Reviews tagging 'Death'

Ward D by Freida McFadden

150 reviews

zoedonn's review against another edition

3.75

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury

hotrichjew's review against another edition

3.5

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Blood, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis

aahegedus's review against another edition

5.0

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This was hands down the best book I’ve read this year!! My best friend growing up was in and out of psychiatric care, so pieces of this book felt very close to home. I could not put this down. I found every excuse to read this at even slivers of moments. I read this while pumping gas the other day. I had 100 theories about what was going on or where this book was headed and they were all wrong. This book was so suspenseful, kept you thinking, and was so captivating. 

My only question is and what I am confused about is (spoiler ahead) how and when did they kill Dr. Beck and Ramona of Damon was in seclusion prior to Amy coming to the unit? I know Jade got the door code but when and how?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Drug use, Dementia, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury

klandry98's review against another edition

3.25

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Toxic friendship

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Blood, Death of parent

Minor: Dementia, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment

becagracebookcorner's review against another edition

5.0

fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting

Moderate: Addiction, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury

moxiereads's review against another edition

4.0

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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The way mental health is portrayed in this is probably damaging to the actual community, but the story did get me. 

Frieda LOVES a last page plot twist, and the one here was very good. 

I definitely had some theories throughout, but I didn't actually manage to solve what was going on until right before the main character did. 

Again, I don't love the main characters this author tends to write and think they are sort of clueless and have no sense of self-preservation, but I didn't think Amy was nearly as bad as some I've read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail

zozo90's review against another edition

4.25

dark 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: Mental illness

Moderate: Blood, Murder

Minor: Death

coollawrence's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Toxic friendship

mchyd___'s review against another edition

3.25

mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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this book was a decent read. it felt repetitive at times “ peach iced tea” “ortho is competitive” … we get it, it’s some sort of breadcrumb 

other than that the book felt decent. decent pace. okay plot. ploy ending.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder

floatingbanana's review against another edition

4.75

dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Toxic friendship

Moderate: Bullying, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Ableism