Vomit, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

yunjati's review

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted relaxing sad 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? No

5.0

Indeed the healthiest couple ever. The sex was crazy, i thought ive read the hottest smut before but this was different. Great communication tho, i love them. Eventho the age gap was probably 10years, but it's nothing. Dane- whatever you say handsome. 💗💗💗

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Emotional abuse, Stalking, Sexual content, Abandonment, Bullying, Cursing, Drug use, and Mental illness

This book is hot as hell thank you tiktok

clara01's review

hopeful lighthearted relaxing medium-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

3.0

This book was okay, I would recommend if you want something quick and easy to read.
I was slightly disappointed that there was no real plot. The characters repeatedly went over the same petty issues throughout the book and nothing else happened. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Child abuse

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and Mental illness

Minor: Sexual harassment, Stalking, Pedophilia, and Car accident

nerdyroop's review

lighthearted medium-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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Mental illness, and Sexual content

chloeleigh95's review

funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted 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? No

4.0

4⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️& 2 🌶️🌶️ well this turned out to be a good and unexpectedly sexy read. I loved the characters and the FMC & MMC snarky comments. The story mirrored that of “the proposal” movie, if the male and female roles had been reversed. I did a mix of audio book and ebook for this read and I also enjoyed the narration although I do prefer dual male female narration as a rule. The spice was vanilla but very well done. I loved the happy ending and character development. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Mental illness, Alcohol, Child abuse, Abortion, and Vomit