Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

163 reviews

phoebees's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This book changed me in the best way. A beautiful (haunting) exploration of obsession and addiction to art. the characters are intentionally relatable, but exaggerated in the way that only Shakespeare can. 
A love letter to Shakespeare obsessors, tormented queers, and emotionally unwell theatre kids. 
for fans of the marauders, any Shakespeare play, dead poets society, and dark academia <3

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Drug use, Drug abuse, Alcoholism, Blood, Mental illness, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Gore

Minor: Death, Eating disorder, and Homophobia

yzer2468's review against another edition

challenging dark funny mysterious reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Bullying, Cursing, Gaslighting, Blood, Alcohol, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Toxic friendship, Misogyny, Gore, Body horror, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Alcoholism, Mental illness, Drug use, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Sexism, Violence, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Eating disorder

Minor: Vomit, Homophobia, Forced institutionalization, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual harassment, and Sexual assault

theochick's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Holy SHIT dude

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Mental illness

Graphic depiction of an overdose

phantompansy's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Alcohol, Death, Violence, Alcoholism, and Grief

Moderate: Drug abuse and Mental illness

Minor: Fire/Fire injury and Gore

rubyslippers96's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Death, Grief, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Cursing, Drug use, Mental illness, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Suicide, Sexual content, and Eating disorder

booksandcat's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Drug use, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Murder, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Alcohol, Addiction, Blood, Bullying, Misogyny, Death, and Sexism

sabinehunter's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Bullying, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Death, Cursing, Grief, and Toxic friendship

belleoftheball13's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad 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? No

5.0

A beautifully crafted story that leaves you wondering who did it and why! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Murder, Addiction, and Death

Moderate: Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Drug use, and Mental illness

Minor: Physical abuse and Eating disorder

naoml's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

This book will forever be my favorite. I think it's genius and important. I will write an essay review later. All my love to Alexander, even if he's not the focus of the book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Death, Alcohol, Grief, and Blood

Moderate: Sexual content, Drug abuse, Addiction, and Toxic relationship

kiran__'s review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

I had high expectations for this book and it exceeded them. Each character was developed and interesting and he captured their change so well. The writing style was very fluid and easy wasy to read, however, as someone who has not read a lot of shakespeare, a lot of those lines went over my head. But overall it was an amazing book : it had an unexpected plot twist, it made me cry, it had very well written characters - its all i could ever want. However, i thibk i would get a lot more out of it if i read more shakespeare. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Toxic friendship, Violence, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Blood, and Alcohol

Moderate: Drug use, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, and Emotional abuse