Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager

28 reviews

mvail98's review

3.0

dark tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Mental illness, Suicide, Murder

millyo's review

3.5

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism

Moderate: Addiction, Mental illness, Violence

elisalasater's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Violence, Stalking, Murder, Alcohol

Moderate: Child death, Drug abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Kidnapping, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis

caitlinastrid's review

3.5

dark mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Gaslighting, Alcohol

Moderate: Blood, Suicide attempt, Injury/Injury detail

corynmathieson's review

4.25

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism

Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Stalking, Murder

lwprice1209's review against another edition

1.0

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I liked the first 75% of this book, but the ridiculous plot twists made me want to throw it across the room towards the end. If you have more tolerance for literary shenanigans, then you might enjoy it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol

Minor: Suicide

kellpaul's review

3.75

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Murder

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Grief

Minor: Mental illness, Suicide

meltackett's review

2.0

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Interesting up until the stupid supernatural ending chapters that do not fit the rest of the story. Waste of time. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Grief, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

just_mrs_w's review against another edition

2.5

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I enjoyed the first half of this book a lot, thought I could see where it was going, really liked the unreliable narrator approach. But the second half and the

supernatural

twist just lost me. It wasn’t what I was expecting to get into and I’m not sure it fully worked. I’d be interested to read something else from this author though, as I did like writing style and the tension.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Murder

Moderate: Violence, Alcohol

Minor: Mental illness

baileynoel's review against another edition

3.0

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Self harm, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Alcohol