Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Butcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver

50 reviews

mtnest's review against another edition

dark funny fast-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? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, Toxic relationship, Excrement, Gore, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Blood, Cannibalism, Cursing, Grief, Sexual content, Violence, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Torture, and Vomit

Moderate: Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, and Child abuse

mjspice's review

dark medium-paced

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

2.0

Look I get that some people have liked it and recommended (most likely because or the audiobook) but goddamn this really just wasn't for me and I don't think I'll be reading anything else like this ever.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Gore, Cannibalism, Murder, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Body horror, and Blood

sophieneedsahug's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious tense fast-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? Yes

4.5

🌶️🌶️🌶️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Vomit, Cannibalism, Pedophilia, Murder, Blood, Mental illness, and War

hldrn13's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious tense 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Stalking, Cannibalism, Body horror, Sexual content, Gore, Mental illness, Cursing, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

Moderate: Vomit

lunamorte33's review against another edition

dark funny lighthearted relaxing fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

I loved it! Even the messed up parts were hilarious. It was fun and I loved how it’s in a span of a couple years. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Mental illness, Torture, Child abuse, Death, Medical content, Violence, Murder, Stalking, Blood, and Cannibalism

It’s a love story about serial killers. Don’t expect them to be “normal”. She gouges eyes as her M.O.

tamaraloraine89's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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

I listened to this book on audible and loved it.  This book is best described as a dark spicy rom com that had it all.  Deep back stories with a past,  enemies to lovers vibes,  slow burn,  strong desire,  thick tension,  witty, clever,  funny,  emotional. And to top it off the narrators were duet and the way they played off each other was perfect, you could feel the chemistry, and that Irish accent! I thoroughly enjoyed it and I'm not a big fan of horror or gruesome things

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Cursing, Sexual content, Murder, and Blood

Moderate: Blood, Death, Violence, Torture, and Stalking

Minor: Body horror, Confinement, Death of parent, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Mental illness, Hate crime, Pedophilia, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Domestic abuse, and Medical content

Despite the long list of trigger warnings, a lot of them relate to mentioning a past trauma and the whole story is very light hearted. I don't feel like it makes light of murder however you are rooting for the main characters (who are by definition serial killers) but their 'prey' are well deserving of their punishment and the reasoning behind it is due to their own past traumas and ensuring others don't live the same fate. Very heart warming story

sariereads's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual content, Gore, Cannibalism, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Murder, Torture, Blood, Body horror, Kidnapping, Mental illness, and Death

allyf21's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cannibalism, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Blood, Gun violence, Torture, Sexual assault, Murder, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Cursing, Death, Gore, Sexual content, and Violence

dopabean_reading's review

dark funny lighthearted tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Torture, Vomit, Violence, Murder, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Mental illness, Cursing, Gore, and Body horror

Moderate: Mental illness, Kidnapping, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Stalking, and Confinement

Minor: Death of parent, Drug use, Sexual violence, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, and Child abuse

cclift1114's review

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-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? Yes

5.0

Dark, disturbing, fun, funny and romantic all in one book? Surprising, but true. While our two MC’s are both serial killers, they’re after other serial killers, so you gotta love that. And then they fall in love with each other? Even better. These two end up being relatable in a weird way and you root for them and care about them. And of course, I’m gonna appreciate the fact that the serial killers they go after are based on those from popular movies, such as Psycho, Silence of the Lambs and Texas Chainsaw Massacre. 

For sure check the trigger warnings and be prepared for the ick factor with gore and violence. But don’t be too scared away by the warnings about cannibalism; I promise our MC’s are not the ones enjoying it. 

On a side note, if you’re an audiobook listener, I’d highly recommend listening to this one. From all the audiobooks I’ve listened to, this one was unique because not only did they have two narrators for the MC’s, they were simultaneously narrating instead of just having the male narrator do everything in the chapter for Rowan and the female narrator for Sloan. So if you’re someone that doesn’t care for men try to do women’s voices or vice versa, you won’t have that with this book. Rowan’s narrator handles all his dialogue and Sloane’s all of hers. And the narrators are also just talented. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Cannibalism, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual content, and Torture

Minor: Vomit and Mental illness