Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Haunting Adeline by H.D. Carlton

165 reviews

melodyramirez's review against another edition

challenging dark tense

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Blood, Stalking, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Antisemitism, Sexual violence, Trafficking, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Murder, Sexual content, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Death of parent, Car accident, Child abuse, Cursing, and Death

Moderate: Cannibalism

er_inreads's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

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

3.0

I’m so concerned for my mental health because I really liked the idea of my own personal stalker that would fall instantly in love with me and convince me to fall in love with him. 

It would be my luck that I’d get the murdery type though. Disappointing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Sexual violence, Confinement, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Kidnapping, Trafficking, Child abuse, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Blood, Misogyny, and Mental illness

katiew221's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Death, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Misogyny, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Body horror, Mental illness, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Murder, Kidnapping, Car accident, and Violence

tabbycat10414's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Mental illness, Trafficking, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Sexual violence, Stalking, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Toxic relationship, Violence, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Sexual assault, Alcohol, Child abuse, Confinement, Gaslighting, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Misogyny, Gun violence, and Torture

zarakoconnor's review against another edition

challenging dark 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

1.0

This book is nothing more than a right wing incel’s fantasy. The FMC is obviously a self insert of the author, being an indie book author, but we never see her writing or anything to do with her being an author other than her telling us. The paranormal elements were not fleshed out at all, so what was the point of including them? Clearly this book is a knock off of Q anon, with the right wing hero ‘Z‘ painted as the hero when the author is doing nothing but perpetuating weird conspiracy theories based in antisemitism. Not to mention the gaslighting and abuse the FMC suffers at the hands of this “morally grey” MMC. He is morally black. There is no redeeming this book. 🗑️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Stalking, Murder, Mental illness, Gun violence, Violence, Sexual violence, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Rape

Though the author does flag sexual assault as a trigger warning, the author fails to mention that the abuse is heavily romanticised and glossed over as “romantic” or “unvoiced sexual desire”. Survivors or those triggered by sexual assault please be advised.

awil_23's review against another edition

dark sad tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Toxic relationship, Torture, Stalking, Sexual assault, Murder, Gore, Alcohol, Child abuse, Cannibalism, Rape, Child death, Trafficking, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Gun violence, Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Mental illness, and Fire/Fire injury

readyforit's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

3.5⭐️4🌶️
This is a dark, dark, dark romance that involves non-consensual sex scenes between FMC and MMC, her stalker. Do not read if you are not in the right headspace or have any of the triggers mentioned. I don’t think anyone should read this unless their frontal lobe has developed.. maybe not even then. It’s especially heavy on child sex trafficking. These parts were hard to read through. Honestly idk how to feel about the non-con relationship. You know it’s obviously wrong but you find yourself rooting for the antagonist in the end, trying to find any sort of silver lining. It’s like I got Stockholm syndromed too. I generally liked the plot, and I’ll read the sequel since it ended on a cliffhanger, but I probably won’t reread due to the intense dark themes. I’ve read dark romances before and they’ve always come with a little fluff to balance out the spice and darkness. This didn’t really feel like a romance to me, it was all based on her fear. There’s dark romance, and then there’s this book. I’d say MMC leans further black on the morally gray scale. If you took the “romance” out of this, it would be more of a thriller/mystery, so it got stars for that bc I liked that part of the plot.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, Rape, Stalking, Blood, Confinement, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Pedophilia, Trafficking, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Child death, Emotional abuse, Body horror, Gore, Physical abuse, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Alcohol, Mental illness, and Infidelity

Minor: Vomit

guns are used in spicy scenes, not just bc the character has a violent job

racheldacey's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Sexual assault, Trafficking, Child abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Torture, Murder, Death, Sexual content, Body horror, Kidnapping, Violence, Blood, Car accident, Cursing, and Pedophilia

ardc822's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Sexual content, Stalking, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Trafficking, Violence, Sexual assault, Child abuse, and Toxic relationship

taytay15's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

OMG where do I even begin! From the first chapter I was instantly drawn in to the mystery of this book. I don’t normally go for this type of novel but I’m so glad I decided to give it a try. Zade by far is the creepiest but sexiest character I have read that it was hard to not fall in love with him. This book does get very graphic so that warning in the very beginning is no joke. I don’t like cliff hangers normally but thank you Jesus that the second part is available. There were moments that made me say “WTF” multiple times and had to stop reading to give my mind a break but then there were other times that I just couldn’t stop. I highly recommend!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexual harassment, Trafficking, Sexual content, Slavery, Gore, Kidnapping, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Murder, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Stalking, and Child abuse

The author does give warning before starting the book. If you don’t read that but then find that the book is not what you want or like to read, you were warned ahead of time.