Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Little Stranger by Leigh Rivers

144 reviews

dark tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense 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: Yes

Amazing read. The story and characters just creep under your skin. Your emotions will get put through the wringer on this one so be prepared with snacks and a squishie. Check the TW

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dark fast-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

This would have been a DNF if I had to physically read this book. Like with my own eyes…
The only reason I got through it is because the narration was the fucking best. 
A duet which was a surprise. 
The best way a book like this could be done in my opinion. 
listen to this book was not easy and made my skin crawl, but…
It was kind of like… studying the brain of psychopaths and listening to their ramblings.

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challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

I don't usually post reviews but like...What. The. Heck!? 
Okay firstly to those being all "oh he's just like Zade Meadows from Haunting Adeline" Excuseeeeeee me?! Malachi makes Zade look like a fluffy unicorn squishmallow 🦄  

Secondly; My brain had to blur out everytime they called each other brother and sister because...well, I shouldn't have to explain myself on that one.. 😅 

I will say that the amount of spice was like a 100000000000380 out of 10 and went from teehee to screwdriver real quick! 

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dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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dark emotional sad fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This should have stayed on Wattpad. But the smut was good 🤷🏻‍♀️ 

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dark emotional sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated

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dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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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challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I don't know how to feel after finishing this. It's dark, graphic and not for the faint of heart.

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dark fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

While I do enjoy a good dark romance from time to time, this was just not it. 
There just was no plot and in my opinion this was the dealbreaker for me here. 
Even though I kind of felt sorry for Malachai because of his mental illness all of his behaviour was attributed to it but nobody ever does anything about it. Not even Olivia even after she says that this is a problem of his.

The idea behind it is not bad, but unfortunately as said it is missing the plot.

I heard very good things about the audiobook though and the snippets I listened to were amazing so maybe I will listen in on that someday.

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